The secret world history & amazing facts Welcome to your hidden past... Here will I present the most important historical facts, that normally are "hidden" or sadly neglected and you actually should discover at school, plus some amazing but true pieces of time...
Everything is written in chronological order and I only use facts (or when there are no facts, as the origin of man, the most accepted theories) from very respectable historical books and some other fine sources, like Guinness book of record...
The human ape, had twice as big brain than any other apes and made the first tools 2 million years ago... They split up in four different races 1 million year later, and tree of them left Africa... They could speak 400.000 years ago and was by then spread over Africa, Europe and Asia... Finally did big Asian groups walk over to America, when the Asian and American continent was connected at north and they did then stay all over north and south America... The great Sphinx's in Egypt was probably built about 8000 BC, by dark brown northern Africans, 4000 years before the Egyptian civilization, according to the erosion of rain on the statue... Which is a rather exact way to measure how old outdoor stone statues are.
Brazil was discovered, from the sea 531 BC (!!) or even earlier by Phoenicians... They was the first great sea trade people, living in the area of Lebanon (rather close to the first civilized town) and they did cross the Atlantic ocean from Africa and trade then for many years with the locals - who actually came walking from China (see above) many many years before that... Cleopatra (actually "Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator" born January 69 died August 30 BC) was 21 and a famous nymphomaniac, when she finally seduce Julius Caesar, who then was 52 years old.. But they "met" long before that and she took her first lover at twelve, had a special temple with lover boys and killed herself at 39... But she was also highly educated, directly related to one of Alexander the great's Greek generals, very intelligent and did as example speak 9 or 10 languages.

Facts

1. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
2. Celtic warriors sometimes fought their battles naked, their bodies dyed blue from head to toe.
3. King Charles the Second often rubbed dust from the mummies of pharaohs so he could "absorb their ancient greatness".
4. In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb".
5. Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor Shen-Nung.
6. In ancient Egypt, people shaved eyebrows as a mourning symbol when their cats died.
7. Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.
8. The Black Death reduced the population of Europe by one third in the period from 1347 to 1351.
9. Coca-Cola was originally green.
10. The 1st 20 African slaves were brought to the US, to the colony of Virginia in 1619, by a Dutch ship.
11. Of the 262 men who have held the title of pope, 33 have died by violence.
12. Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
13. Roman Emperor Caligula was so upset by the death of his sister Drusila that he imposed a year of mourning. During this time, everyone in the empire was forbidden to dine with his family, laugh or take a bath. The penalty for transgression was death.
14. The name of the first airplane flown at Kitty Hawk by the Wright Brothers, on December 17, 1903, was Bird of Prey.
15. The worldwide "Spanish Flu" epidemic which broke out in 1918 killed more than 30 million people in less than a year's time.

The Most Amazing Facts About History.

1. Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word "GOLF" entered into the English language.
2. In ancient China, doctors could receive fees only if their patient was cured. If it deteriorated, they would have to pay the patient.
3. It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
4. The total number of Americans killed in the Civil War is greater than the combined total of Americans killed in all other wars.
5. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
6. Charles Dickens always faced north while sleeping.
7. Roman coins have been dug up in America, suggesting that perhaps the Vikings or Columbus weren't the first Europeans to visit the New World. The coins were found in locations as far afield as Texas, Venezuela and Maine. One stash was found buried in a mound in Round Rock, Texas. The mound is dated to approximately 800 A.D. In the town of Heavener, Okla., a bronze tetradrachm bearing the profile of Emperor Nero was found in 1976. The coin was originally struck in Antioch, Syria, in 63 A.D.
8. In 1920 for the first time in recorded history, the average life expectancy of human beings exceeded that of goldfish. Before that year, a newborn infant could expect to live 48.4 years. For many species of wild goldfish, the projected life span was over 50.
9. Peter the Great executed his wife's lover, and forced her to keep her lover's head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.
10. People have been wearing glasses for about 700 years.
11. Seven of the eight US Presidents who have died in office - either through illness or assassination - were elected at precisely 20-year intervals.
12. The US federal income tax was first enacted in 1862 to support the Union's Civil War effort. It was eliminated in 1872, revived in 1894 then declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court the following year. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution made the income tax a permanent fixture in the US tax system.
13. People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs.
14. The White House, in Washington DC, was originally gray, the color of the sandstone it was built out of. After the War of 1812, during which it had been burned by Canadian troops, the outside walls were painted white to hide the smoke stains.
15. The custom of shaking hands with the strangers originated to show that both the parties were unarmed.

பாப்கார்ன் உருவான வரலாறு !!!

 

இன்று நாம் திரைப்படம் பார்க்கும்போது சுவாரஸ்யமாக கொறித்துத் தின்னும் பாப்கார்ன் எப்போது பிறந்திருக்கும் என்று நினைக்கிறீர்கள்? சொன்னால் நம்புவதற்கு ஆச்சர்யமாக இருக்கும். ஆம், பாப்கார்னின் வயது சுமார் 6 ஆயிரம் ஆண்டுகள். மெக்சிகோ மக்கள்தான் இந்த சூப்பர் நொறுக்கித் தீனியை கண்டுபிடித்தவர்கள். நியூ மெக்சிகோவில் உள்ள வவ்வால் குகையில் இருந்து 5600 ஆண்டுகள் பழமையான பாப்கார்னை 1948ஆம் ஆண்டு ஆய்வாளர்கள் கண்டெடுத்தனர்.

 

மெக்சிகோவில் கி.பி 300ஆம் ஆண்டைச் சேர்ந்த ஈமக்கலன் ஒன்று கிடைத்திருக்கிறது. சோளக் கடவுள் பாப்கார்ன் போன்ற தலை அலங்காரத்துடன் உள்ள காட்சி இதில் இடம்பெற்றிருக்கிறது. அப்படியே மெக்சிகோவில் இருந்து சீனா, சுமத்திரா, இந்தியா என பாப்கார்ன் உலகம் முழுவதும் பரவிவிட்டது.

 

கொலம்பஸ் மேற்கிந்தியத் தீவுகளை அடைந்தபோது, அவரது குழுவினரிடம் அங்கிருந்த பழங்குடியினர் பாப்கார்ன் விற்றிருக்கிறார்கள். பழங்காலத்தில் பாப்கார்ன் உணவுப் பொருளாக மட்டுமின்றி அலங்காரத்திற்கும் பயன்பட்டிருக்கிறது. செழிப்புக் கடவுள், மழைக் கடவுள் போன்றவர்களின் நகைகளில் பாப்கார்னைப் பதித்து அலங்கரித்திருக்கிறார்கள். மக்களும் பாப்கார்னைக் கொண்டு தங்களை அலங்கரித்துக் கொண்டுள்ளனர். அந்தக் காலத்தில் சூடான கல்லின் மீதும், சுடு மணலிலும் சோளத்தைப் போட்டு பாப்கார்ன் தயாரித்திருக்கிறார்கள்.

 

1890களில் அமெரிக்காவின் ஒக்லஹாமா நகரில் திவாலான வங்கி உரிமையாளர் ஒருவர் பாப்கார்ன் மெஷின் ஒன்றை வாங்கி, தியேட்டர் ஒன்றின் அருகே கடை போட்டார். அதில் கிடைத்த வருவாயில் அவர் தாம் இழந்த மூன்று பண்ணைகளை மீண்டும் வாங்கி விட்டாராம். அந்தளவுக்கு பாப்கார்னுக்கு மக்கள் மத்தியில் வரவேற்பு இருந்திருக்கிறது. அந்த வரவேற்பு இன்று வரை தொடர்கிறது.