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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Petra: Ancient City Carved Out of Rock
by Owen Jarus
Located about 115 miles (185 km) southwest of Amman, Jordan, Petra was an ancient city that was literally carved into red desert cliffs. Its ornate ancient architecture and natural beauty attract people from all over the world. Part of the film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” was filmed in Petra, bringing it more popular attention.
Until its annexation by Rome in 106 A.D., Petra served as a capital for the Nabataeans, a people who wrote using an Aramaic language and controlled caravan trade throughout the region.
The earliest mention of these people is from 312 B.C., when they apparently withstood an assault by Antigonus, one of Alexander the Great’s successors. In these early years the Nabataeans are believed to have lived a nomadic lifestyle, and Petra was likely a place of tents and simple structures…
(read more: Live Science)
(photos: T - Vitalii Nesterchuk ; BL - Robert Paul Van Beets; BR - Alaksander Todorovik)
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“London 2012 organisers have reportedly inquired about The Who drummer Keith Moon’s availability to perform at the Games - 34 years after he died.”
Lady Godiva was an 11th century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants.
HOT!
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Etching of the Tower of Babel.
An illustration from “Turris Babel, Sive Archontologia Qua Primo Priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, Secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque exstructio, confusio linguarum, & inde gentium transmigrationis, cum principalium inde enatorum idiomatum historia, multiplici eruditione describuntur & explicantur”, by Athanasius Kircher, 1679.
The University of Heidelberg has scans of the entire volume available online. The image above links to a high-res scan from their archive.
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- (MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE) After President Bush Sr. vomited on the Japanese Prime Minister, a new word entered the Japanese language. Bushusuru means “to do the Bush thing,” or to publicly vomit.
- Grover Cleveland was the only president in history to hold the job of a hangman. He was once the sheriff of Erie County, New York, and twice had to spring the trap at a hanging.
- Andrew Johnson is the only tailor ever to be president. As president, he would typically stop by a tailor shop to say hello. He would wear only the suits that he made himself.
- Twenty-ninth president Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) repeatedly made love to a young girl, Nan Britton, in a White House closet. On one occasion, Secret Service agents had to stop his wife from beating down the closet door
- Jimmy Carter is the first known president to go on record as seeing a UFO.
- Every member of Teddy Roosevelt’s family owned a pair of stilts, including the first lady.
- As a young man, Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893) fought lyssophobia, or the fear of going insane.
- Calvin Coolidge liked to have his head rubbed with petroleum jelly while eating his breakfast in bed.
- Thomas Jefferson was convinced that if he soaked his feet in a bucket of cold water every day, he’d never get a cold.
- Harding was obsessed with poker and once bet an entire set of priceless White House China and lost it.
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“…these are some mind-bogglingly amazing structures on Earth that we have no fucking clue how they were made by ancient men. Which means the more logical explanation for them is “aliens did it.” Or, at least, “aliens helped considerably.” Either one.”
