Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

FASCINATING PHOTOS TAKEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY

The burning monk, 1963.

Deputy Mayor Ernst Kurt Lisso and his family after committing suicide by cyanide to avoid capture by US troops, 1945.

A guard of honour passes out as Queen Elizabeth II rides past during the Trooping the Colour parade, 1970.

Australian soldiers after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, 1945.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

10 Winter Storms That Will Convince You To Stay Inside This Winter (10 pics)

Winter is a tough season and sometimes it can get straight up deadly. We suggest that you stay inside until spring comes. 




Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Γλυπτά Παρθενώνα: 17 σημεία που πρέπει να γνωρίζουμε

Ο Παρθενώνας, έμεινε, σχεδόν, αλώβητος, από την ολοκλήρωση της οικοδόμησής του, το 431π.Χ., έως το 1687, όταν κατά τη διάρκεια του ενετοτουρκικού πολέμου, δέχτηκε το πρώτο σοβαρό πλήγμα από το βομβαρδισμό των Ενετών.
Το μνημείο έχασε μεγάλο τμήμα του γλυπτού του πλούτου, κατά τα έτη 1801-1804, όταν ο λόρδος Έλγιν, πήρε το μισό περίπου του γλυπτού του διακόσμου και να το μεταφέρει στην Αγγλία.
Με αφορμή την επίσκεψη της Αμάλ Αλαμουντίν στην Αθήνα, η οποία φέρεται να στηρίζει την επιστροφή των Γλυπτών στην Ελλάδα, ιδού τι πρέπει πάντα να θυμόμαστε όταν αναφερόμαστε στο εν λόγω θέμα:
1. Ως Ελγίνεια Μάρμαρα είναι γνωστή μία συλλογή γλυπτών που προέρχονται από την Ακρόπολη των Αθηνών τα οποία μεταφέρθηκαν στην Βρετανία το 1806 από τον Τόμας Μπρους, 7ο κόμη του Έλγιν, πρέσβη στην Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία από το 1799 μέχρι το 1803.
2. Η εν λόγω συλλογή γλυπτών περιλαμβάνει μερικά από τα γλυπτά των αετωμάτων, των μετοπών που απεικονίζουν μάχες μεταξύ των Λαπίθων και των Κενταύρων, αλλά και της Ζωφόρου του Παρθενώνα που κοσμούσε το ανώτερο τμήμα των τοίχων του σηκού του ναού σε όλο τους το μήκος.
Ως εκ τούτου, αντιπροσωπεύουν περισσότερο από το 1/2 από ό,τι απομένει από τη γλυπτική διακόσμηση του Παρθενώνα που διασώθηκε: 75 μέτρα από τα αρχικά 160 μέτρα, 15 από τις 92 μετόπες, 17 τμηματικές φιγούρες από τα αετώματα, όπως επίσης και άλλα τμήματα της αρχιτεκτονικής.
Τα αποκτήματα του Έλγιν περιλαμβάνουν ακόμη αντικείμενα από άλλα κτίρια της Αθηναϊκής Ακρόπολης: το Ερέχθειο, που μεταβλήθηκε σε ερείπιο κατά τον ελληνικό αγώνα της Ανεξαρτησίας (1821-33), τα Προπύλαια και τον Ναό της Αθηνάς Νίκης. Ο λόρδος Έλγιν πήρε περίπου τα μισά από τα γλυπτά του Παρθενώνα και από τα υπόλοιπα δημιουργήθηκαν εκμαγεία σε γύψο.
3. Εκμεταλλευόμενος την Οθωμανική ηγεμονία στην ελληνική επικράτεια, κατάφερε και απέκτησε φιρμάνι από τον Οθωμανό Σουλτάνο για την αποκαθήλωσή τους από τον Παρθενώνα με σκοπό την μέτρηση και την αποτύπωσή τους σε σχέδια, και στη συνέχεια προχώρησε στην αφαίρεση και φυγάδευσή τους. Τα γλυπτά αυτά αποθηκεύτηκαν στο Βρετανικό Μουσείο του Λονδίνου το 1816.
4. Ένα ατυχές συμβάν, που διαδραματίστηκε κατά τη διάρκεια της μεταφοράς, είναι το καλά εξιστορημένο ναυάγιο του « Μέντορα», του προσωπικού πλοίου του Έλγιν, στα ανοιχτά των Κυθήρων. Τα γλυπτά του Παρθενώνα, με τα οποία ήταν φορτωμένο, βυθίστηκαν στον πυθμένα της θάλασσας και οι Έλληνες δύτες χρειάστηκαν δυο χρόνια για να τα διασώσουν. Έως ότου ανασυρθούν όλα τα κομμάτια, όσα Μάρμαρα έβγαιναν στην επιφάνεια έπρεπε να παραμείνουν στην παραλία καλυμμένα με άμμο, φύκια και πέτρες.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Macedonia - Professor Μillers Letter to "Archaeology" Magazine


January 22, 2009
Editor, Archaeology Magazine
36-36 33 rd Street
Long Island City, NY 11106
U.S.A.

Dear Sir,

I opened the January/February issue of Archaeology today and eagerly turned to
“A Letter from Macedonia” only to discover that it was actually a letter from ancient
Paionia – the land north of Mt. Barmous and Mt. Orbelos. Livy’s account of the
creation of the Roman province of Macedonia (45.29.7 and 12) makes clear that the
Paionians lived north of those mountains (which form today the geographically natural
northern limits of Greece) and south of the Dardanians who were in today’s Kosovo.
Strabo (7. frag 4) is even more succinct in saying that Paionia was north of Macedonia
and the only connection from one to the other was (and is today) through the narrow
gorge of the Axios (or Vardar) River. In other words, the land which is described by
Matthew Brunwasser in his “Owning Alexander” was Paionia in antiquity.


While it is true that those people were subdued by Philip II, father of Alexander, in 359
B.C. (Diodorus Siculus 16.4.2), they were never Macedonians and never lived in
Macedonia. Indeed, Demosthenes (Olynthian 1.23) tells us that they were “enslaved”
by the Macedonian Philip and clearly, therefore, not Macedonians. Isokrates (5.23)
makes the same point. Likewise, for example, the Egyptians who were subdued by
Alexander may have been ruled by Macedonians, including the famous Cleopatra, but
they were never Macedonians themselves, and Egypt was never called Macedonia (and
so far as I can tell does not seek that name today).

Friday, April 25, 2014

Great History Photos (25 pics)

Collection of interesting historical photos. View from an American A-20 Havoc aircraft during a bomber run against a Japanese airfield, 1943~1945. 


The Lion Tamer of the Russian circus, Captain Jack Bonavita, poses with some of his lions. 1905.

British sailor removing the leg irons off a slave late 1800s. 
Underwater vehicle in use by the Israeli Commando unit 1967. 

Friday, April 11, 2014

Friday, April 4, 2014

Monsters The Origins - Cyclops

The cyclops is a one eyed monster introduced to the masses  by Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey. 

Cyclops at the Natural History Museum
Cyclops at the Natural History Museum

Interestingly “cyclops” means “wheel-eyed” rather than “one-eyed” but this post is not a language lesson. So, where on earth can one find a cyclops in a museum?
Look no further than the Natural History Museum in London.
Being all about the Science, the NHM actually tells you a bit about the possible origins of the cyclops story.
It turns out that the race of one-eyed giants were really mastodons – a kind of early elephant. Don’t believe me? Then look at this skull!

Mastodon skull
Mastodon skull

The big ‘eye hole’ is where the trunk was and, in case you were wondering, this skull was found in Greece.
Source

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Apple buys Greek island of iOS?

Α hilarious thing happened to me yesterday. A foreign photojournalist asked me whether Greece has sold any of its islands in its effort to reduce its debt. Before I answer he said “Oh yes, it has sold one indeed. I’ve read a year ago that Apple bought a Greek island. And they then renamed it after its operating system for iPhones!” [ie iOS]. I started laughing and told him that this is not a true story but he didn’t believe me. I told him that this was definitely some kind of internet hoax, that the government can sell only small, tiny, uninhabited islands and that the Greek island of Ios, which exists indeed, has inhabitants who have been owning properties on the island for generations and that they wouldn’t sell them collectively to Apple. He understood the logical argument but he still didn’t seem eager to believe me. “But I’ve read it somewhere, I’m sure about it!” he insisted.
For the history of it, Ios is an island of 2.000 inhabitants in Cyclades island complex. It has always been called like that – according to Herodotus Ios is the burial place of Homer.
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A map of Cyclades islands (detail from a 1785 map by English map maker William Faden). Ios was called Nios at that time.
I posted this incident on my Facebook profile and kept laughing all night with the comments of my friends. We noticed that near Ios there is also the island of Milos (Milo in Greek is the word for Apple). We imagined some smartphone competition with another Cycladic island, called Andros (for Android users). And that IKEA might soon buy the island of Kea. All real, inhabited islands bearing huge marketing possibilities for the global brands. One of my friends spotted that the Ios hoax comes from an April fools’ day joke of a Swedish website (of Dagens Industri financial newspaper), published in April 2012. They were even joking about Magganari, one of the islands most famous beaches, being renamed to iBeach.
During our work with the photojournalist we interviewed a Greek woman who was saying that the crisis is in South Europe only for the moment. That the northern countries will soon have their own financial crisis and all the goodies that come with it. And then I imagined Finland in crisis. Desperate for cash to repay its debt and having its already high suicide rate quadrupled by the economic turmoil. And then, the Finnish state will decide to sell its province of Karelia to a Greek tobacco industry who will liberalise smoking laws, allowing a fag even during open heart surgeries.

Source: When the Crisis hit the Fan

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Amazing Selection of Powerful Images


Amazing selection of powerful images.

Starving boy and missionary.
Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber. 
Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner. 
Father and son (1949 vs 2009). 

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Tomb of unknown soldier from around the world

Italy
Brazil
United States of America
Venezuela
Spain
Portugal
Somalia
Japan
Estonia
Australia
Ukraine
Lithuania
Turkey
India
Germany
Belgium
Peru
Greece
Argentina
Israel
Hungary
Namibia
Serbia
Egypt
Czech Republic
Romania
Austria
Syria
Canada
Russia
Bulgaria
Poland
Indonesia
Malaysia
France
United Kingdom
Finland

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