Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is an undefined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The triangle does not exist according to the US Navy and the name is not recognized by the US Board on Geographic Names. Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings. Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors. In a 2013 study the World Wide Fund for Nature identified the world’s 10 most dangerous waters for shipping, but the Bermuda Triangle was not among them. Contrary to popular belief, insurance companies do not charge higher premiums for shipping in this area.Triangle area
The first written boundaries date from a 1964 issue of pulp magazine Argosy, where the triangle's three vertices are in Miami, Florida peninsula; in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and in the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda. But subsequent writers did not follow this definition. Every writer gives different boundaries and vertices to the triangle, with the total area varying from 500,000 to 1.5 million square miles.Consequently, the determination of which accidents have occurred inside the triangle depends on which writer reports them.The United States Board on Geographic Names does not recognize this name, and it is not delimited in any map drawn by US government agencies.
The area is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands. It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean, and South America from points north.

History/Origins
The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 16, 1950 Associated Press article by Edward Van Winkle Jones. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door", a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger bombers on a training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place. Flight 19 alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of American Legion magazine. It was claimed^{[by whom?]} that the flight leader had been heard saying, "We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white." It was also claimed that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to Mars."^{[dubious – discuss]} Sand's article was the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident. In the February 1964 issue of Argosy, Vincent Gaddis's article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" argued that Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region. The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book, Invisible Horizons.
Others would follow with their own works, elaborating on Gaddis' ideas: John Wallace Spencer (Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973); Charles Berlitz (The Bermuda Triangle, 1974); Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle, 1974), and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.

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Giant Crystal Cave's Mystery Solved

 Buried a thousand feet (300 meters) below Naica mountain in the Chihuahuan Desert, the cave was discovered by two miners excavating a new tunnel for the Industrias Peñoles company in 2000.
The cave contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found: translucent gypsum beams measuring up to 36 feet (11 meters) long and weighing up to 55 tons.
"It's a natural marvel," said García-Ruiz, of the University of Granada in Spain.
To learn how the crystals grew to such gigantic sizes, García-Ruiz studied tiny pockets of fluid trapped inside.

The crystals, he said, thrived because they were submerged in mineral-rich water with a very narrow, stable temperature range—around 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius).
At this temperature the mineral anhydrite, which was abundant in the water, dissolved into gypsum, a soft mineral that can take the form of the crystals in the Naica cave.
The new findings appear in the April issue of the journal Geology.

           

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Our Childhood a Past to Reminisce

Parang nagaapir ang mga kamay namin habang kinakanta eto:

Nanay, Tatay
Gusto ko tinapay
Ate , Kuya,
Gusto ko kape
Lahat ng gusto ko ay susundin mo
ang magkamali ay pipingutin ko
Isa Dalawa Tatlo

Ki-Ki-Kinagat ako ng putakti
dinala ako sa makati
binigyan ako ng One...
One two three

Si Si Si Nena ay bata pa, kaya ang sabi niya ay um-um-um-ah-ah.
Si Nena ay dalaga na kaya ang sabi niya ay um-um-um-ah-ah.
Si Nena ay matanda na, kaya ang sabi niya ay um-um-um-ah-ah.

Sarah Sarah princesa
Lavinya Lavinya isnabera
Lottie Lottie iyakin
Pinagalitan ni Mis Minchin

Eto naman yung paraan para malaman kung ikaw nga ba ang magiging taya:

Mangga, mangga hinog ka na ba?
Oo Oo hinog na ako!
Kung hinog ka na ay umalis ka na


JAK EN POY! Hale hale hoy! Sinong matalo syang unggoy!
JAK EN POY! Hale hale hoy! Sinong matalo syang kabayo! (vesion ng baklita)


Monkey monkey anabel how many monkey did you see? (magsasabi ng number yung huling naituro tapos bibilangin, at ang huling bilang maaring alis o taya – hindi maiwasan na magkaroon ng dayaan dahil nabibilang na agad ng naituro kung sino posibleng mataya, maliban nalang kung mahina sa math ang kalaro mo!)

Langit Lupa impyerno,
im im impyerno,
saksak puso tulo ang dugo
patay o buhay dalahin sa ospital
uno, dos, tres sya ang alis... alis!


Chinese garter song:

RED WHITE and BLUE.. Stars over you. Mama said, Papa Said, I LOVE YOU

I... Love... you teleber-teleber
isnooky, dina bonnevie...
sharon, sharon love gabi!
Teleber-teleber...

10-20-30-40-50-60-70-80-90-100
*dead for all – meaning bubuhayin nya ang mga kakamping di marunong magbilang! nyahaha

Eto naman yung pagbibilang ng teks:

Isang babae binarako sa tabi paglabas buntis = 17
Isa-dalawa-tatlo-apat-cha = 9
*Isa=2
*Cha=1

Pang-asar na kanta:

Ang kapal ng mukha. Di na nahiya.
Dapat sa’yo pasabugin ang mukha!
Ulo-ulo lang di kasama katawan,
‘pag kasama katawan, sabog pati laman

One two three asawa ni marie
araw gabi walang panty

Sabihin mo sa ate mo break na kami
nakita ko ang panti nya ganun kalaki

Paboritong laro:
Bahay-bahayan
Luto-lutuan
Shake-shake shampoo
Agawan base
Agawan panyo
Agawan syota
Pikpakboom
Siato
Luksong tinik
Luksong bakla
Habulan-gahasa
Hide and sick

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Turmeric's Healing Powers

Turmeric is on of spices that has been around for centuries.  It is commonly used in Eastern cooking, especially on the Asian continent.  Turmeric is actually a plant in its original form as it is a part of the ginger family.  You would be able to tell by just looking at it.

The more common powder spice form is made by boiling and then drying the plant, which is then ground into a mustard yellow powder.  The color has actually been used to help color mustards.

Turmeric's Healing Powers

Turmeric has anti-inflammatory and antiseptic agents making it great for skin care.  In fact, it is used in the beautification process of brides in India and Pakistan: a turmeric paste is made and applied on

the entire bride’s body and then washed off.  It is believed to help even out skin tone and help soften the skin.  Recently, Japan has conducted research that suggests that turmeric helps sooth inflamed joints as well.  It is known to also be useful in treating cuts and burns since it is a natural anti-bacterial.

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Yamashita's Gold, Also Referred to as the Yamashita Treasure

Yamashita's gold, also referred to as the Yamashita treasure, is the name given to the alleged war loot stolen in Southeast Asia by Japanese forces during World War II and hidden in caves, tunnels and underground complexes in the Philippines. It is named for the Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, nicknamed "The Tiger of Malaya". Though accounts that the treasure remains hidden in Philippines have lured treasure hunters from around the world for over fifty years, its existence is dismissed by most experts. The rumored treasure has been the subject of a complex lawsuit that was filed in a Hawaiian state court in 1988 involving a Filipino treasure hunter, Rogelio Roxas, and the former Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos.

The looting and the alleged cover-up
Prominent among those arguing for the existence of Yamashita's gold are Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave, who have written two books relating to the subject: The Yamato Dynasty: the Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family (2000) and Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold (2003). The Seagraves contend that looting was organized on a massive scale, by both yakuza gangsters such as Yoshio Kodama, and the highest levels of Japanese society, including Emperor Hirohito. The Japanese government intended that loot from Southeast Asia would finance Japan's war effort The Seagraves allege that Hirohito appointed his brother, Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, to head a secret organization called Kin no yuri ("Golden Lily"), for this purpose. It is purported that many of those who knew the locations of the loot were killed during the war, or later tried by the Allies for war crimes and executed or incarcerated. Yamashita himself was (controversially) convicted of war crimes and executed by the U.S. Army on February 23, 1946.

The stolen property reportedly included many different kinds of valuables looted from banks, depositories, temples, churches, other commercial premises, mosques, museums and private homes. It takes its name from General Tomoyuki Yamashita, who assumed command of Japanese forces in the Philippines in 1944.

According to various accounts, the loot was initially concentrated in Singapore, and later transported to the Philippines. The Japanese hoped to ship the treasure from the Philippines to the Japanese Home Islands after the war ended. As the War in the Pacific progressed, U.S. Navy submarines and Allied warplanes inflicted increasingly heavy sinkings of Japanese merchant shipping. Some of the ships carrying the war booty back to Japan were sunk in combat.

The Seagraves and a few others have claimed that American military intelligence operatives located much of the loot; they colluded with Hirohito and other senior Japanese figures to conceal its existence, and they used it to finance American covert intelligence operations around the world during the Cold War. These rumors have inspired many hopeful treasure hunters, but most experts and Filipino historians say there is no credible evidence behind these claims.

In 1992, Imelda Marcos claimed that Yamashita's gold accounted for the bulk of the wealth of her husband, Ferdinand Marcos.

Many individuals and consortia, both Philippine and foreign, continue to search for treasure sites. A number of accidental deaths, injuries and financial losses incurred by treasure hunters have been reported.

At present, the Mines & Geosciences Bureau of the Department of Natural Resources of the Philippines is the Filipino government agency that grants treasure permits.
Treasure skeptics

University of the Philippines professor Rico Jose has questioned the theory that treasure from mainland South East Asia was transported to the Philippines: "By 1943 the Japanese were no longer in control of the seas... It doesn't make sense to bring in something that valuable here when you know it's going to be lost to the Americans anyway. The more rational thing would have been to send it to Taiwan or China."

Philippines National Historical Institute chairman and historian Ambeth Ocampo commented: “Two of the wealth myths I usually encounter are the Yamashita treasure and gossip that the Cojuangco fortune was founded on a bag of money…” Ocampo also said: "For the past 50 years many people, both Filipinos and foreigners, have spent their time, money and energy in search of Yamashita's elusive treasure.” Professor Ocampo noted “What makes me wonder is that for the past 50 years, despite all the treasure hunters, their maps, oral testimony and sophisticated metal detectors, nobody has found a thing.”
Rogelio Roxas lawsuit

In March 1988, a Filipino treasure hunter named Rogelio Roxas filed a lawsuit in the state of Hawaii against the former president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda Marcos for theft and human rights abuses. Roxas claimed that in Baguio City in 1961 he met the son of a former member of the Japanese army who mapped for him the location of the legendary Yamashita Treasure. Roxas claimed a second man, who served as Yamashita's interpreter during the Second World War, told him of visiting an underground chamber there where stores of gold and silver were kept, and who told of a golden buddha kept at a convent located near the underground chambers. Roxas claimed that within the next few years he formed a group to search for the treasure, and obtained a permit for the purpose from a relative of Ferdinand, Judge Pio Marcos. In 1971, Roxas claimed, he and his group uncovered an enclosed chamber on state lands near Baguio City where he found bayonets, samurai swords, radios, and skeletal remains dressed in a Japanese military uniform. Also found in the chamber, Roxas claimed, were a 3-foot-high (0.91 m) golden-colored Buddha and numerous stacked crates which filled an area approximately 6 feet x 6 feet x 35 feet. He claimed he opened just one of the boxes, and found it packed with gold bullion. He said he took from the chamber the golden Buddha, which he estimated to weigh 1,000 kilograms, and one box with twenty-four gold bars, and hid them in his home. He claimed he resealed the chamber for safekeeping until he could arrange the removal of the remaining boxes, which he suspected were also filled with gold bars. Roxas said he sold seven of the gold bars from the opened box, and sought potential buyers for the golden Buddha. Two individuals representing prospective buyers examined and tested the metal in the Buddha, Roxas said, and reported it was made of solid, 20-carat gold. It was soon after this, Roxas claimed, that President Ferdinand Marcos learned of Roxas' discovery and ordered him arrested, beaten, and the Buddha and remaining gold seized. Roxas alleged that in retaliation to his vocal campaign to reclaim the Buddha and the remainder of the treasure taken from him, Ferdinand continued to have Roxas threatened, beaten and eventually incarcerated for over a year.

Following his release, Roxas put his claims against Marcos on hold until Ferdinand lost the presidency in 1986. But in 1988, Roxas and the Golden Budha Corporation, which now held the ownership rights to the treasure Roxas claims was stolen from him, filed suit against Ferdinand and wife Imelda in a Hawaiian state court seeking damages for the theft and the surrounding human rights abuses committed against Roxas. Roxas died on the eve of trial, but prior to his death he gave the deposition testimony that would be later used in evidence. In 1996, the Roxas estate and the Golden Budha Corporation received what was then largest judgment ever awarded in history, $22 billion which with interest increased to $40.5 billion. In 1998, The Hawaii Supreme Court held that there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's finding that Roxas found the treasure and that Marcos converted it. However, the court reversed the damage award, holding that the $22 billion award of damages for the chamber full of gold was too speculative, as there was no evidence of quantity or quality, and ordered a new hearing on the value of the golden Buddha and 17 bars of gold only. After several more years of legal proceedings, the Golden Budha Corporation obtained a final judgment against Imelda Marcos to the extent of her interest in the Marcos estate in the principal amount of $13,275,848.37 and Roxas’ estate obtained a $6 million judgment on the claim for human right abuse.

This lawsuit ultimately concluded that Roxas found a treasure, and although the Hawaiian state court was not required to determine whether this particular treasure was the legendary Yamashita’s gold, the testimony relied upon by the court in reaching its conclusion pointed in that direction. Roxas was allegedly following a map from the son of a Japanese soldier; Roxas allegedly relied on tips provided from Yamashita’s interpreter; and Roxas allegedly found samurai swords and the skeletons of dead Japanese soldiers in the treasure chamber. All this led the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal to summarize the allegations leading to Roxas’ final judgment as follows: "The Yamashita Treasure was found by Roxas and stolen from Roxas by Marcos' men."

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Interesting Filipino Music Trivia in History

Did you know the inspiration behind the Christmas song “Payapang Daigdig”?

Inspired by the ending of World War II, this song is acclaimed as the local counterpart of the traditional Western carol “Silent Night, Holy Night.” It was composed by National Artist for Music Felipe Padilla de Leon. (From the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, v. 6, p. 264-265)


Did you know that the lyrics of the Philippine National Anthem had versions in three languages?

The national anthem composed in 1898 remained without words until Jose Palma wrote the poem Filipinas, which was used as the anthem’s lyrics in 1899. In the 1920s, the American colonial government commissioned the translation of the original Spanish lyrics into English and the product of which was officially adopted by the Philippine Commonwealth in 1934. In 1956, the Filipino translation by Ildefonso Santos and Julian Cruz Balmaceda was officially proclaimed. Some revisions were still made in 1962, the product of which is the version which is now sung publicly.


Did you know that Arsenio H. Lacson was the first to use a campaign jingle?

“…it would only be after the war that Filipino politicians would have real use for campaign jingles. The first to use one was Manila city mayor Arsenio H. Lacson. Riding an emerging American musical trend of sensual African drumbeats and Cuban rhythms, the “Lacson Mambo” contributed to the mayor’s victories in 1951, 1955, and 1959.” (From PCIJ.org, 2004)


Did you know that Borromeo Lou was the Philippine “King of Jazz?”

In 1921, a Cebuano named Luis Borromeo returned from America and Canada as Borromeo Lou. It was he who brought “American-style stage entertainment” to the country. He redefined the traditional vod-a-vil (or bodabil) by integrating “Classic-Jazz Music” in shows. “Borromeo himself became a jazz bandleader, and became known as the Philippine “King of Jazz,” the title then given to the famous Paul Whiteman in America (From Pinoy Jazz Traditions. Pasig City: Anvil, 2004).”


Did you know that Maria Carpena was the first Filipino recording artist?

Maria Carpena, known as the first Filipino recording artist and sarswela star, recorded Ang Maya for Victor Records in 1913. She did the recording with the Molina Orchestra, at a makeshift studio in the Manila Hotel.
(From CCP encyclopedia of Philippine art, vol. 6)


Did you know that Atang de la Rama was the first Filipino actress to appear in the movies?

Atang de la Rama also became the lead star in around 50 zarzuelas in various languages and performed not only in locally-renowned venues but also in “open plazas” and “cockpits.” (From www.nhi.gov.ph)


Did you know that Atang de la Rama was once a singing telegram?

While rehearsing for a zarzuela, Honorata “Atang” de la Rama was brought all the way to Baler, Quezon to be part of Manuel Quezon’s courtship to Aurora (who later became Quezon’s wife) by singing for her. (From Looking Back. Pasig City : Anvil, 2010)
Did you know that Rowena Arrieta had written her first piano composition at age five?

Rowena “Winnie” Arrieta, a first rate pianist, learned to play piano at the age of two and read musical notes even before learning her ABCs at the age of four. She was officially proclaimed the first Filipino Tchaikovsky laureate, after winning fifth place in the Seventh Tchaikovsky Music competition, piano division in Moscow in 1982. (From FOCUS Philippines, Aug. 21, 1982)
Did you know that the song Gaano Ko Ikaw Kamahal was finished in one week?

Multi-awarded composer Ernani Cuenco wrote one of his favorite songs, Gaano Ko Ikaw Kamahal with his wife as his inspiration. He wrote it because he wanted to write something about love, not only love of husband for his wife, but rather a kind of universal love… love for fellowmen, love for one another. Due to some revisions, it took Cuenco one week to finish the song. (From FOCUS Philippines, Aug. 14, 1982)
Did you know that Epifanio de los Santos (whom EDSA was named after), was also a musicologist and considered one of the three best guitarists in the country during the American period?

A man of many talents, de los Santos was a lawyer, writer, historian, bibliophile, and antique collector. In 1918, while serving as fiscal for Bulacan and Bataan, he was designated technical director of the Philippine Census by Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison. He succeeded Trinidad Pardo de Tavera as director of the Philippine Library and Museum in 1925. He was also a gifted musician—a great pianist and guitarist. During his time, he was considered one of the three outstanding guitarists of the Philippines. The other two were General Fernando Canon, a revolutionary hero, and Guillermo Tolentino, a renowned sculptor.


Did you know that Sangdugong Panaguinip was the first Filipino opera?

Sangdugong Panaguinip is the first Philippine opera in the Tagalog language. It was composed by Ladislao Bonus who is dubbed as the “Father of Philippine Opera.” Bonus is the maternal grandfather of Felipe M. De Leon Jr., a music scholar and humanities professor at the University of the Philippines, and son of National Artist for Music, Felipe Padilla de Leon.

The one-act opera with five scenes was based on the Spanish libretto La Alianza Soñada by Pedro Paterno which was translated into Tagalog by novelist and dramatist, Roman G. Reyes. First performed at the famed Teatro Zorilla on August 2, 1902.
Did you know that the APO Hiking Society was formerly known as Apolinario Mabini Hiking Society?

The singing group composed of singers, humorists, and songwriters was organized in 1969. Before the group was trimmed down to three members: Jim Paredes, Danny Javier, and Boboy Garrovillo, it originally included Butch Dans, Lito de Joya, Gus Cosio, Renato Garcia, Chito Kintanar, Sonny Santiago, and Kenny Barton. The group is known for the distinctive urban sound and sense of humor in their music. (From CCP encyclopedia of Philippine art, vol. 6)


Did you know that Hotdog, a Pinoy rock and roll band initiated what is now known as the Manila Sound?

Manila Sound is a very light kind of pop music that uses colloquial language (or Taglish) and is expressive of juvenile sentiments. (From CCP encyclopedia of Philippine art, vol. 6)


Did you know that Levi Celerio wrote the lyrics of the song Sa Ugoy ng Duyan in just 15 minutes?

In 1948, he and other Filipino artists boarded the SS Gordon in Honolulu. Levi Celerio wrote it while the ship was still docked in Honolulu. (From Music in history, history in music. Manila : UST Publishing, 2004)
Did you know that the popular Christmas song Ang Pasko ay Sumapit was originally in Visayan?

The song’s original Cebuano text Kasadya Ning Taknaa (How Happy is this Time) is by Mariano Vestil and its music is by Vicente Rubi. It was translated into Tagalog by Levi Celerio. Its beginnings may be traced to the celebration of the Cebuano feast of the Pili-Kanipaan held in December. It was first performed in Old Opon (now Lapu-Lapu City) and was recorded under the Mareco label seventeen years later. (From CCP encyclopedia of Philippine art, vol. 6)
Did you know that Cecil Lloyd was the “Mystery Singer” of the 1930s?

Cecil Lloyd (1910-1988) started singing on radio in 1930. He was featured as the Mystery Singer on KZRM in 1934. He first recorded Tagalog compositions “Ikaw” and “Buhat” in 1939. In 1948, he established the first Filipino-owned record company, Philippine Recording System, which featured his renditions of Filipino folk songs. He is considered the Father of the Philippine Recording Industry. He was also a professional lawyer. He finished law at the UP in 1936. (From CCP encyclopedia of Philippine art, vol. 6)
Did you know that the term “Jeproks” from the song Laki sa Layaw (Jeproks) is a reversed version of “Project”?

The term “Jeproks” or “Project,” which was widely used in the late 1960s and 1970s, refers to the youth who come from the middle-to-low middle-income housing projects of the government (e.g., Project 2 and 3). (From CCP encyclopedia of Philippine art, vol. 6)

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Good to Know Interesting Art Trivia

1. Leonardo da Vinci expended 12 years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.

2. Gothic was initially a period of condemnation among the Italian Renaissance creative persons who coined it. The period implied that, contrasted to better academic buildings, the Gothic medieval cathedrals were so crude that only a Goth could produce them.

3. On 3rd December 1961 Henri Matisse's painting Le Bateau was put the right way up after suspending upside-down for 46 days without anyone discovering at the repository of up to date Art in New York, America.

4. Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.

5. Paul Gaugin, the French decorator, was a labourer on the Panama Canal. About 25,000 employees died during its building.

6. In very old times, it was accepted that certain colours could battle the evil spirits that lingered over nurseries. Because azure was affiliated with the fantastic spirits, boys were clothed in that hue, young men then being considered the most valuable asset to parents. whereas baby young women did not have a colour affiliated with them, they were mostly dressed in black. It was only in the Middle Ages when pink became affiliated with baby young women.

7. When Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was thieved from the Louvre in 1912, 6 replicas were traded as the initial, each at a huge cost, in the 3 years before the original was recovered.

8. On 3rd Dec 1961 Grandma Moses, the renowned American primitive decorator, died at the age of 101

9. English creative person Andy dark, created a portrait of ruler Elizabeth II of Britain by stitching together 1,000 utilised tea bags.

10. Carbon paper was patented on October 7th 1806 by Ralph Wedgewood of London, England

11. During his entire life, artist Vincent Van Gogh traded just one decorating; Red Vineyard at Arles

12. In 1658 the first illustrated publication for children was published in Germany.

13. Mental sickness may be profoundly to blame for the creation and enduring attractiveness of Expressionism. Van Gogh's well-documented mental instability, and Edvard Munch's traumatic childhood and enduring neuroses helped to churn out some of the Expressionists' most significant works. Munch acknowledged that his mental illness was part of his genius, "I would not cast off my illness, for there is much in my art that I owe to it."

14. On 20th November 1929 Spanish surrealist creative person Salvador Dali held his first one-man show in Paris, France

15.The large canvases Jackson Pollock utilised for his Abstract Expressionist activity paintings were usually prepared flat on the floor while he painted. Pollock was a string of links smoker and would frequently decorate with a tobacco hanging from his lips. This commanded to the intriguing incorporation of tobacco ashes into the exterior of some of his greatest works.

16. Picasso could draw before he could walk, and his first word was the Spanish phrase for pencil.

17. The phrase 'cartoon' originally comes from decorating periodinology? The period 'cartoon' connects to a preliminary, but completely worked, sketch from which the outlines could be moved to be the cornerstone of a conceive for a fresco or decorating.


18. When Auguste Rodin displayed his first significant work, The Bronze time span, in 1878 it was so very sensible that people considered he had forfeited a reside model interior the cast.

19. The world famous Louvre Museum and Art Gallery in Paris, France was built in 1190 and was utilised as a fortress.

20. Rodin died of frostbite in 1917 when the French government denied him economic help for a flat, yet they kept his figurines affectionately housed in museums.

21. That in 1495 Leonardo da Vinci conceived a pyramid-shaped parachute, and began decorating The Last Supper.

22. Left-handed painter, Michelangelo, painted his well known David and Goliath with David holding his sling in his left hand.

23. Another famous left-hander, Leonardo da Vinci, composed all of his individual remarks from right to left, forcing those who read them to use a mirror.

24. Pablo Picasso loved animals. Through his mature person life he belongs to a favourite monkey, an owl, a goat, a turtle and loads of canines and cats. He was known to depart his studio windows open and to paint the pigeons that took flight through.

25. The first pencil was created in England in 1565

26. The period Art Nouveau was taken from the title of a shop that opened in Paris in 1895. In France, Art Nouveau is referred to as 'Modern Style'.

27. Vincent Van Gogh pledged suicide while decorating Wheat Field with Crows.

28. In 1961 Georges Braque was the first living artist to have his work displayed in the Louvre. In supplement to painting, Braque furthermore designed stage groups, costumes and showed publications.

29. Impressionism was granted its name from one of Monet's images, Impression: Sunrise.

30. persons have been decorating things for the past 20,000 years, but it wasn't until 1880 that you could buy prepared blended paints.

31. Genghis Khan forever impacted Eastern porcelain by inserting the Chinese to cobalt blue, which he carried from Iran.

32. In all of Dali's paintings you can find a self-portrait. That is, if you look hard you will glimpse at-least a silhouette of Dali himself.

33. Leonardo Da Vinci invented high heels

34. In the late nineteenth century the Impressionist action was primarily not obtained very well by the establishment. reconsiders were at times abusive: La Figaro, 1876, "Five or six lunatics, one of them a woman, have contacted here to exhibit their works. somebody should tell Mr. Pissarro forcibly that trees are not ever violet, the sky is not ever the hue of fresh dairy spread, that nowhere on soil are things to be glimpsed as he paints them." perhaps not, but the attractiveness of this action cannot be argued

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Heliocentrism

Heliocentrism, or heliocentricism, is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a relatively stationary Sun at the center of the Solar System. The word comes from the Greek (ἥλιος helios "sun" and κέντρον kentron "center"). Historically, heliocentrism was opposed to geocentrism, which placed the Earth at the center. The notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun had been proposed as early as the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus of Samos, but Aristarchus's heliocentrism attracted little attention until Copernicus revived and elaborated it. Lucio Russo, however, argues that this is a misleading impression resulting from the loss of scientific works of the Hellenistic Era. Using indirect evidence he argues that a heliocentric view was expounded in Hipparchus's work on gravity
It was not until the 16th century that a fully predictive mathematical model of a heliocentric system was presented, by the Renaissance mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic cleric Nicolaus Copernicus of Poland, leading to the Copernican Revolution. In the following century, Johannes Kepler elaborated upon and expanded this model to include elliptical orbits, and supporting observations made using a telescope were presented by Galileo Galilei.
To anyone who stands and looks up at the sky, it seems that the Earth stays in one place, while everything in the sky rises in the east and sets in the west once a day. With more scrutiny, however, one will observe more complicated movements. The positions at which the Sun and moon rise change over the course of a year, some planets and stars do not appear at all for many months, and planets sometimes appear to have moved in the reverse direction for a while, relative to the background stars.
As these motions became better understood, more elaborate descriptions were required, the most famous of which was the geocentric Ptolemaic system, which achieved its full expression in the 2nd century. The Ptolemaic system was a sophisticated astronomical system that managed to calculate the positions for the planets to a fair degree of accuracy. Ptolemy himself, in his Almagest, points out that any model for describing the motions of the planets is merely a mathematical device, and since there is no actual way to know which is true, the simplest model that gets the right numbers should be used.However, he rejected the idea of a spinning earth as absurd as he believed it would create huge winds. His planetary hypotheses were sufficiently real that the distances of moon, sun, planets and stars could be determined by treating orbits' celestial spheres as contiguous realities. This made the stars' distance less than 20 Astronomical Units, a regression, since Aristarchus of Samos's heliocentric scheme had centuries earlier necessarily placed the stars at least two orders of magnitude more distant.

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The Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is a fragment of a stela, a free-standing stone inscribed with Egyptian governmental or religious records.

It’s made of black basalt and weighs about three-quarters of a ton (0.680 metric tons).

The stone is 118 cm (46.5 in.) high, 77 cm. (30 in.) wide and 30 cm. (12 in.) deep — roughly the size of a medium-screen LCD television or a heavy coffee table

But what’s inscribed on the Rosetta Stone is far more significant than its composition. It features three columns of inscriptions, each relaying the same message but in three different languages:

Greek, hieroglyphics and Demotic. Scholars used the Greek and Demotic inscriptions to make sense of the hieroglyphic alphabet.

 By using the Rosetta Stone as a translation device, scholars revealed more than1,400 years of ancient Egyptian secrets

Museum Image Gallery: Rosetta Stone on display in British Museum

The discovery and translation of the Rosetta Stone are as fascinating as the translations that resulted from the stone. 

 Controversial from the start, it was unearthed as a result of warfare and Europe’s quest for world domination.

 . Its translation continued to cause strife between nations, and even today, scholars debate who should be credited with the triumph of solving the hieroglyphic code.

  Even the stone’s current location is a matter of debate. This artifact has long held a powerful grip over history and politics.

 Since 1802, the Rosetta Stone has occupied a space in London’s British Museum.

                           

                             

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