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Three Greco-Roman Cities Covered By The Sands Of Time

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  In order to fulfill his needs in a short time after becoming civilized, man chose a suitable place in the surroundings where he lived and built his residences as well as other important shrines.  In course of time they became cities and then they became big cities.  Some of these great cities, where thousands of people gathered for a long time, are still active today.  However, some cities were destroyed for various reasons.  They are now covered with sand, leaving only its remains.  At that time, some of the biggest cities in the world also joined this. In this article, we bring to you about three Greek and Roman cities that were destroyed in this way.                              Timgard – Algeria The ancient city of Timgard is mentioned in ancient novels and other writings.  It is said that it belonged to the Trajan Empire, which was recorded as a very busy city near the Sa...

The Japanese Aircraft Carrier Submarine That Scared America

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  Most people are familiar with aircraft carriers.  But have aircraft carrier submarines also been produced in the world?  After the end of World War II, the US discovered several such aircraft carrier submarines that Japan had secretly designed to the world.  In fact, they don't know what they are when they see them for the first time.  Because at that time, such a large aircraft carrier submarine had not been created in the world.  The Americans recognize that if this aircraft-carrying submarine called the "Torpedo Dive Bomber" had been used in World War II, the end of the war would have been different.  One question is why the Japanese did not use them in the war. In December 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on America's Pearl Harbor.  Thus, the American nation, which until then was not interested in another war, was annexed to the Second World War.  The day after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, America declared war on Jap...

The Story-Making Montparnasse Train Crash

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  It must be surprising that a train derailment that happened more than a century ago is still being talked about and even made movies based on it. If you've ever been to Paris, France, you must have visited Montparnasse Station.  Even if you haven't been to the station, you've probably heard of it.  This railway station is a special place because about 128 years ago a strange kind of train accident or derailment happened at that place. The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on 22 October 1895 when the Granville-Paris Express overtook its buffer stop at the Gare Montparnasse terminus.  The train was several minutes late and with the driver trying to make up for lost time, it reached the station at such a high speed that the driver's application of the train's air brakes was ineffective.  After running through the buffer stop, the train went through the station and crashed through the station wall;  The locomotive fell onto the Place de Rennes below a...

The Most Brutal Labor Camps In The Soviet Union - Vorkuta Gulag

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  The Vorkuta Gulag was one of the largest camps in the GULAG system, with huge amount of prisoners at its peak in 1951, including Soviet and foreign prisoners, including prisoners of war, dissidents, political prisoners ("enemies of the state") and common criminals.  As forced labor in coal mining. Without proper food or wages, they performed a lot of work that an ordinary man could not afford, in unbearable environmental conditions, without any protection, and between 1931-62, their death toll was two hundred thousand (200,000).  ) is estimated to be about Some of the political prisoners in these camps, who had been there for over 20 years, were highly educated and had been sent here by the Stalinist government for Nazi ties and other crimes.  Others were sent here because of their anti-Stalin political views.  Those who raised their voices against the injustices of the Soviet government were also sent here, and some of them remained in this place even after t...

Ancient Cities Of Asia That Have Been Ruined By Time

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  We find several such cities in the Asian continent, which has a very long history.  The most important of these is information about three cities                   Mohenjo Daro – Pakistan The Mohenjo Daro civilization located in the Indus Valley is considered to be one of the oldest civilizations in the world.  It was contemporary with the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations and was just as advanced, and the people who lived there were busy engaged in writing, scientific research, craft, trade, religious practice and agriculture.  This peaked as early as 2000 BC. The ruins of the buildings of this civilization found in the Indus Valley prove how technologically advanced they were, and the building arrangements and complex aqueduct systems of Mohenjo Daro, the main city of the Indus Valley Civilization, were made with very high technology.  Another peculiarity here is that there are no ruins of special palaces an...

Maunsell Army Sea Forts

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  Rusty invaders out of H.G. Wells, the Maunsell Army Forts in the Thames Estuary are decaying reminders of the darkest days of World War II. Across Europe, there are monuments to remember the Second World War, and miles off the coast of England, there's one that many don't know about.   The Maunsell Army and Navy Forts on the Thames Estuary once protected the UK from bombs, but today they are dilapidated, abandoned structures that you can only reach by boat Part of the Thames Estuary Defense Network, the anti-aircraft tower-forts were built in 1942, each fort consisting of seven tower buildings surrounding a central command tower.  In operation, catwalks are connected to buildings.  Built on land and then transported to their watery homes, the forts were designed by British civil engineer Guy Maunsell, later known for his innovations in concrete bridge design.  Originally there were three of these forts, but only two remain: Redsands Fort and Shivering Sands Fo...

Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp

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  We all know how the dictator Hitler massacred the Jews and spread terror throughout the world during World War II.  The Belsen torture center can be called as a main evidence showing that destruction.  The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp complex outside the German town of Kelley is a grim reminder of the death toll of 50,000 people.  Even after the camp was liberated by the Allied forces on April 15, 1945, 13,000 former prisoners died of various complications. In 1935, near the village of Belsen in the city of Bergen, the largest military base in Germany at that time was built.  The workers' barracks built on the military base were abandoned after work on the camp was completed and in 1939 they were used as a prison camp for prisoners of war.  In 1943 it became a concentration camp where Jews were held.  Originally named "Civil Concentration Camp", it was later renamed "Detention Camp".                   ...

42,000-Year-Old Baby Horse buried under the permafrost. .

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  Some abandoned places  have mymysteries. Explorers  have presented a unique discovery made in the Batagai crater in Yakutia. Researchers from the Yakutian North-Eastern Federal University said the regular frosts in the Batagai depression kept the cub in excellent condition.  'The bones are roughly two months old; It is 98cm tall at the shoulder.    "Even the preserved hair, which is incredibly rare for such an ancient find, has no damage to the calf's carcass.   'This was called the Lenskaya or Lena horse (Equus lenensis), which was genetically different from those now living in Yakut    "I want to emphasize that this is the calf of a species of horse that populated Yakutia between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago," said Semyon Grigoriev, head of the Yakutia Mammoth Museum.  Experts took samples of hair, fluids, biological fluids and cover soil for a range of tests.   “We study the contents of the calf's gut to understand its diet...