How heavy the CLOUD is? ☁ The sky is a very interesting thing to see. I am sure that we have all at least once asked ourselves: " WHY IS SKY BLUE ?" or " HOW CLOUDS ARE FORMED ?". Everything around us has its own story. If not a story, there are many legends and historical knowledge that are passed from son to son. I remember my young self, that knew nothing about the world, thinking what is behind all those beautiful clouds. When I was in high school and started to learn Latin I heard of mythology and was connecting sky with it. But now that I am older I learned new things and know a little bit more about all of that. Do you know what is sky? The sky is just a layer of invisible gases. Nothing more. Nothing less. But how are clouds on the sky there?, Do they just appear or what? WHAT ARE CLOUDS? Clouds are accumulations of water droplets, ice crystals or mixtures of droplets that we can see all around us. They are not only in the sky. We can also see ...
Interesting things about 2 BIGGEST WALLS in the world
I am sure that most of you have at least once heard about the famous GREAT WALL OF CHINA. One of the biggest walls in the whole world. Actually, the biggest wall in the world if I may say. When I first heard about the Great Wall Of China I did not make a big deal of it. I always thought wall is a wall, what is a difference. But once that I actually saw all the pictures and read more about it I become interested and realized that the Great Wall Of China is not just a wall. It is a history, something that will always have its place in the minds of all those people who live there. Actually not just those people who live there but also us who do not live there.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
The Great Wall Of China was built around 500 years ago. An interesting fact is that The Great Wall Of China is not one wall that was built alone. There are actually a series of walls that are combined together and create The Great Wall. They are around 9000km long and together they form the biggest construction in the world.
TOP 5 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT WALL
- There are no corpses inside the wall ("conspiracy theory")
- There are old legends that say that inside wall are buried people that were working on building the great wall. But, really!!!.... Are there or were there really bodies of those people? When this legend appeared between people, scientists and historians decided to see the real truth behind this legend. After detailed studying and looking into these walls they found nothing. Not a single bone that could be proof of this legend. Soo, we could say that this is just a legend.
- 1/3 of the wall disappeared
- Wall is constantly changing its form and over the years it becomes completely different then it was before. And no it is not because of nature. It happened because of the people. Vandalism is a big threat to this wall and because of it 1/3 of the wall is gone.
- It cant be seen from the moon
- Robert Ripley once said that The Great Wall Of China can be seen from the moon. It was a long time ago when the moon was unknown territory. When the first Chinese spacecraft came to the moon, astronaut Yang Liwei said that you cant see The Great Wall of China from the moon.
- Criminals, soldiers, and other people were building the wall
- Soldiers were very important people in building wall. Emperor that was ruling then ordered that 300 000 soldiers have to protect and build the wall. Except soldiers, there were also normal people that were forced to build the wall.
- Criminals were also part of it. During the day they had to protect the wall and during the night they had to build the wall.
- Chinese are not calling The Great Wall "The Great Wall"
- In the history of Chinese culture, every city had its own wall. Because of that, there was no difference between the words "city" and "wall". They are still doing it and years had passed.
- There are old legends that say that inside wall are buried people that were working on building the great wall. But, really!!!.... Are there or were there really bodies of those people? When this legend appeared between people, scientists and historians decided to see the real truth behind this legend. After detailed studying and looking into these walls they found nothing. Not a single bone that could be proof of this legend. Soo, we could say that this is just a legend.
- Wall is constantly changing its form and over the years it becomes completely different then it was before. And no it is not because of nature. It happened because of the people. Vandalism is a big threat to this wall and because of it 1/3 of the wall is gone.
- Robert Ripley once said that The Great Wall Of China can be seen from the moon. It was a long time ago when the moon was unknown territory. When the first Chinese spacecraft came to the moon, astronaut Yang Liwei said that you cant see The Great Wall of China from the moon.
- Soldiers were very important people in building wall. Emperor that was ruling then ordered that 300 000 soldiers have to protect and build the wall. Except soldiers, there were also normal people that were forced to build the wall.
- Criminals were also part of it. During the day they had to protect the wall and during the night they had to build the wall.
- In the history of Chinese culture, every city had its own wall. Because of that, there was no difference between the words "city" and "wall". They are still doing it and years had passed.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE GREAT WALL OF INDIA
As you have seen The Great Wall of China is a big wall and famous all over the world, but it is not the only big wall. There is also one big wall of which not many people have heard of. It is called THE GREAT WALL OF INDIA. It is one of the most impressive constructions in India and its task is to protect old fortress that has more than 300 old temples.
TOP 5 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT WALL
- It was built for more than 100 years
- When it was built its purpose was to separate 2 kingdoms: Mewar and Marwar
- It was never worldly famous
- It was never famous and it still is not that famous. Inside walls, there are many traps and ancient defense mechanisms that are mostly turned off but there are still many possibilities that it can work.
- The widest part of the wall is long 15 meters
- It held secrets of the temple
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