Saturday, February 21, 2015

Parapsychological phenomena study

Parapsychology deals with the study of phenomena that can’t be explained naturally, scientific, being outside normal sensory channels.
Shortly after the appearance of spiritualism, his followers concluded that paranormal phenomena occur only in the presence of certain people.

Channel Tunnel

Channel Tunnel is an undersea railway tunnel, 50 km long, linking western France with South East England under the English Channel. The tunnel was built in cooperation of the governments of the United Kingdom and France. It is the second longest railway tunnel in the world, surpassed only by the Seikan Tunnel Japanese. Crossing cars, buses, motorcycles and trucks is provided by rail shuttles and takes about 35 minutes from platform to platform. Passenger transport is provided by the company Eurostar, TGV-type trains using modified to suit specific tunnel and the British network .

Space Shuttle Endeavour



Space Shuttle Endeavor and ended his career after 19 years and 25 flights. She landed a few hours ago from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after one last mission to the International Space Station. The Endeavor is the youngest of NASA space shuttle fleet and was built as a replacement for Challenger, destroyed its launch in 1986. He spent almost 300 days in orbit, traveling about 200 million km from its first flight.

What is actually Yeti Snow Man



It is a mystery that has fascinated scientists ever: who is actually Yeti - creature that looks like a monkey and that seems to haunt the Himalayas?

Last year, a man science theory claimed that the Yeti is a distant relative of polar bears who disappeared 40,000 years ago. But some recent DNA tests come to contradict this theory.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Lighthouse of Alexandria the 7th wonder of the ancient world

The seventh wonder of the ancient world was in Egypt. It is a tower on top of which a flame that burned sailors entering the port of Alexandria signal. It was built on the island of Faros, this name is the origin of the term far that designates such a construction.
Lighthouse of Alexandria was built during the reign of Ptolemy II, 285-246 BC, the designer Sostre. The legend, the subject of the action of sea Sostre different materials to see which is most resistant. Following the experience, the architect found that only the glass was not appealed.

Petra Stone Town

Petra, stone town and impress all the pilgrims, is an archaeological site placed to southwestern Jordan. The Town lies along the foot of Mount Hor  walking across a long gorge and then stretching the eastern side of the Arabah valley, known as Wadi Araba - wide valley that stretches from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.
The city is best known for its architecture, carved always entirely in stone mountain that support most of the buildings.
Petra - a discovery of world importance
The city, with the whole area of the western world remained unknown until 1812, when he was discovered by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. Explorer discovery was described in a John William Burgon's sent as a reddish-pink city half as old time.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Robinson Crusoe History of a book

Daniel Defoe was the son of the butcher, the Puritan London's St. Giles Cripplegate,. He was born 20 years before his time had Selkirk and a man with multiple occupations: orator and politician, merchant and author of numerous books and laws.
Native district was one of the most badly during the terrible plague of 1665. The black plague ravages Daniel Defoe himself had to deal extensively in the famous plague log in, they will score among leading memorialiştii century.
Daniel learned book a good teacher, to whose toil teaching always referred with gratitude, for he said that he learned from enabled to answer Swift once that he had made ​​stupid and illiterate scribbler that as illiterate as I learned in my time to know five languages ​​like water