A COLLECTION
OF INSPIRING QUOTES
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Welcome to some quotes that might inspire you.
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7 April 2021 - A BUNCH OF INSPIRING QUOTES
A BUNCH OF
INSPIRING QUOTES
G'day folks,
Welcome to some inspiring words.
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26 March 2021 - ANCIENT GLOBE CARVED INTO OSTRICH EGGS
ANCIENT GLOBE CARVED
INTO OSTRICH EGGS
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Thought to have been created around 1510,
this may be the oldest globe depicting the New World.
What’s unique
about this globe is that it’s carved on an ostrich egg and is the size
of a grapefruit. The globe, made from the lower halves of two ostrich
eggs, was discovered by an Austrian collector and is labeled in Latin.
Interestingly, North America is depicted as a group of scattered
islands, and for many countries and territories in the world, like
Japan, Brazil, and Arabia, this is the oldest known engraved depiction
on a globe.
The Washington Map Society believes it to be the oldest surviving
engraved globe to show the New World and mentions that it “contains
ships of different types, monsters, intertwining waves, a shipwrecked
sailor, and 71 place names, and one sentence, “HIC SVNT DRACONES” (Here
are the Dragons)”.
Clancy's comment: Wow. That's an interesting find.
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24 March 2021 - ANCIENT BOOT FOUND IN SIBERIA
ANCIENT BOOT
FOUND IN SIBERIA
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This exquisitely-designed women’s boot was
discovered in Siberia's Altai mountains in 1948.
This stunning shoe is
believed to be 2,300 years old and was worn by a Scythian woman around
300–290 BC. Ancient Scythians, also called Scyth, Saka, and Sacae, were
nomadic people who traveled through the Eurasian continent. This shoe
features elaborately bedazzled patterns and is made of leather, textile,
tin, and gold.
The immaculate condition of the shoe has mystified historians.
Many
believe that this might be because such shoes were particularly made for
Scythian burial mounds. Scythians were known to construct wooded
structures deep in the ground to place their dead. Each body was placed
inside a log coffin, along with many of their essentials, which they
thought their dead needed for the eternal rides of the afterlife.
This red cloth-wrapped leather boot, now a part of the State Hermitage
Museum‘s collection in St Petersburg, Russia, is likely to have belonged
to a high-ranking woman.
Clancy's comment: That is one flash boot. Nike would be proud of it.
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17 March 2021 - D-DAY TANKS FOUND IN ENGLISH CHANNEL
D-DAY TANKS FOUND
IN ENGLISH CHANNEL
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The deep ocean can easily win the title of the most mysterious place on earth. After all, we do know more about outer space than we do about the darkest depths of our seas.
But humans are a curious species, and the ocean is
continually being explored. Naturally, in some of these expeditions, people
have found some mysterious and fascinating objects, hidden deep in the water.
Some are historical artifacts, some hold an inexplicable mystery around them.
In 2008, scuba divers in the English Channel stumbled across two massive army
tanks on the ocean floor. An investigation revealed it was quite a significant
find - the two vehicles dated back to the Second World War. Found eight miles
off the West Sussex Coast, the tanks were relatively well-preserved with the
guns still intact.
After checking for minute details of the tanks against historical records,
investigators managed to identify them as rare British Centaur CS IV tanks. The
historic weapons were meant to be used in battle during the D Day landings but
never arrived. Historians discovered the tanks fell overboard when a landing
craft capsized on its way to the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
Clancy's comment: I wonder what else is down there?
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14 March 2021 - A 3,400-year-old artist's palette found in Egypt
A 3,400-year-old artist's
palette found in Egypt
G'day folks,
You’ve probably heard or read stories of various ancient artifacts such as amulets, symbols, rings, and many iconic historical structures in your school history books.
These fascinating items are incredibly important as they
give us glimpses of how life used to be once upon a time for our ancestors.
Since there were no cameras back then, these rare artifacts help create an
image in our mind of that world gone by.
This painter's palette is believed to have been carved around 1390–1352 BC from
a single piece of ivory. Amazingly, you can still see the cakes of pigments
including blue, green, brown, yellow, red, and black in its wells.
An inscription of the pharaoh Amenhotep III in hieroglyphics and the
epithet "beloved of Re" can also be seen in this ancient palette
which is safely kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Historians say that
during the reign of pharaoh Amenhotep III in ancient Egypt, art and culture
were on the rise and this old palette is a wonderful reminder of that.
Clancy's comment: I find these discoveries fascinating.
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