Historical facts that will force you to take another look at the concept of time
When you begin to study history in school, it seems that the construction of the pyramids and Cleopatra was a long time ago and about the same time. The human mind is not able to experience such a large time period. But it turns out that Cleopatra compared with the pyramids is almost our contemporary. And Coca-Cola slightly younger than the state of Italy. These and other mind-blowing historical facts will make you a completely new perspective on the concept of time.
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The first Fax to a older phone
Strictly speaking, the first Fax device appeared even earlier, but a real working Fax for commercial earned first in 1865, and had connected Paris and Lyon. It was an Electromechanical device. The first membrane phone was demonstrated by Thomas Watson and Alexander Graham bell only in 1875.
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The founding of Apple and the death of Charlie Chaplin's happened in the same year
The great comedian Charlie Chaplin died in 1977. Then was founded for the manufacturing of Apple computers.
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The laws of motion and gravity, published by Isaac Newton later than was founded Harvard University
The year of Foundation of one of the most prestigious universities in the world — 1636-y. English scientist Isaac Newton published his fundamental work Principia Mathematica in which he described the laws of motion and law of universal gravitation, in 1687, almost half a century later, the founding of Harvard.
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Nintendo appeared during the construction of the Eiffel tower, when the public was agitated by the history of London's serial killer of Jack the Ripper
Nintendo was founded in Japan on September 23 1889, and she began with the issuance of cards for the game "game of hanafuda". Meanwhile, Paris completed construction of the Eiffel tower, which will become the symbol of France. The people of London was in a panic, frightened by reports about one of the most famous killers in history — Jack the Ripper.
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The last mammoths disappeared at about the time when the oldest on Earth, the tree was 1000 years
Bristlecone pines are considered the oldest trees in the world. In the White mountains in California discovered a tree of this variety, which reaches the age of 4000 years, and recently opened another, which as much as 5,000 years. Scientists believe that the extinction of mammoths occurred about 4,000 years ago.
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Bikes came later locomotives
It seems to be: what could be simpler than a Bicycle? The feeling that they are all from time immemorial. However, the prototype of this vehicle was only patented in 1818, while the first locomotive was presented in 1797. The difference is 21.
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In 1913, in the same city — in Vienna — lived Hitler, Stalin, Freud and Trotsky
The photo — map of Vienna about those years. Surprisingly, all these people really could meet on the veranda of a cafe in the Austrian capital. Moreover, Trotsky and Hitler regularly went to Cafe Central, but quite near it was a favorite restaurant of Sigmund Freud — Cafe Landtmann. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin lived only an hour's walk from each other, so no wonder they could meet.
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The years of the life of Cleopatra time closer to the time of landing American astronauts on the moon than to the start of construction of the Egyptian pyramids
Archaeologists date the construction of the largest pyramids of Ancient Egypt, the pyramid of Cheops, the year 2540 BC. Queen Cleopatra lived in the years 69-30 BC. Flight to the moon occurred in 1969.
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The first flight of the Wright brothers and flight to the moon is just 66 years
The development of science every year and every invention is constantly accelerating. But between fundamental scientific developments in the twentieth century, a fairly small gap. The first controlled flight in an airplane made in 1903, and in 1969, mankind made his first step on the moon's surface.
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Soft drinks brand Coca-Cola is only 31 years younger than the state Italy
The Kingdom of Italy was formed in 1861, and the first Coca-Cola was able to try in 1892.
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