Pint: Liquid or dry measure The word 'pint' is usually associated with a hearty beer in an English pub: it is more than half a liter. The word comes from the old French 'pinte', which may have its origin in Latin and this measure of content was once common in large parts of Europe and North America.
Category: History
They have endured numerous eras and offer a glimpse into the very beginnings of civilization and into the lives of modern city people. Immerse yourself in our list of the five oldest inhabited cities in the world. Maybe you have ever been there. Number 5 Rey, Iran - ca. 3000 BC. Proofs of habitation have been found that date back to 6,000 v.
Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 1:00 pm: Mario Sepúlveda closes himself to the noise with earplugs and thinks about his family while he chops away stones mechanically. Until earplugs and daydreams can no longer exclude reality ... Rocks and boulders suddenly fall down around Mario Sepúlveda.
25 April 1986, 10 p.m., Prypjat, Ukraine The 50,000 inhabitants go to bed. Many work in the nearby nuclear power plant. "Are you coming with me comfortably?" the young engineer Sasja Juvjenko asks his wife from the kitchen in their house. He poured coffee and lit a cigarette. In 45 minutes his night shift starts at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
33,000 Years ago: Lunar Calendar Mathematics born in Africa Africa is the cradle of humanity, and mathematics took its first tentative steps here. In the Lebombo Mountains in present-day Swaziland, the so-called Lebombo bone was found in 1970, where a prehistoric man carved 29 lines - one of the earliest examples of simple mathematics.
Sir John Franklin, already a legend throughout his life, traveled through the icy waters between Great Britain and Canada for about 30 years. This Briton achieved mythical status in 1822 when he survived his first journey through the Canadian Coppermine River to the Arctic on a diet of moss and leather boots.
The Easter Bunny first appeared in Heidelberg, Germany, at the end of the 17th century, but hares and rabbits have been a symbol of fertility and budding life since the pagan spring festivals, long before Christianity was introduced. German emigrants later brought the Easter Bunny to the US, where the animal became a huge success from the mid-19th century.
Have the man and woman pee each in a pot of bran and let it stand for nine to ten days. Anyone who sees worms appear in his or her pot of pee is infertile. That is the tip of a fertility test from the 13th century. He comes from the popular medical women's reference work Trotula, which was translated from Latin into English and French.
Pint: Liquid or dry measure The word 'pint' is usually associated with a hearty beer in an English pub: it is more than half a liter. The word comes from the old French 'pinte', which may have its origin in Latin and this measure of content was once common in large parts of Europe and North America.
Around 2000 years ago, the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii were buried under a thick layer of ash by the huge eruption of Vesuvius. Italian investigators are now scanning 86 of the victims from Pompeii, which must show the causes of death. Buildings in Pompeii collapsed So far, we thought the victims were suffocated by toxic gases from the eruption, but now the new 3D X-ray technology indicates that people also died of a skull fracture.
Simple Latin was the colloquial language in the Roman Empire For obvious reasons we only know the Latin written language. In Dutch there is a clear difference between spoken and written language, especially in literary texts. The spoken language is simpler, and the same was true for Latin, but even stronger.
The archaeologists at the University of Sheffield in England were actually looking for ruins at the Thornton Abbey in Lincolnshire. But what they found was a mass grave with 48 skeletons, including 27 from children. The archaeologists think that the dead have fallen victim to the plague, which particularly affected children.
In 1889 the archaeologist Hjalmar Stolpe found an impressive 10th century Viking grave in the Swedish Viking city of Birka. In addition to a skeleton, the grave contained a sword, a huge ax, two shields, two horses, a board game, and more objects. The board game is an indication that the warrior had tactical insight and led fights.
What is the story? When the Second World War came to an end, the top Nazis hid large amounts of gold. For example, transport was en route from the state bank in Berlin to a barracks in the Alps. The gold was hurriedly hidden, including on the Steinriegel mountain. Soon the Americans caught the responsible officers and found 700 gold bars.
At the excavation of the medieval town of Wharram Percy, archaeologists found human bones with special injuries. Aerial view of the area where Wharram Percy was. © Historic England That's why they investigated the bones. And according to scientists from The Historic England and the University of Southampton, these injuries prove that our medieval ancestors were terrified of "living dead."
In Greek antiquity, nudity was a sign of liberalism and democracy, in particular from 480 to 330 BC. Nudity was, so to speak, the jeans of the time, a kind of democratic uniform, that above all self-conscious, trained young men from the upper class wore with verve. The naked body was the response of privileged, intellectual Greeks to the primitive people's tendency to show off luxury.
What is the story? Djengis Khan and his Mongolian army spread fear and panic with what we now call genocide. He took the area from China in the east to Poland in the west. Djengis gathered enormous treasures on his conquests. What happened to it, we don't know, but he probably took the most with him in his grave.
Traps are your pure fantasy The traps you see in action movies - Indiana Jones for example - are ingenious, but pure fantasy. There are no burial chambers or temples with built-in traps, such as trip wires, trap doors and poisonous arrows. The inspiration for the films can, however, come from the Egyptian pyramids.
Blood splashed around when the Aztecs performed a grand and macabre ritual some 500 years ago in their most important temple, the Templo Mayor in today's Mexico City. At a special sacrificial stone in this temple, where the Aztecs held their largest ceremonies, 50 skulls and more than 200 jawbones were found.
For centuries it has been a great mystery how 500 years ago the inhabitants of Easter Island received red 'hats' of a few tons on top of the large statues on the island. Now researchers have discovered that these hats, called pukao, were not applied until the images were already there. A team of archaeologists writes that in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
From 1855 to 1935, the Mississippi State Insane Hospital, the mental institution of the state of Mississippi, was located where the university hospital of that state is located today. Over the years there have been around 35,000 people with mental problems. According to the medium The Clarion-Ledger from Mississippi, 1 in 5 patients died of chronic diarrhea and 'exhaustion of the nerves'.