Once upon a time, there was this boy who wanted to be part of the World, sharing ideas, thoughts, and all that goes with a thing called life!
Breathtaking buildings, where architecture meets its zenith… But this is just a glimpse of architecture zenith in the World.
This post was based on the PowerPoint presentation that you can find here: https://slideplayer.com.br/amp/10451635/
I do not know its author!
10 Special Places, Worldwide!
1 – Rocas Baimbridgen – Galapagos – Ecuador
2 – Nyiragongo Crater – Africa
3 – Navagio Beach – Greece
4 – Havasu – Arizona Falls – USA
5 – Mont Saint Michel – France
6 – Death Valley – California – USA
7 – Pamukkale – Turkey
8 – The steps of India – India
9 – Blue Lake Cave – Bonito – Brazil
10 – Palau – Micronesia
An amazing compilation, even though there are other amazing places left out from this selection, which was not made by me, but had to be shared! Hope you enjoy it… And dream a bit for the next escape after this pandemic is over!
It is a single stretch of road near Bregagh Armoy in County Antrim, Ireland. The beeches that protect the road have grown too close together, competing for the light. The trees were planted by a family to decorate the access to their Georgian mansion many years ago. Today, the road is one of the most photographed postcard in Ireland.
Everything was pure aridity in the Gerlach area, near Nevada, until a group of men decided to drill insearch of water for their livestock and crops. What they found was thermal water that, since then, emanates from the rocky terrain, initiating a sedimentation process capable of forming a natural sculpture that looks more like a fantasy landscape. Today, it’s almost a tourist attraction, but it was all an accidental fluke.
In the region of El Bierzo, in the province of León, there is an incredible natural place, although the curious mountain shapes were originated by the gold mining carried out by the Romans in that place.
This time, nature adapted to the passage of man in the form of a train. In a dense forest, along a railway track, a tunnel was formed that fits the train, a leafy gallery known as the “Tunnel of Love“!
This time, the “accident” did not involve the hand of man, but the tireless work of Nature for hundreds or thousands of years.
A little over a century ago, in an area near Austin, Texas, an underground river (after having eroded a cavity for thousands of years) caused a landslide that gave way to a small sheltered oasis, with calm waters, a waterfall and vegetation which is seen as a completely unusual place.
Taken from a PowerPoint presentation that can be found here https://fdocumentos.com/document/maravilhas-por-acidente-58a740fba27bc.html.
A big thank you to Linito for amazing work!
Based from the PowerPoint: https://slideplayer.com/slide/14399896/ by Superman Tedja
BEYOND INTERESTING IS CULTURE!
The islands where the USA and Russia meet, and the East becomes West!
Two continents, two countries
Two cultures, two regimes
There is a place in the world where the territories of the United States and Russia are less than 4 km away, but any route between them will be 24 hours apart…
We are talking about the unknown and isolated Diomede Islands, in the Bering Strait, the inhospitable sea portion that separates Alaska from the far east of Asia, where probably the first inhabitants of America crossed into these lands.
North American territory!
The two islands, known as Big Diomede and Little Diomede, are separated by a strip of water of only 4 km, which is frozen during a good part of the year, allowing the passage on foot between them. The curious thing is that Big Diomede is the most easterly point in Russia, and Little Diomede is the most western point in the United States.
During the Cold War period, the natives who inhabited the islands before Russian or American colonization were not allowed to move between the islands, nor to exchange any type of information, in the area that became known as “Ice Curtain”.
After the end of World War II, all the natives of the Russian island of Big Diomede were transferred to the mainland, and the archipelago maintained a small settlement only on the North American island of Little Diomede, which today has about 170 inhabitants, in one of the locations most isolated on the planet.
What makes the place even more curious is that exactly between the two islands the “International Date Line” passes, creating a time zone of no less than 24 hours in a distance that is so small that it is so visual.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line
In 1987, an emblematic event brought small islands to the headlines around the world. American swimmer Lynne Cox crossed the little more than 3,700 meters that separate the sister islands, in a gesture of approximation between the superpowers that were striving to strengthen ties that had been so long apart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Cox
Today, in times of peace, there are several projects to create monuments that would symbolize peace between the two countries. In a recent contest, a project called “Bridge of Memory”, linking the two islands, was among the champions, in what would be the first link between America and Asia after tens of thousands of years.
Umberto Eco, in his novel “L’isola del giorno prima” explores the idiosyncrasies of living in Diomede very well…
[…] Midnight on Friday, here on the ship, it is midnight on Thursday on the island. […] If you travel from America to Asia, you lose a day; if, in the opposite direction, you travel, you win one day: that is why Daphne [the ship] traveled the way of Asia, and you, stupid, the way of America. You are now a day older than me! It’s not funny? […]
A History teacher asks if he or she can explain this …
… but I don’t think they can do it.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were very concerned with, above all, civil rights.
Both of their wives lost children while they inhabited the white house.
Both Presidents were murdered on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
And now it becomes more strange:
Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy,
Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were murdered by someone from the southern states.
Both Presidents were succeeded by a southern man named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
London Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who murdered Lincoln, was born in 1839…
Lee Harvey Oswald, who murdered Kennedy, was born in 1939…
Both assassins were known by their 3 names.
Both of their names consisted of 15 letters.
And now, hold on:
Lincoln was murdered in a theater called “Ford”
Kennedy was murdered in a Lincoln brand car made by “Ford”
Lincoln was murdered in a theater and his murderer ran to a warehouse to hide.
Kennedy was murdered from a warehouse and his murderer fled to a theater and hid there.
Booth and Oswald were murdered before their lawsuit.
And here’s the icing on the cake….
1 week before Lincoln was murdered, he was in Monroe, Maryland
1 week before Kennedy was murdered, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
Who researched all this?
Amazing:
1) Fold a $20 bill in two parts…
2) Fold it again and take care to fold it exactly as in the image below:
3) Fold the other part as it is here:
4) Now turn it over…
What a coincidence! A simple geometric fold of a $20 dollar bill reveals a catastrophe, visible on all $20 dollar bills !!!
Coincidence?
Well, you decide…
If this was still not enough, this is what you saw:
First: the burning Pentagon…
Then, the Twin Towers…
And look here … !!!
Three incidental disasters on a $20 dollar bill?
Disaster 1 (Pentagon)
Disaster 2 (Twin Towers)
Disaster 3 (Osama) ???
And it gets even better: 11 + 9 = $20 !!
(9/11 = September 11, the day of the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon)
Strange, huh?
This is a history lesson, which people don’t mind reading!
ALEM DE INTERESSANTE É CULTURA!
As ilhas onde EUA e Rússia se encontram, e o Leste se torna Oeste
As ilhas Diomedes no horizonte
Dois continentes, dois países
Duas culturas, dois regimes
Há um lugar no mundo em que os territórios dos Estados Unidos e da Rússia estão a menos de 4 km de distância, mas qualquer percurso entre eles terá uma diferença de 24 horas…
Localização das ilhas Diomedes, perdidas entre 2 continentes
Estamos falando das desconhecidas e isoladas Ilhas Diomedes, no Estreito de Bering, a inóspita porção marítima que separa o Alasca do extremo leste da Ásia, por onde provavelmente os primeiros habitantes da América atravessaram para estas terras.
Na Pequena Diomedes, seus habitantes espremem-se na íngreme encosta
território norte-americano
As duas Ilhas, conhecidas como Grande Diomedes e Pequena Diomedes são separadas por uma faixa de água de apenas 4 km, que fica congelada durante boa parte do ano, permitindo a passagem a pé entre elas. O curioso é saber que Grande Diomedes é o ponto mais a leste na Rússia, e Pequena Diomedes é o ponto mais a oeste dos Estados Unidos.
Guerra Fria, um período para ser esquecido
Durante o período da Guerra Fria, os nativos que habitavam as ilhas antes da colonização russa ou americana não podiam circular entre as ilhas, nem trocar qualquer tipo de informação, na área que ficou conhecida como “Cortina de Gelo”.
O povoado de Pequena Diomedes, com apenas 170 habitantes
Após o final da 2a Guerra, todos os nativos da ilha russa de Grande Diomedes foram transferidos para o continente, e o arquipélago manteve um pequeno povoado apenas na ilha norte americana de Pequena Diomedes, que até hoje possui cerca de 170 habitantes, num dos locais mais isolados do planeta.
Detalhe de Pequena Diomedes. Não parece nada agradável
O que torna o lugar ainda mais curioso é que exatamente entre as duas ilhas passa a “Linha Internacional de Data”, criando um fuso horário de nada menos que 24 horas numa distância que de tão pequena chega a ser visual.
A Linha Internacional de Data passa exatamente entre as ilhas
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linha_Internacional_de_Data
Em 1987, um evento emblemático levou as pequenas ilhas às manchetes do mundo inteiro. A nadadora americana Lynne Cox atravessou os pouco mais de 3.700 metros que separam as ilhas irmãs, num gesto de aproximação entre as super potências que se esforçavam para estreitar os laços a tanto tempo separados.
Lynne Cox, um gesto caloroso em águas a 4ºC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Cox
Hoje, em tempos de paz, há vários projetos para criar monumentos que simbolizariam a paz entre os dois países. Num recente concurso , um projeto chamado de “Ponte da Memória”, ligando as duas ilhas, ficou entre os campeões, no que seria a primeira ligação entre América e Ásia depois de dezenas de milhares de anos.
Projeto para Ponte entre as ilhas, conhecida como “Ponte da Memória”
Detalhe do Projeto. Uma fantástica obra de engenharia para poucos conhecerem
Humberto Eco, em seu romance “A Ilha do dia anterior” explora muito bem as idiossincrasias de viver em Diomede…
Humberto Eco escreveu sobre o tempo
“Meia-noite de sexta-feira, aqui no navio, é meia-noite de quinta-feira na ilha. Se da América para a Ásia viajas, perdes um dia; se, no sentido contrário viajas, ganhas um dia: eis o motivo por que o [navio] Daphne percorreu o caminho da Ásia, e vós, estúpidos, o caminho da América. Tu és agora um dia mais velho do que eu! Não é engraçado?”
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