The ancient Indus systems of sewerage and drainage that were developed and used in cities throughout the Indus region were far more advanced than any found in contemporary urban sites in the Middle East and even more efficient than those in many areas of Pakistan and India today.
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All the houses had access to water and drainage facilities.
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The people of the Indus Civilization achieved great accuracy in measuring length, mass, and time. They were among the first to develop a system of uniform weights and measures. Their measurements are said to be extremely precise; however, a comparison of available objects indicates large scale variation across the Indus territories.
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Eleven drilled molar crowns from nine adults were discovered in a Neolithic graveyard in Mehrgarh that dates, from 7,500-9,000 years ago. According to the authors, their discoveries point to a tradition of proto-dentistry in the early farming cultures of that region.
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Many crafts "such as shell working, ceramics, and agate and glazed steatite bead making" were used in the making of necklaces, bangles, and other ornaments from all phases of Harappan sites and some of these crafts are still practiced in the subcontinent today.
Etc etc etc. Ik heb het zelf nog niet helemaal doorgelezen, maar het is mindblowing.
[add] Dit gaat over 2600-1900 voor Christus.
Oh wat enorm cool. Ik houd van dat soort ontdekkingen!
Doet me denken aan Mesopotamia. Was dat niet ongeveer in dezelfde tijd of iets later? Die waren heel ver voor Christus ook al erg ver gevorderd.
Sumer, located in southern Mesopotamia, is one of the earliest known civilizations in the world.
It lasted from the first settlement of Eridu in the Ubaid period (late 6th millennium BC) through the Uruk period (4th millennium BC) and the Dynastic periods (3rd millennium BC) until the rise of Babylon in the early 2nd millennium BC. The term "Sumerian" applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language.
The mansion is renowned for its size and utter lack of any master building plan. According to popular belief, Sarah Winchester thought the house was haunted by the ghosts of individuals killed by Winchester rifles, and that only continuous construction would appease them.
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There were countless staircases that led nowhere; a blind chimney that stopped short of the ceiling; closets that opened to blank walls; trap doors; double-back hallways; skylights located one above another; doors that opened to steep drops to the lawn below; a door that drops 10 feet (3.0 m) to a kitchen below; and dozens of other oddities. Even all of the stair posts were installed upside-down and many of the bathrooms had glass doors on them.
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The house was initially advertised as being 148 rooms, but so confusing was the floor plan that every time a room count was taken, a different total came up.
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known "mechanical computer") designed to calculate astronomical positions.
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"This device is just extraordinary, the only thing of its kind. The design is beautiful, the astronomy is exactly right. The way the mechanics are designed just makes your jaw drop. Whoever has done this has done it extremely carefully."
I pulled over to the side and felt no time
Off the highway with the landscape aglow
Still not sure what we were trying to find
I only know we went home
I pulled over to the side and felt no time
Off the highway with the landscape aglow
Still not sure what we were trying to find
I only know we went home
Het coole aan bij de westkust wonen is dat er een hele grote Aziatische invloed is. Overal zijn lekkere Aziatische restauranten. Thais eten is ook erg lekker.
Ohja gaaf Thailand en Cambodja lijken me echt gaaf om eens heen te gaan. Als je lang genoeg blijft spaar je je reiskosten er ook uit met cheap onderdak en eten/drinken
Dat heeft de gitarist van mijn band laatst gedaan. Die was naar Bulgarije gegaan en tussendoor gewoon gratis met allemaal mensen gechilld. Best wel cool idee.
I pulled over to the side and felt no time
Off the highway with the landscape aglow
Still not sure what we were trying to find
I only know we went home
Black holes, unlike the common image, do not act as cosmic vacuum cleaners any more than do other stars. When a star evolves into a black hole, the gravitational attraction at a given distance from the body is no greater than it was for the star. That is to say, were the Sun to be replaced by a black hole of the same mass, the Earth would continue in the same orbit. Due to a black hole's formation being explosive in nature, the object would lose a certain amount of its energy in the process, which according to the massenergy equivalence means that a black-hole would be of lower mass than the parent object, and actually have a weaker gravitational pull.
Only when one is close to a black hole (within the radius of the body which formed it) will the gravitational attraction become greater than the parent body's.
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Searing meat does not "seal in" moisture, and in fact may actually cause meat to lose moisture. Rather, meat is seared to create a brown crust and to add a rich flavor.
En deze is best wel logisch, maar ik voel me nu heel stom omdat ik het gisteren nog zo aan m'n oppaskindjes heb uitgelegd: Quote:
The lunar phases are not caused by the Earth's shadow (lunar eclipses, by contrast, are). Instead, as the Moon orbits Earth, we see its illuminated half from differing angles in relation to the Sun.
Ik moet maar doorlezen, er is vast nog veel meer dat ik fout heb.
Dat van dat zwarte gat heb ik een keer geprobeerd uit te leggen aan iemand die toen voor de 3e keer weer over de LHC begon te miepen, maar het wilde er niet in helaas.
My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds.. pretty standard, really.
