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16.02.202505:54
Population growth by continent in 2024.
In 2024 the world witnessed an increase of population equal to a staggering 70,2 Million people, Africa leads global population growth in 2024 with an impressive increase of 35 million people, as the continent is experiencing economic development and a rapid demographic expansion. Europe experiences a population decline of 1.2 million Caused by various factors including low birth rates and aging population.
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In 2024 the world witnessed an increase of population equal to a staggering 70,2 Million people, Africa leads global population growth in 2024 with an impressive increase of 35 million people, as the continent is experiencing economic development and a rapid demographic expansion. Europe experiences a population decline of 1.2 million Caused by various factors including low birth rates and aging population.
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10.02.202517:19
The highest-resolution image of atoms ever taken thus far.
🤔Did you know: the word "atom" comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ- ("not") and τέμνω (témnō, "to cut"), combining to form ἄτομος (átomos), meaning indivisible, or uncut.
Image: Cornell University
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🤔Did you know: the word "atom" comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ- ("not") and τέμνω (témnō, "to cut"), combining to form ἄτομος (átomos), meaning indivisible, or uncut.
Image: Cornell University
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09.02.202510:00
😇Reconstruction of Iron Age elder 'Hilda the Druid' who died in Neolithic Scotland 1,500 years ago.
The toothless old woman, known as ‘Hilda', is believed to have lived on the west coast Scottish island of Stornoway and it is thought that she was in excess of 60-years-old when she died. The skull belonging to "Hilda" was first found on the Isle of Lewis in 1833, and is one of six "Druids of the Hebrides" skulls presented at the time.
🦉Druids were a mysterious class of Britain's ancient Celtic culture. The term druid was a common word in the ancient Celtic language, usually referring to someone who was an expert in magic or religion. It could have been used for someone who communicated with goddesses and gods, or someone who claimed to be able to predict the future.
It is quite possible that Hilda was a contemporary of the Roman invasion of Britain. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the woman was how long she lived, considering the average female died around 30-years-old, while Hilda was at least 60 years of age.
😀The reconstruction was made by Karen Fleming of the University of Dundee.
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The toothless old woman, known as ‘Hilda', is believed to have lived on the west coast Scottish island of Stornoway and it is thought that she was in excess of 60-years-old when she died. The skull belonging to "Hilda" was first found on the Isle of Lewis in 1833, and is one of six "Druids of the Hebrides" skulls presented at the time.
🦉Druids were a mysterious class of Britain's ancient Celtic culture. The term druid was a common word in the ancient Celtic language, usually referring to someone who was an expert in magic or religion. It could have been used for someone who communicated with goddesses and gods, or someone who claimed to be able to predict the future.
It is quite possible that Hilda was a contemporary of the Roman invasion of Britain. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the woman was how long she lived, considering the average female died around 30-years-old, while Hilda was at least 60 years of age.
😀The reconstruction was made by Karen Fleming of the University of Dundee.
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26.12.202419:55
Reconstruction of a female Eastern Hunter-Gatherer based on a skull from Popovo, Russia.
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01.11.202411:05
🤩Artistic reconstruction of a Celtic sacrifice.
The Celts believed that the presence of spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to predict the future. That is why huge sacred fires were lit. People gathered around them, burning crops and animals to make offerings to the deities.🤩
🤩There is some evidence that the Celts practised human sacrifice.
— Diodorus Siculus (Greek historian, 60 BCE)
Image: André Hout
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The Celts believed that the presence of spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to predict the future. That is why huge sacred fires were lit. People gathered around them, burning crops and animals to make offerings to the deities.🤩
🤩There is some evidence that the Celts practised human sacrifice.
These men predict the future by observing the flight and calls of birds and by the sacrifice of holy animals: all orders of society are in their power... and in very important matters they prepare a human victim, plunging a dagger into his chest; by observing the way his limbs convulse as he falls and the gushing of his blood, they are able to read the future.
— Diodorus Siculus (Greek historian, 60 BCE)
Image: André Hout
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31.10.202417:37
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10.02.202518:21
Ku Klux Klan parade, Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 1926.
🧛♀Did you know: this American terrorist and political movement gets its name from the Greek word kyklos (κύκλος, meaning circle).
Photo: Library of Congress
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🧛♀Did you know: this American terrorist and political movement gets its name from the Greek word kyklos (κύκλος, meaning circle).
Photo: Library of Congress
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09.02.202511:40
Lesbian couple in semi drag wedding attire. Kingdom of Hungary, Budapest, 1920.🤩
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07.02.202519:43
Dora Ratjen, a German Olympic athlete, who was arrested at a train station on suspicion of being a man in a dress, 1938.🤸♂️
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10.12.202411:36
A milkman delivers goods to Streatham Grammar School in London, England, 1939 📚
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01.11.202409:08
🤩Caligula's ring made from a solid sapphire.
Experts believe that this ring is at least two thousand years old. The female profile, engraved on the stone with amazing skill for ancient times, belongs to Caligula's last wife, the beautiful Caesonia.👩
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Experts believe that this ring is at least two thousand years old. The female profile, engraved on the stone with amazing skill for ancient times, belongs to Caligula's last wife, the beautiful Caesonia.👩
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31.10.202413:27
Punk girl. Berlin, Germany, 1982.🐭
Image: Peter Hebler
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10.02.202518:02
How the words 'wheel', 'cycle' and 'chakra' are related.
🤩The English words "wheel" and "cycle" are related, as is the word "chakra" (a centre of spiritual energy within the body, in Hinduism). When two words have a shared etymology within a language, we call them "doublets".
Credits: Ryan Starkey
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🤩The English words "wheel" and "cycle" are related, as is the word "chakra" (a centre of spiritual energy within the body, in Hinduism). When two words have a shared etymology within a language, we call them "doublets".
Credits: Ryan Starkey
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09.02.202511:35
🤩Until 1956, French children attending school were served wine during their lunch breaks.
Children were given the right to drink 125ml of wine a day. Their parents thought that these were beneficial for the development of children.🤩
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Children were given the right to drink 125ml of wine a day. Their parents thought that these were beneficial for the development of children.🤩
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08.01.202505:04
The Spirit of the Forest - the 65ft tall beech tree, found in the heart of the Balkan Mountains, in Bulgaria.🇧🇬
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21.11.202418:15
📚Ancient Library of Tibet, Sakya Monastery, China.
Library found in Tibet containing 84,000 secret manuscripts (books), including history of mankind for over 1000 years. Perhaps the largest library in the world in the distant history of the planet. It was discovered behind a huge wall. It is 60m long and 10m high.
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Library found in Tibet containing 84,000 secret manuscripts (books), including history of mankind for over 1000 years. Perhaps the largest library in the world in the distant history of the planet. It was discovered behind a huge wall. It is 60m long and 10m high.
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01.11.202407:49
💛Powałki bread, a traditional Polish dish for All Saints' Day.
The first two days of November in the Catholic Church are dedicated to the memory of the dead: November 1, All Saints' Day, and November 2, All Souls' Day, follow one another.🕯But despite the Roman traditions, the holiday has deep pagan roots.
To honor the memory of ancestors, a day or two before November 1, women baked special small loaves of bread called powałki. This was done so as not to light a fire in the oven on the day of remembrance itself. It was believed that the souls of ancestors returning to their homes on this day would gather in the oven.🤩
🤩The oven was generally considered a favorite place for spirits to live. If someone lit a fire on November 1, it was considered a bad omen, threatening the household with a fire.
🔥 According to tradition, as many powałki were baked as there were deceased people remembered in the family. These powałki were given to beggars with a request to pray for the souls of deceased relatives. Powałki were also presented to a priest so that he would pray for souls that no one remembered.🍁
Powałki were prepared from boiled potatoes with the addition of flour, eggs, yeast and spices.🍳🍚
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The first two days of November in the Catholic Church are dedicated to the memory of the dead: November 1, All Saints' Day, and November 2, All Souls' Day, follow one another.🕯But despite the Roman traditions, the holiday has deep pagan roots.
To honor the memory of ancestors, a day or two before November 1, women baked special small loaves of bread called powałki. This was done so as not to light a fire in the oven on the day of remembrance itself. It was believed that the souls of ancestors returning to their homes on this day would gather in the oven.🤩
🤩The oven was generally considered a favorite place for spirits to live. If someone lit a fire on November 1, it was considered a bad omen, threatening the household with a fire.
🔥 According to tradition, as many powałki were baked as there were deceased people remembered in the family. These powałki were given to beggars with a request to pray for the souls of deceased relatives. Powałki were also presented to a priest so that he would pray for souls that no one remembered.🍁
Powałki were prepared from boiled potatoes with the addition of flour, eggs, yeast and spices.🍳🍚
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31.10.202413:04
🇷🇴Bran Castle in Romania aka Dracula's Castle in Transylvania, Romania.
Thanks to Bram Stoker's book, the castle is considered the seat of the vampire Dracula, although the probable prototype of this character, Vlad the Impaler, never lived there. Vlad's real seat was Poenari Castle, which is now only a ruin. 🤩
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Thanks to Bram Stoker's book, the castle is considered the seat of the vampire Dracula, although the probable prototype of this character, Vlad the Impaler, never lived there. Vlad's real seat was Poenari Castle, which is now only a ruin. 🤩
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10.02.202517:34
Among the Greek ruins. WW II.
🏛Photo: Imperial War Museum in London
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09.02.202510:08
🤩Etymology map for the word "God" in European languages.
Despite the common features of the Proto-Indo-European religion, inherited by the later traditions of the speakers of Indo-European languages, the concept of 'god' has different origins among them.
🤩Germanic: god, Gott, gud. 1) The original may be the Proto-Indo-European root *gheu meaning "to call". That is, god is the one who is called. 2) The original root is *ghu, which meant "to pour, to pour, to make a libation". In this case, god is the one to whom the sacrifice is made.
🤩Romance: dieu, deus, dios. Here we are talking about the root *dyew with the semantics of "light, sky, radiance" and the word *deywós formed from it, which already means "god". I.e., god is the one who lives in the sky and gives light.
🤩Greek: θεός [theós]. Here the root *dʰéh₁s is restored with the semantics of "god" or "sanctuary", derived from *dʰeh ("to do" or "to arrange"). Here god is the doer.
🤩Slavic: бог, bóg, bůh. Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bogъ. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- ("to divide" ). Cognates include Sanskrit भग (bhaga, "happiness, welfare, prosperity"). Probably, the Slavic understanding of god comes from the idea of some great distributor of goods.
🤩Iranian: Xweda, xoday, кудай. The word comes from Proto-Indo-Iranian *hwatā́wā, which meant "lord". This word consists of the parts *hwa and *tawa. The first part, *hwa, corresponds to Proto-Indo-European *swa and means "oneself, oneself", and the second, *tawa, has the semantics of strength and power. I.e., god means lord.
🤩Hungarian: Isten. According to linguist Károly Rédei, it may also be of Iranian-Aryan origin. In Old Hungarian, the Middle Iranian form *ištan (> ištÁn) acquired the meaning "greatness, dignity, majesty".
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Despite the common features of the Proto-Indo-European religion, inherited by the later traditions of the speakers of Indo-European languages, the concept of 'god' has different origins among them.
🤩Germanic: god, Gott, gud. 1) The original may be the Proto-Indo-European root *gheu meaning "to call". That is, god is the one who is called. 2) The original root is *ghu, which meant "to pour, to pour, to make a libation". In this case, god is the one to whom the sacrifice is made.
🤩Romance: dieu, deus, dios. Here we are talking about the root *dyew with the semantics of "light, sky, radiance" and the word *deywós formed from it, which already means "god". I.e., god is the one who lives in the sky and gives light.
🤩Greek: θεός [theós]. Here the root *dʰéh₁s is restored with the semantics of "god" or "sanctuary", derived from *dʰeh ("to do" or "to arrange"). Here god is the doer.
🤩Slavic: бог, bóg, bůh. Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bogъ. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- ("to divide" ). Cognates include Sanskrit भग (bhaga, "happiness, welfare, prosperity"). Probably, the Slavic understanding of god comes from the idea of some great distributor of goods.
🤩Iranian: Xweda, xoday, кудай. The word comes from Proto-Indo-Iranian *hwatā́wā, which meant "lord". This word consists of the parts *hwa and *tawa. The first part, *hwa, corresponds to Proto-Indo-European *swa and means "oneself, oneself", and the second, *tawa, has the semantics of strength and power. I.e., god means lord.
🤩Hungarian: Isten. According to linguist Károly Rédei, it may also be of Iranian-Aryan origin. In Old Hungarian, the Middle Iranian form *ištan (> ištÁn) acquired the meaning "greatness, dignity, majesty".
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27.12.202415:06
The Wolves by Emmett Merrill.
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81-year-old Joe Biden chews on babies' feet.
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81-year-old Joe Biden chews on babies' feet.
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31.10.202418:20
💙Former King of Yugoslavia Peter II and his son in futuristic spacesuits. England, 1950.
Ready for space travel!🤩
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Ready for space travel!🤩
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31.10.202411:02
🎃Vampire (Love and Pain) by Edvard Munch.
The Slavic vampyre (upiór , upir , umarłiec , wieszczy , wupi , wuki – from the Proto-Slavic *ǫpirь , Old Church Slavonic ǫpyrь/ѫпырь) came to English culture under the name "vampire", popularized by Bram Stoker's novel Dracula from 1897, as well as earlier novels The Giaour by George Byron from 1813, The Vampyre by John William Polidori from 1819 and Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu from 1872.📚
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The Slavic vampyre (upiór , upir , umarłiec , wieszczy , wupi , wuki – from the Proto-Slavic *ǫpirь , Old Church Slavonic ǫpyrь/ѫпырь) came to English culture under the name "vampire", popularized by Bram Stoker's novel Dracula from 1897, as well as earlier novels The Giaour by George Byron from 1813, The Vampyre by John William Polidori from 1819 and Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu from 1872.📚
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