In the Khanyar area of Kashmir, India, in downtown Srinagar, there is an old shrine—a modest stone building with a traditional Kashmiri multi-tiered sloping roof and a green hexagonal dome. Known as Roza Bal—roza means tomb, the word bal mean place—the shrine is the burial site of Yuz Asaf, a medieval Muslim preacher and another Muslim holy man named Mir Sayyid Naseeruddin. But a growing number
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Rozabal Shrine: The Tomb of Jesus
Posted by runbholarun 27 days ago (http://www.amusingplanet.com)The Warsaw Radio Mast
Posted by runbholarun 27 days ago (http://www.amusingplanet.com)
Some radio transmitters are built to great heights in order to reach audiences far and wide. In fact, nine out of ten structures taller than 500 meters are radio transmitters. The Warsaw Radio Mast in Konstantynów, Poland, was the tallest among them, standing at an impressive 646.38 meters. This would have made it the third-tallest structure globally, following the Burj Khalifa tower in the Unite
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Holmdel Horn Antenna: Where The Big Bang Was Discovered
Posted by runbholarun 27 days ago (http://www.amusingplanet.com)
Physicists and astronomers believe that the universe began with the Big Bang—a cataclysmic event that occurred roughly 13 billion years ago which gave birth to the universe. The Big Bang theory suggests that the entire universe was concentrated in an incredibly hot and dense state, called the singularity, which began to rapidly expand resulting in the formation of matter, including subatomic part
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A Piece of Sputnik in Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Posted by runbholarun 27 days ago (http://www.amusingplanet.com)
In the early 1960s, before the Soviets sent Yuri Gagarin to space, they began their Vostok programme with a series of unmanned test flights to investigate the possibilities and the means for a crewed mission. The Korabl-Sputnik 1, dubbed “Sputnik 4” in the West, was the first test flight of the Vostok programme. The 4.5 ton spacecraft carried a variety of scientific instruments, including a telev
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The Singapore Stone
Posted by runbholarun 27 days ago (http://www.amusingplanet.com)
At the mouth of the Singapore River, at a promontory known variously as Rocky Point and Artillery Point, there once stood a massive boulder 3 meters wide and 3 meters tall. The boulder was first discovered in 1819 by laborers clearing jungles at the behest of British officer Sir Stamford Raffles, who secured control over the island of Singapore in order to strengthen British’s presence in the reg
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The Building That Gave Its Residents Leukemia
Posted by runbholarun 27 days ago (http://www.amusingplanet.com)
Building number 7 on Gvardeytsiv Kantemirovtsiv street (now known as Mariyi Pryimachenko Street) in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, was the most recent addition to the block. Equipped with an elevator and running hot water, this apartment complex exuded a level of luxury not commonly seen in Soviet-era residential buildings. The first family moved in in 1980. They couldn’t have asked for more. It was argua
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Arthur John Priest: The Unsinkable Stoker
Posted by runbholarun 37 days ago (http://www.amusingplanet.com)
If there was anyone on board the Titanic that truly deserved the title “unsinkable” it was a coal stoker named Arthur John Priest, who survived no fewer than four ship sinking, including that of the Titanic and its sister ship Britannic, as well as living through two ship collisions. Priest was born in Southampton, England in 1887 and worked most of his life as a member of "the black gang&q
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How A Dog Saved Darwin From Bombing
Posted by runbholarun 37 days ago (http://www.amusingplanet.com)
Throughout history, animals have held significant roles in wars and conflicts. Cavalry horses were deployed to charge the enemy, pigeons conveyed messages from the front lines to headquarters, while mules and donkeys were responsible for transporting weapons and supplies. Dogs have consistently occupied a unique position in human affairs, serving in various capacities such as tracking enemies, de
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William Rankin: The Man Who Fell Through a Thundercloud
Posted by runbholarun 44 days ago (http://www.amusingplanet.com)
Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Rankin gently pulled back the stick of his F-8 Crusader to put the single-engine supersonic fighter jet on a steady climb. His goal was to go over the ominous looking cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud that was forming just ahead of him. He had been inside a thundercloud before and the experience was so violent that nobody ever had to remind him again to avoid thunde
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MS Hans Hedtoft: Denmark’s Titanic
Posted by runbholarun 44 days ago (http://www.amusingplanet.com)
Nearly five decades after the sinking of the Titanic, another tragedy struck in the oceans. A Danish liner was on her maiden voyage off the coast of Western Greenland, when she collided with an iceberg and sank on January 30, 1959 with the loss of all crew and passengers on board. Like the RMS Titanic, she too was deemed “the safest afloat.” MS Hans Hedtoft was built by Frederikshavns Værft at F
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