In most countries, burials take place a few days after the death of a person, but in some regions of Africa, the process of preparing a body for burial can take from several months to … several years. For example, in Ghana, the bodies of the deceased are usually kept in the morgue for a long time
Petersburg is one of the small towns in the US state of Virginia. Among its attractions there is one unusual house, built in 1934. At the same time, its walls have preserved the memory of the civil war in the United States, which took place more than a century and a half ago. And all because instead of bricks in the construction of the building they used … tombstones
The whole world has been following the operation to rescue 12 children from a flooded Thai cave for 10 days. Having become hostages of a natural cataclysm, the guys held out all this time with practically no food supplies in the pitch darkness. On July 2, Ukrainian diver Vsevolod Korobov left a message on his Facebook page: “Found !!! Found`em !!! ", and after that he gave an interview in which he shared details about how the searches were carried out, and how it is planned to take the children to the surface
Children's dreams must come true, and miracles have no statute of limitations. Confirmation of these simple truths can serve as a story that recently happened to 90-year-old Amsterdam resident Arnold Neuhaus. As a child, he won a competition from the KLM airline, but circumstances turned out to be such that he could not receive the promised prize. 83 years later, the award found a hero
If I had a chance to name the most unusual thing that is currently produced in America, not everyone would have remembered grand pianos from Steinway & Sons. Musical instruments are made by hand and using a unique technology. The music studio is equipped with machines with steam engines and produces about 100 grand pianos a year
That girls are by no means the weaker sex, no one doubts for a long time. A striking example of this is the American Kinessa Johnson, who resembles a terminator, but only in a female guise. A veteran of the Afghan war, she also found something to her liking in a peaceful life - with weapons in her hands, she protects the nature of Africa from poachers
Relatively recently, information appeared on social networks about how a little girl found the mythical sword of King Arthur Excalibur in the lake. There was no limit to the happiness of the child, because dad told her a legend according to which the blade was thrown into this particular reservoir
In addition to the fact that his own wedding is an event that marks the transition to a new status, for the resident of Montreal, Hugo Cornellier, this celebration was also the end of his long-term project, which lasted as much as eight and a half years
The invention of the printing press was an epoch-making event for the development of book printing. Before that, the folios were handwritten, and their price was simply fantastic, because monks pored over each book for hours, and the process of rewriting sometimes took years. To protect manuscripts from fraudsters and thieves, in the first libraries it was customary to attach books to shelves with chains
Fans of TV series, who literally know by heart the lines of their favorite characters from almost every episode, probably navigate their apartments as if they were their own. Of course, we are talking about fake apartments, which are built in pavilions exclusively for filming. Curiously, what would these houses and apartments look like if they really existed? Spanish artist Inaki Aliste Lizarralde tried not only to present it, but also to depict it on paper in
The Cossack Sich is a traditional form of self-organization of Ukrainian society. Surprisingly, even in the 21st century, Ukrainians in a matter of days were able to create a fortified fortress with a paramilitary position inside, moreover, in the very center of the capital of this state - in Kiev. We are, of course, talking about the Euromaidan camp, inhabited by thousands of people from all over the country
In the Middle Ages, people seriously believed that the Earth was flat. And to look at its edge, they walked across Europe to Cape Finisterre on the northwest coast of Spain. Pilgrims go there and still
Ireland is a dream island for people who love antiquity. In terms of the number of archaeological sites, this country will outperform any other in the world, even close in spirit and history to neighboring Scotland. And megaliths on this island are as common as, for example, supermarkets or gas stations
Where is the Holy Grail kept, in search of which medieval knights broke more than one hundred spears and drove more than one thousand horses? Is it true that there is Longinus' spear in Armenia, for the sake of which Hitler arranged the Anschluss of Austria? Can you touch the head of John the Baptist and Jesus' burial shroud? Read these and other secrets of Christian history in a study from Kulturologia.Ru
The centuries-old British rule over Ireland led to the fact that now almost all the inhabitants of the island speak English. But there are still special areas, the Galtakht, which the population prefers to use their native language in everyday life - Irish
While during the Cold War, the entire Western world empathized with the inhabitants of Berlin, divided into two parts by a wall, in a similar situation completely unnoticed by the world community there were Poles from the city of Cieszyn, whose small homeland was divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia
Almost every person on the planet knows about the existence of Stonehenge - a grandiose ancient structure in England. But this is far from the only such object on the planet. And many thousand-year-old stone circles are well preserved in Ukraine on both banks of the Dnieper River
Everyone in our country knows about Pripyat - a city abandoned by people after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. But only a few are aware that such a dead settlement exists not only in the forests in the north of Ukraine, but also on the island of Cyprus. We are talking about the Varosha region - once a fashionable Mediterranean resort, which in a matter of days turned into a ghost
The Siachen Glacier in East Karakorum is truly enormous, its length is 78 km. It is famous not only for being one of the five largest glaciers in the area, but also for being the second largest glacier in the world, located in non-polar regions. In addition, it is one of the most dangerous areas in the East Karakorum, as there are fierce fighting between India and Pakistan. The confrontation has been going on since 1984, which is why Siachen is often referred to as the highest battleground
Nuclear energy policy has long frightened environmentalists around the world. Greenpeace activists (Greanpeace) held an action in Zurich against the construction of another nuclear power plant, this time in the form of a flash mob, in which almost half of the population of the Swiss city took part
Gypsies live all over the world and live in isolation - no nation accepts them. They have either separate villages or separate quarters. Maybe that's why they managed to preserve their identity. It is also believed that Roma are not eager to work. All the more surprising is the news from Transcarpathia that the gypsies of the camp have built a road
You can only walk along the paths of this garden without straying from the route. It's better not to even think about sniffing a flower or picking a berry. Some plants are so dangerous here that they are in special iron cages or behind barbed wire. Despite this, the poisonous garden located near Alnwick Castle in the UK attracts many more visitors than the usual park beauty
On April 15, 2019, in the capital of France, there was a fire in Notre Dame Cathedral. He destroyed the spire of the building and its roof. What is one of the main monuments of Gothic architecture known for, what does Napoleon have to do with it, and why - in our review
There is a famous anecdote about a girl from Russia who, having married a Muslim, taught the whole harem to cook borscht and paint eggs on Easter. However, in most Turkic and Persian-speaking countries, the Russian beauty herself could learn this art, because the Muslim tradition of painting eggs dates back to Zoroastrianism and is about 5,000 years old. Interestingly, the rest of the customs we perform on Easter are very similar to the Muslim celebration of the spring holiday Navruz
The sands of the Sahara have consumed animals, people and entire cities for centuries. This is the largest desert in the world, and those who had the imprudence to get lost on its endless sandy plains disappeared forever. It is known that in the ancient world, entire armies tried to cross this desert, after which no one else ever saw them. Only now, with the help of modern technologies, people begin to comprehend the secrets of the Sahara, which have accumulated surprisingly many
An unusual Orthodox church - a military one - will soon appear in the Patriot Park, located in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. The project was presented at the collegium of the Ministry of Defense under the official name "The main temple of the Armed Forces of Russia". In fact, it will be a whole memorial complex in which it will be possible not only to pray, but also to honor the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland. The temple should turn out to be truly popular, because it will be erected with donations from Russians
The Buddhist temple Wat Samphran in Thailand is very extravagant even for this country, because it is an 80-meter tower of bright pink color, entwined with a scaly dragon. Despite the fact that this building is located only fifty kilometers from Bangkok, this attraction is not very popular with tourists. But in vain. After all, it is incredibly beautiful here, besides, you can even climb up to the very belly of the dragon building
While falling asleep in the workplace is discouraged in most countries, or may even lead to job loss, in Japan, this behavior is not prohibited. It is not uncommon to see sleeping employees falling face down on their keyboard or a stack of work documents, and this will cause others not to sympathize and not outrage, but to some extent admiration: this person, apparently, worked so recklessly that he brought himself to complete exhaustion
If someone thinks that the most dangerous sport is everyday rolling down a hill in an embrace with a 100-ton log, or flying over cliffs in winged jackets, or skiing down a mountain on stones, then he has not seen anything yet. I have not seen how stern men with faces twisted with horror and pain stand, holding live angry ferrets in their own pants
Everyone has long known about the benefits of winter swimming, but this useful knowledge makes few people at least dip the tip of their little finger into an ice hole. But Santa Claus is not like that. What is some kind of ice hole for him? Therefore, many, many thousands of people around the world, who plunged into the ice hole for the 2011 New Year, dressed in the costumes of Santa Claus: so as not to freeze
It was even difficult to choose a title for this article: too many interesting things came together in the botanical garden of New York on the pre-holiday days. Here you will find a miniature model of the railway, and hand-made wonderful copies of the most iconic structures in the world, and the most amazing thing is that all this is made from plants of the same botanical garden
The previous year passed in the world under the sign of a coup d'état. Many prosperous countries have already drowned in the waves of post-crisis popular indignations - unfortunately, here, in the post-Soviet space, the boat is also shaken to the point. But that's what it is! Here in the Spanish city of Ibi, a coup d'état is a good annual tradition
Snow houses, it turns out, are being built not only by the Eskimos in the far North, but also by the inhabitants of rich and warm Germany. True, the Germans are building not for themselves, but for God, and not forever, but only for the winter. Perhaps the most winter church in the world this year appeared in Bavaria - and it is made of amazingly white and cold building material
If you find yourself in Twinsburg, Ohio in August, you may not believe your eyes at first. Almost all oncoming passers-by will be … at least two copies. But this is not a hallucination: it really is one of the largest twin forums in the world
A good way to save money on road construction has been discovered, ideal for Russia. It turns out that a hollow in a tree can become a tunnel for road transport! But for this, the tree must be really big. Like a colossal sequoia that fell right on the road in Sequoia National Park. A rare squirrel will reach the middle of the tree trunk
Would you like to visit a chocolate country? Right now, this task has become extremely simple: the other day a large theme park dedicated to chocolate was opened in Shanghai. A Chinese dragon, a Chinese wall, mahjong dice, and even a terracotta army of 500 warriors - everything in this chocolate country is made of sweets
If you are annoyed by emo bangs and the people who wear them (by the way, are they still somewhere else?), Then thank fate for not living in Mexico. After all, what Mexican children and teenagers have recently begun to wear on their heads is emo bangs, multiplied by two, or even squared! Meet the "Cholombians" hairstyle movement
We have already talked about the Buddhist monastery, which collected 10,000 Buddhas. But in the Chinese monastery Yarhen there are not so many Buddhas. But there are 10,000 monks! This is the largest monastery in the world - the size of an entire city
The American National Park Zion (or, as the Americans say, Zion), stretching around the great canyon of the same name, is one of the most convenient … for laying the metro. After all, it already has a ready-made underground tunnel of almost perfect shape. And, perhaps, if an underground metro was really arranged in it, then it would be the most beautiful in the world - after all, it was built by nature
If you see the lights in the whiskey barrels, then the Scottish New Year is somewhere very close! In the village of Allendale, the best New Year's fire is the one in which a fragrant oak barrel with resin burns. Another interesting New Year tradition with ancient roots