The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading
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In 1834, Parliament burned down, and the Standards of Measurement were melted or destroyed.
posted by Mordhaus 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 108 views • 5:05In Wichita Falls, Texas, the Newby-McMahon Building stands 480 inches tall. Not 480 feet: 480 inches. There's a story of a smooth-talking scammer that sounds almost too good to be true. But is it?
posted by bobknight33 4 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,019 views • 6:47Interesting breakdown by Rick Beato of The Hand That Feeds by Nine Inch Nails .
posted by w1ndex 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 170 views • 10:45YouTube description: Shemika Campbell hails from a long line of limbo. Both her mother and her grandmother were limbo dancers, carrying on the traditionally Trinidadian form of dance. Shemika is keeping... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 12 months ago • 1,045 views • 2:443 weeks later, it's a stunning masterpiece. London-based stonecarver Anna Rubincam creates a portrait from start to finish -- all shot within a span of three weeks.
posted by BSR 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 87 views • 8:36Beginning Sept 1, 2017, knife laws in Texas are changing. We teamed up with Bryan Wilson, the Texas Law Hawk, to explain how these new laws affect you. You’ll now be able to carry knives longer than... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 484 views • 58 secsYouTube description: Bill reveals the stunning engineering underlying the design of a diaper. He describes the five layers of a diaper, including the superabsorbent polymer in the diaper's core. He... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 337 views • 6:34I made this bow and arrow using only primitive tools and materials.The bow is 1.25 m (55 inches) long and shoots 60 cm (2 feet) long arrows. I don't know the draw weight - safe to say greater than 15 kg... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 8 years 1 month ago • 621 views • 5:54"Ants don’t eat leaves. They use them to grow white tufts of nutritious fungus to feed their offspring. Their success as farmers has made leafcutter ants into fungus tycoons, complete with their own... continue reading
posted by ant 8 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 345 views • 3:31The World's smallest true monkey, the Pygmy Marmoset, averages in at 3.5 ounces and 5 inches in height (sans tail). I do not have stats at this time for the pasta.
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