Recently, the Committee decided to open up to new categories such as cultural landscapes and routes, industrial heritage (for example, this year, Ivrea, the industrial city of the 20th century, in Italy), deserts, marine sites coastal and small island sites, so that the list is more diverse and more representative of World Heritage. The sites proposed for inscription must meet at least one of the ten selection criteria, such as, for example, representing a masterpiece of human creative genius, testifying to an exchange of influences during History, to bear exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a living or extinct civilization, or else to represent natural phenomena of exceptional beauty and aesthetic importance or, of course, to be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes … Italy is the country with the largest number (54), followed by China (53), Spain (47), France (44), Germany (44), and finally, Mexico (35).
China: Fanjingshan, a very rare ecosystemSouth Korea: the Sansa, mountain Buddhist monasteriesFrance: the Chaine des Puys Tectonic High Place – Limagne FaultIndonesia: Heritage of the Ombilin coal mine in SawahluntoAustralia: Budj Bim Cultural LandscapeColombia: Chiribiquete National Park and “The Maloca of the Jaguars”Czech Republic: Landscape of breeding and training of ceremonial carriage horses in Kladruby nad LabemChina: Archaeological ruins of the city of LiangzhuTurkey: Göbekli Tepe and its mysterious templeLaos: Xieng Khouang Megalithic Jar Sites – Plain of JarsBurkina Faso: Ancient iron metallurgy sitesDenmark: Aasivissuit-Nipisat, Inuit hunting groundsAzerbaijan: Historic Center of Sheki with the Khan’s PalaceOman: the ancient city of QalhatIndia: City of Jaipur, RajasthanSouth Africa: the mountains of Barberton MakhonjwaBahrain: Tombs of the Dilmun cultureCanada: Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’piGermany: the border archaeological complex of Hedeby and the DanevirkeJapan: Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Set: Ancient Japanese Burial MoundsSpain: the caliphal city of Medina AzaharaSpain: Cultural Landscape of Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran CanariaItaly: The Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and ValdobbiadeneIran: The Sasanian Archaeological Landscape of the Fars RegionMexico: the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley and its original habitat in MesoamericaThe 20th Century Architectural Works of Frank Lloyd WrightIraq: BabylonMyanmar: BaganUnited Kingdom: Jodrell Bank ObservatoryCzech Republic: Mining region Erzgebirge/KrušnohoříPoland: Prehistoric striped flint mining region of KrzemionkiPortugal: Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in BragaKorea: Seowon, Korean Neo-Confucian AcademiesPortugal: Mafra Royal Building – Palace, Basilica, Convent, Cerco Garden and Hunting Park (Tapada)Russia: Churches of the Pskov School of ArchitectureIceland: Vatnajökull National Park – the dynamic nature of fire and iceChina: Migratory bird sanctuary along the coastline of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai GulfFrance: French Southern Lands and SeasBrazil: Paraty and Ilha Grande – culture and biodiversity
Playwright Jim Sherman wrote this after Hu Jintao was named chief of the Communist Party in China.
“HU’S ON FIRST
By James Sherman
(We take you now to the Oval Office.)
George: Condi! Nice to see you. What’s happening?
Condi: Sir, I have the report here about the new leader of China.
George: Great. Lay it on me.
Condi: Hu is the new leader of China.
George: That’s what I want to know.
Condi: That’s what I’m telling you.
George: That’s what I’m asking you. Who is the new leader of China?
Condi: Yes.
George: I mean the fellow’s name.
Condi: Hu.
George: The guy in China.
Condi: Hu.
George: The new leader of China.
Condi: Hu.
George: The Chinaman!
Condi: Hu is leading China.
George: Now whaddya’ asking me for?
Condi: I’m telling you Hu is leading China.
George: Well, I’m asking you. Who is leading China?
Condi: That’s the man’s name.
George: That’s who’s name?
Condi: Yes.
George: Will you or will you not tell me the name of the new leader of China?
Condi: Yes, sir.
George: Yassir? Yassir Arafat is in China? I thought he was in the Middle East.
Condi: That’s correct.
George: Then who is in China?
Condi: Yes, sir.
George: Yassir is in China?
Condi: No, sir.
George: Then who is?
Condi: Yes, sir.
George: Yassir?
Condi: No, sir.
George: Look, Condi. I need to know the name of the new leader of China. Get me the Secretary General of the U.N. on the phone.
Condi: Kofi?
George: No, thanks.
Condi: You want Kofi?
George: No.
Condi: You don’t want Kofi.
George: No. But now that you mention it, I could use a glass of milk. And then get me the U.N.
Condi: Yes, sir.
George: Not Yassir! The guy at the U.N.
Condi: Kofi?
George: Milk! Will you please make the call?
Condi: And call who?
George: Who is the guy at the U.N?
Condi: Hu is the guy in China.
George: Will you stay out of China?!
Condi: Yes, sir.
George: And stay out of the Middle East! Just get me the guy at the U.N.
Condi: Kofi.
George: All right! With cream and two sugars. Now get on the phone.
(Condi picks up the phone.)
Condi: Rice, here.
George: Rice? Good idea. And a couple of egg rolls, too. Maybe we should send some to the guy in China. And the Middle East. Can you get Chinese food in the Middle East?
Many times (almost always) every time we watch a documentary or we read a history book, we take that information as if was a concrete fact without questioning anything about it and we assimilate as if it were the absolute truth.
In this case, today we will talk about the pyramids and some data quite interesting.
Official history tells us that the pyramids of Egypt were made by slaves sent to be built tombs for their pharaohs (Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure). It is estimated that they were made approx. 5,000 years.
So let’s review how the pyramids are built having consider the Great Pyramid.
It is made up of 2,300,000 stone blocks ranging from 2.5 to 60 tons. 60 tons … it would be like moving the weight equivalent to 12 trucks together…
So what does the official story tell us? That the pyramids were built by slaves in a period 20 years approx. If we calculate the speed with which the stones should be placed taking into account the 2,300,000 stones, while they worked 10 hours a day every day of the week, 365 days a year, they had to put one stone on top of another every 2 minutes … A stone every two minutes … Stones ranging from 2.5 tons to 60 tons …
Another interesting fact about the pyramid is that if we see it from its highest point, the tip of the pyramid is offset by 6 millimeters from the base! 6 millimeters of error … after putting 2,300,000 stones at a height of almost 150 meters … Not even our most “modern” buildings have that precision, in fact, we are very far from matching that.
Researchers say the pyramids were built as graves. When they discovered the pyramids they had to use dynamite on some to enter because there was no entrance anywhere. Upon entering they found the sarcophagus with an earthenware of various tons on top that sealed it, but when they managed to get it out there there was no mummy inside. What is the explanation they gave?… Tomb desecrators! S,o in theory, the defilers got in (who knows how since there was no entrance to the pyramids) they raised the earthenware of several tons (I wonder how) they took out everything there inside, they put the china back, and they left… It has no sense.
Another interesting fact is that we know that the Egyptians painted hieroglyphs EVERYWHERE …
They told us EVERYTHING about their life, even how they bathed … but in NOT ONE SIDE tells how they made the pyramids. And more importantly … THERE WAS NOT ANOTHER hieroglyph painted inside the pyramids!
We know that the pyramids are aligned with the constellation of Orion…
They tell us that the slaves built the pyramids using ramps, pulleys, copper tools, wooden logs, etc. and the “funny thing” is that today with all our current technology it would be impossible for us to make a replica of the pyramids with that immense precision possessed by those of Egypt.
The official theory is as the sentence goes: a theory, nobody assures how the pyramids were built, moreover, every time there are new theories in the archaeological world. Anyway we see in the History or Discovery or in the books of history as they speak as if the official theory were fact.
Let’s continue in Egypt with the Sphinx
Have you ever thought how the Sphinx was made? Obviously one would think that it was assembled in parts but it is not like that, the sphinx is a SINGLE CARVED BLOCK… And how did they move such a weight? I don’t think they had one of these in those days.
Even with the most powerful crane we have today, we could not move that weight we can barely lift even more do pirouettes in the air… and especially while we are in LA ARENA … but it seems that Egyptian slaves moved that weight as they pleased.
The statue of Ramses II
When they found the statue of Ramses II on the ground they decided to move it just to build the Ramses Museum. But it turns out that the monument is a solid block of approx 1000 tons. So when they realized that it was going to be impossible for them to move the statue without cutting it into pieces they decided to build the museum around where the statue was located.
Let’s move on to the The Mortuary Temple of Seti I (aka The Temple of Osiris), in Abydos
LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING 5 IMAGES and the drawing:
What can be appreciated is not a painting … it is a carving. And this drawing seems to be carved with several centimeters of depth, that is, if we cut a piece of stone the drawing would still appear … Scientists have no idea how they did it, they say that the drawing is BURNT on the rock, there is no way that we can do that today.
The Flower of Life
“The Flower of Life is a secret symbol created by the inscription of 13 circles of the Flower of Life. By doing this, one can discover the most important and sacred model in the universe. “ A symbol that we find in all parts of the World. Da Vinci dedicated many studies to him
If we go to China to the “Forbidden City of China”, we find ourselves with the “Lions of Fu”
And what is under the claws?!…
The Flower of Life…
Let’s go back to Egypt A submerged “city” was recently discovered near Alexandria called Thônis-Heracleion.
Many ancient cultures viewed the lion as the guardian of the knowledge! How many similar monuments we see in cities daily, but it all comes from an ancient tradition.
It’s obvious that it can’t be a coincidence… If we go from Egypt to Mexico… At the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacán…
We can see that their shrines were also aligned with the constellation Orion!
And that even the dimensions of the base of the pyramids are similar!!!
So how can it be that 2 cultures that according to the history books had nothing to do with each other and lived at different times build semi-identical monuments aligned with the stars? It would be a lot of coincidence… But it obviously doesn’t end here, it’s not even close to beginning… Hundreds of similar constructions between different cultures can be found in all parts of the World.
Let’s look at the Mayans and the Balinese (Indonesia)
All over the planet we can find pyramids!!!
Pyramids in China
The Chinese government denies the existence of the pyramids and even planted vegetation in one of them to try to hide it but they couldn’t hide it forever anyway. Who knows why they don’t want the world to know.
Pyramids in Italy
There are many archaeologists, scientists, researchers, etc. that are trying to bring this out into the open and there are others who CLAIM that the supposed pyramids are just natural mountains …
Please don’t tell me that the natural mountains lined Nature with Orion…
Submerged pyramids have been found in Yonaguni (Japan)
When they did carbon dating of the coral that formed under the pyramids from the moment of sinking gave them that: pyramids submerged about 10,000 years ago…
Pyramids in Antarctica
When I found out about this I thought it might be another one of the “things” that one sees on the internet but, researching more on the subject, I was surprised the number of archaeologists talking about this and I found a report on the RAI channel which surprised me. Scientists are alarmed that Antarctica is melting faster than they thought and beyond the consequences that that may bring us… and it is revealing incredible secrets to us.
A lot of things are coming to light lately, who knows what we can get to find out soon. Clearly we still don’t know our own World … Not what happened on this planet so many thousands of years ago … or maybe some do know?
Cueva de los Tayos (Ecuador)
300 ENIGMATIC PIECES IN THE JUNGLE OF ECUADOR In 1984 an impressive discovery in the jungle of Ecuador, in the Cueva de los Tayos, in a town called La Maná, convulsed the world of forbidden archeology, while – for course- they once again concealed the fact to keep us in the historical amnesia with which they always want to “sleep us”.
Pay attention to the latter… This piece is called the “Black Pyramid of the Son of the Creator“ It is so called because the translation of the inscriptions in the stone says: “The son of the creator comes from here“! The stone is black and white, with a brick pyramid with thirteen levels recorded on it. There is also a cleverly inlaid eye on top of the pyramid.
Something interesting, if we turn off the light and apply ultraviolet light …
But if you think this is interesting, wait until you see what its found when the stone pyramid it’s turned over:
The constellation of Orion
Clearly Orion meant something very important to the ancient civilizations But that’s what I was going for with this particular case … We really don’t know anything about what happened thousands of years ago…? Or if are there people who do know? Let’s take a good look at this next pyramid…
Have we not seen thousands of times the symbol of the pyramid and the eye?
Both the dollar pyramid and the mana artifact count with 13 steps! “The pyramid and the eye” is one of the symbols used by the current freemasonry…
Clearly this symbology dates back thousands of years and who knows how many thousands of years ago … Will it be that a few were passing the knowledge of generation after generation for thousands of years? What happened to all those ancient cultures so advanced? Did the Egyptians build the pyramids?… Or the pyramids already were there when the Egyptians arrived? Simple coincidences? … Or was there an ancient global civilization a thousand years ago? Or even some certain knowledge that was applied by all cultures through time?
This was taken from a PDF sent to me a few years ago which, its author, unfortunately, was not identified.
I was loved archaeology mysteries and what came to my mind, when I read this nowadays, was the funny thing that there are still so many archaeological findings wrapped in mystery…
So, I hope you enjoy this post and, if by some funny circumstance you are the author of this crazily awesome compilation of historic mysteries, please contact me!
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”
Wonders of modern architectureThe Cybertecture Egg – Mumbai, IndiaGrand Lisbon – Macau, ChinaBullring & Grand Central – Birmingham, United KingdomBMW Welt – Munich, GermanyMoPOP Museum (Museum of Pop Culture) – Seattle, USAMumbai Convention Centre – Mumbai, IndiaSage Gateshead – Gateshead, United KingdomUSAFA Cadet Chapel – Colorado, USAUniversum Bremen – Bremen, GermanyFuji TV Building – Tokyo, Japan30 St. Mary Axe aka The Gherkin – London, United KingdomLotus Temple – Delhi, IndiaNational Centre of the Performing Arts – Beijing, ChinaBanknote Building – Kaunas, LithuaniaPalais Bulles – Cannes, FranceThe Auditorio de Tenerife “Adán Martín” – Canary Islands, SpainThe Seashell House – Isla Mujeres, MexicoTorre Galatea – Figueres, SpainCurve House – Sopot, PolandTerracotta House – Leyva, ColombiaCathedral of Brasília – Brasilia, BrazilCape Romano Dome House – Florida, USAEarth House – Lostorf, SwitzerlandThe Eden Project – Cornwall, United KingdomChapel of the Holy Cross – Arizona, USADruzhba Holiday Center Hall – Yalta, RussiaPalais Idéal du Facteur Cheval – Hauterives, FranceOlympic Stadium – Montreal, CanadaNational Library of Republic of Belarus – Minsk, BelarusWonderWorks Pigeon Froge – Tennesse, USASteam World Museum – Gramado, BrazilThe Piano Building – Huainan, ChinaGreat Mosque of Djenné – Djenné, MaliChang Building aka Elephant Building – Bangkok, ThailandThe Dancing House aka Fred and Ginger – Prague, Czech RepublicKunsthaus Graz: Contemporary Art – Graz, AustriaLa Tête Carrée – Nice, FranceCasa do Penedo – Fafe, PortugalRipley’s Believe it or Not – Ontario, CanadaSnail House – Sofia, BulgariaHouse Attack – Vienna, AustriaHằng Nga Guesthouse – Da Lat, VietnamHabitat 67 – Montreal, CanadaSutyagin House – Anchangelsk, RussiaCube House – Rotterdam, NetherlandsHeliodyssee: Grand Four Solaire of Odeillo – Odeillo, FrançaFlintstone House – California, USARobert Harvey Oshatz – Oregon, USABunker House – Illinois, USABeijing National Stadium aka Bird’s Nest – Beijing, ChinaEND…
Breathtaking buildings, where architecture meets its zenith… But this is just a glimpse of architecture zenith in the World.
Prague Siroka 96Prague, Czech RepublicDragon Door at Krumlov House, CzechiaBrewery street in PragueArt Nouveau – Maison ‘aux Grenouilles – Bielsko Biała – PolognePena Palace, Sintra, PortugalPortal of the Monastery of Batalha, Batalha, Leiria, PortugalJeronimos monastery Lisbon – PortugalGdansk , PolandPolandPoland.Art Nouveau Door – Krakow, PolandGdansk, PolandBucharest, RomaniaBucharest, Romania Latvia~Riga.Art Deco Door – Ystad, SwedenHelsinki , FinlandCopenhagen, Denmark. It’s more than a piece of wood-jaw drops.Viking Door, Stockholm, SwedenDresden, Saxony, GermanyArt Nouveau door-BerlinHamburg , GermanyArt Nouveau in BrusselsDen Haag, HollandCanterbury. England built in 1647Wirksworth, EnglandDublin, IrelandLouvre door, ParisParis at 29 Avenue a few steps from the Eiffel TowerANGELS GUARD THEE. Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.Venice, ItalyNaples, ItalyPistoia, ItalyLa Spezia, Liguria, ItalyLa Spezia, Liguria, ItalyBarcelona , Roger de Llúria 010Barcelona – Tapioles 012Art nouveau door, casa Reus, SpainMilan, ItalyBlue Door, Venice, ItalyCrete, GreeceIstanbulBeyazıt, IstanbulArt Nouveau door in Istanbul, TurkeyTurkeyBalat, IstanbulGreen Door IstanbulKabardinka, RussiaKremlin of Ryaza, RussianDacha carved doors, RussiaDoor in RussiaStaraya Ladoga, RussiaDoors in Rostov, RussiaKhiva, UzbekistanTatarstan, RussiaChina.Shanghai, ChinaChinaChina Wrought Iron, Iron Door …Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, IndiaBlue door in Pushkar, Rajasthan, IndiaMonkey Temple’ (Swayambunath Stupa), Kathmandu, NepalBali, the Asian Art MuseumRoyal door, Bangkok,Sing Buri, ThailandThailandPutrajaya MalaysiaPersian entranceIntricate Door, Jerusalem, IsraelIn Israel there is a city of blue-doors and a history touching upon some of the greatest Jewish mystical schools.Jaffa, İsrailCairo, EgyptThere are big doors and small doors. Wisdom is knowing which one to take, when. In Tunis, TunisiaDogon people of MaliDogon door, MaliAfrica , Dogon door, MaliTaroudant, MoroccoFez, MoroccoYoruba people of northern Ekiti Region of NigeriaHarbel, LiberiaBell Tower Door Westminster School Atlanta GAMain Door, Mission San Jose, San Antonio, TexasSanta-Fe,-New-Mexico,-USASan Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, MexicoPuebla, MexicoMedellin Colombia.Havana, Cuba
The children of Gulu, in China, need to walk for 5 hours along the side of cliffs, on a trail that in some places does not exceed 50 centimetres in width, in order to reach their school.Children from the village of Zhangguying in China, to go to school, climb wooden stairs without any protection.Children and their relatives use an ice path to reach the Zanskar boarding school in the Indian Himalayas.Male and female students cross a ruined suspension bridge in Lebrak, IndonesiaChildren forced to go to school through a steel cable suspended more than 800 meters above the Rio Negro in ColombiaRiau’s children in Indonesia go to school by canoe.A crossing over the molded roots of giant trees next to Mawsynram, the rainiest village in the world.A girl going to school on the back of a buffalo in Myanmar (Burma).A tuk-tuk, a 3-wheel vehicle, picks up and drives students in Beldanga, India.A father and his daughter cross a broken bridge under the snow in Dujiangyan in China’s Sichuan province.Young students traveling on the roof of a boat in Pangururan, Indonesia.Young girls pass on a board perched on a 16th century wall in Sri Lanka.A cart loaded with students in Delhi, India.Young girls cross a river on a bamboo raft in the village of Cilangkap in Indonesia.Children and adults using a path of more than 200 km through the mountains to reach the boarding school in Pili, China.Students crossing a river holding a rope in Padang, on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.Children crossing a river over inner tubes in Rizal, Philippines.We congratulate the work of the photographers for these magnificent photos and we are fascinated by the courage shown by these children who risk their lives to reach the banks of the School. Were you not impressed with these young students prepared for everything so they can quench their thirst for learning? Fantastic isn’t it? But in Portugal parents often do not support that their children have to walk 100m on foot !!! …
Translation: LOPSI
Taken from the PowerPoint made by Fernando Pires, which can be found at:
Architectural reference site praised the dynamism of the orange bridge found in Telheiras.
The orange bridge that connects Telheiras to the Torres de Lisboa was voted one of the 10 best in the world by the website Designboom, a website on art, architecture and design that is already a reference in these areas.
According to the website, the fact that the bridge is positioned on a busy highway with no columns on the road and promotes physical exercise, with ramps, stairs and spaces for bicycles, are advantages that differentiate it.
The use of side beams instead of columns in the center is also highlighted by the architecture website. The bridge is a project by Maximina Almeida + Telmo Cruz and was inaugurated in 14th February 2015.
Designboom refers to the bridge as a dynamic structure that promotes a healthy lifestyle.
In addition to the Portuguese bridge are also at the top:
The Cirkelbroen Bridge in Copenhagen, Denmark.The iron bridge that was created using 3D printing technology. This bridge is placed in the center of Amsterdam, Holland.The Danjiang Bridge in Taiwan.The “Bat” Bridge, in Monster, Holland, which was built to be a bat shelter.The Nomanslanding Dome Bridge, a movable bridge built for the Ruhrtriennale Festival in Germany. The sphere in the middle of the bridge can be separated into two, making it a point to watch the water or cross.The Nine Elms Bridge to Pimlico, which is still a project, will be the first bridge without cars, only for pedestrians and cyclists, in London, England.The Glass Bridge in Shiniuzhai National Park, China. that allows to pass over the space between two precipices.The Butterfly Bridge in Denmark. The name of the bridge is explained by the shape it takes when the two wings rise together or one at a time.And the bridge of the project of the company Niall Mclaughlin Architects, in the competition for the construction of a passage on the coast of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, next to Tintagel Castle, opened on august 2019.
This is based on an e-mail I received a few years back, so I had to search for the nowadays bridges! Do not know the original author, but I thank him/her/it for the amazing information!
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