Monsanto was voted in 1938 the “most Portuguese village in Portugal” nestles on the slope of a steep hill (the Monsanto head, known in Latin as Mons Sanctus) , which rises abruptly above the prairy and reaches a height of 758 meters 2486 feet).)The most typical aspect of Monsanto is the fact that the village developed around impressively big and ... Read More »
In 1890 there were 72 bathhouses inthe city, with different range of quality and cleanliness. These days only 31 public bathhouses have been identified as remaining. However, at around 1920 there were around 85 bathhouse keepers . Public bathhouses are an ancient tradition in this part of the world that in many areas still form part of people’s daily lives. ... Read More »
A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. Each book is specified by an International Standard Book Number, or ISBN, ... Read More »
A Baton Rouge restaurant is getting a flurry of media attention after one of its cooks found the word “GOD” legible in the seeds of an eggplant during dinner prep Monday. Jermarcus Brady had already sliced and begun sautéing about five eggplants at Gino’s Restaurant when he noticed the seed configuration. Since photos of the eggplant slice appeared on personal ... Read More »
There have been conflicting reports about a truck filled with bags of money totaling 8 billion tomans was spotted due to a accident in the kahkiluye province. ANA news agency first reported the news and continued to say, that there where no reports of bank robberies in the area. On the other hand khabaronline several days later reported that this ... Read More »
Kopi luwak (Indonesian pronunciation) or civet coffee, refers to the seeds of coffee berries once they have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet. The name is also used for marketing brewed coffee made from the beans.Producers of the coffee beans argue that the process may improve coffee through two mechanisms, selection and digestion. Passing through a civet’s ... Read More »
Hamid Reza Ebrahimi is a famous scriber, who had practice at first calligrapher to have over 800 hours of calligraphy could use his fingers as pen.He is a calligraphy from many years ago . He said that he decided one day to picked razor nails into a reed pen took one and a half inches . A few simple preparations ... Read More »
The Turkoman horse, or Turkmene, was an Oriental horse breed from the steppes of Central Asia, now extinct. They influenced many other horse breeds, including the Thoroughbred horse. Some horses bred in our homeland and Turkmenistan today are still referred to as Turkoman, and have similar characteristics. It had a slender body, similar to a greyhound. Although refined in appearance, the breed ... Read More »
Even though we consider lions and other wild animals as dangerous, this story shows that it isn’t always the case. Meet 69-year-old Frikkie Von Solms, a lion caretaker who lives in Southern Africa and a man who probably knows more about lions and their behaviour than anyone else in the world because for the past 11 years he has raised ... Read More »
Until recently, it was highly unusual to see musicians playing in the streets of our homeland. But over the past year, they’ve become a rather common sight – and they’re not all trying to make money. Many established artists are doing this just for fun, says our Observer, who has catalogued this trend by posting hundreds of videos of street ... Read More »
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