Wednesday, January 19, 2011

10 Big Events The Forgotten History of the World

10 Big Events The Forgotten History of the World

10 Cahokia

America's Forgotten in Rome

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is the area where the original ancient city (600-1400 century AD) near Collinsville, Illinois.

This is the largest archaeological sites associated with the Mississippian culture, developed advanced society in central and eastern North America, started more than five centuries before the arrival of Europeans.

This is a National Historic Landmark and the site devoted IN state protection. Besides, this is one of only twenty World Heritage Sites in the United States. This is the construction of America's largest prehistoric land north of Mexico. It is also home to a wooden structure that appears identical to the function of Stonehenge.

At the high point of its development, Cahokia was the largest city in the north central great Mesoamerican cities in Mexico.

Although it became a house of only 1,000 people before the year 1050, the population grew explosively after that date. Archaeologists estimate the city's population between 8000 and 40,000 at its peak, with more people living in remote farming villages that provide downtown utama.Pada 1250, its population is larger than London, England.

If the highest population estimate is correct, Cahokia larger than the next city in the United States, until about the year 1800, when Philadelphia's population grows beyond 40,000.

9 Ship Sultana
The forgotten disaster

steamboat Sultana was paddlewheeler Mississippi River, was destroyed in an explosion on April 27, 1865. This resulted in the greatest maritime disaster in American history Serikat.Diperkirakan 1800 than 2,400 passengers were killed when one of four ships boiler exploded, and the Sultana sank not far from Memphis, Tennessee.

The reason for these disasters largely forgotten by history is due to occur shortly after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and during the week.

Most of the new passengers were Union soldiers, especially from Ohio who had just released from Confederate prison camp as Cahawba and Andersonville.

The U.S. government has contracted the Sultana to transport former prisoners of war returned to their homes. The cause of the explosion is the boiler is leaking and bad and has not been repaired.

Boiler (or "boiler") explode when the ship drove 7 to 9 miles north of Memphis at 2:00 am in a huge explosion that sent a few passengers on deck into the water and destroy most ships.

Coal heat spread by the explosion immediately change the remaining superstructure into hell, the beam can be seen in Memphis.

8. Ziryab
Slaves who changed society

Ziryab (789-857 AD) was a Persian polymath: a poet, musician, singer, beauticians, fashion designers, celebrities, trendsetters, strategies, astronomers, botanists, geography and former slaves.

Most people never heard of Ziryab, but at least two of his innovations still in use today: he introduced the notion of three dishes (soup, main course, pudding) and he introduced the use of crystal for drinking glasses (before the metal is the main ingredient).

He introduced the asparagus and other vegetables into society, and make significant changes and additions to the world of music. He had many children, who all became musicians, and his legacy spread throughout Europe. He may be regarded as ancient Bach.

List of social change Ziryab made very large - he helped popularize short hair and shaving for men, and wearing different clothes according to season.

He created a sense of fun toothpaste that helps personal hygiene (and longevity) in the area, and also found an underarm deodorant. He also promoted a shower twice a day.

7.Peshtigo
Fire in the Forest

Most people reading this will be familiar with the Great Chicago Fire that killed hundreds and destroyed four square miles of Chicago, Illinois.

However, most people do not know that on the same day the fire that much worse happened, in Peshtigo, Wisconsin.8 October 1871, Fire in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, is a fire that caused the most deaths by fire in U.S. history.

On the same day as the Peshtigo and Chicago fires, the city of Holland and Manistee, Michigan, on Lake Michigan, also burned, and the same fate befall Port Huron at the southern tip of Lake Huron.

At the time it ended, 1875 square miles of forest have been consumed and destroyed twelve communities. Between 1200 and 2,500 people are estimated to have lost their lives.

The fire was so intense it jumped several miles above the waters of Green Bay, and burned part of the peninsula door, and jumped into the Peshtigo River itself to burn on both sides of the city.

Witnesses reported that the storm produced a tornado that threw the rail car and a house into the air.

Many who survived the storm who had fled from the fire to immerse themselves in the Peshtigo River, wells, or other puddle. but Some sink while others give up because of hypothermia in a cold river.

6.Gil Eanes
Passing Point of No Return

Name Gil Eannes almost remind the household appliance; also is that of a place associated with the Portuguese explorers, Cape Bojador. Eannes also not really find this cape: where it has been known for many years.

For a time traveler Eannes's, Bojador represent a barrier unbreachable, the point of no return, and that is the achievement of these heroes are reluctant to pass that invisible boundary, in 1434.

Thus, he opened a new area, not only on land but in the mind, and thus made possible the golden age of Portuguese exploration, with all its glory and horror.

At that time, conventional wisdom states that the sun was hottest at the equator. So, even if a boat could pass through Cape Bojador, equatorial sun will eventually burn it into a powder.

Furthermore, the ship had somehow managed to pass all other dangers, because the crew would most unspeakable monsters met in sub-equatorial region known as the Antipodes.

By having the courage to risk his life (as a result opens a new world,) Eanes is a pioneer in the exploration of the nations of Europe for the future - the future. He will also be blamed because it will be a pioneer the development period - a period of slavery in europe

Warren 5.Joseph
Mr Revolution

Joseph Warren (1741-1775 AD) is considered by many people in his time as the actual architects of the American Revolution.

He was a key figure in one of the most famous in the history of the tea party.

he wrote a set of provisions that serves as a blueprint for America's first autonomous government. He delivered a speech which sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War. He sent Paul Revere out in one of history's most famous rides.

He is a patriot leader, before the Declaration of Independence, for risking his life against England at the Battlefield (Sandler 55). And, indeed, he has lost a lot of history.He is surrounded by the names of very famous from the history of American Independence, but his name itself almost never do we hear today.

Interestingly, his brother juag find Harvard Medical School, and Nagara fourteen sections in the U.S. has the name of Warren County.

4.George de La Tour
Master of The Forgotten

Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593, Vic-sur-Seille, Moselle - January 30, 1652, Luneville) was a painter, who spent most of his life working in the Duchy of Lorraine, (which was absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648,) during its life .

He painted mostly religious scenes lit by candlelight. after centuries of obscurity posthumously, during the 20th century, he became one of the most highly respected by the French Baroque artist of the 17th century.

In his life he was known as a painter for the King (France), and regarded as one of the greatest artists. Very few of his works survive and ketidakjelasannya reasons unknown, but thanks to the efforts Hermann Voss, a German scholar, in 1915 his work was rediscovered.

3. Tigers Training
Tests for D-day

Exercise Tiger, or Operation Tiger, is the code name for a full-scale exercise in 1944 to D-day invasion of Normandy.

During exercise, an Allied convoy was attacked, resulting in the death of 749 American soldiers. Lack of knowledge of this exercise is intentional (unlike most others on this list).

To hide the shame of the official failure of this war game, all involved are sworn not to divulge this secret before the actual invasion.

Ten missing officers involved in the exercise Had Bigot-level clearance for D-Day, meaning That Knew They Could the invasion plans and have compromised the invasion Should They have been captured alive.

Ten officers m, engetahui this invasion is lost, and the actual invasion plans nearly canceled until the body into ten officers found the exercise

With little support or not, from the American or British armed forces, to any efforts to restore permanent memorial dedicated to the event, the civilian population and small area of Devon ken to do the show to commemorate the event, after finding evidence after beachcombing beached on beginning in 1970.

2. First American Subway
Secrets of the New York Subway

In 1904, a modern subway system in New York was officially opened and changed the town forever. But what most people do not know is that it's not the first subway.

Due to the terrible traffic jam on Broadway, Alfred Ely Beach (the young owner of a young American Scientist magazine) is called which has the idea - to build subways, which uses a giant fan to push and suck railcar backward and forward through the tunnel.

Because corruption commissioner of public works, William Tweed, Beach must obtain approval to build a tunnel that by pretending it into a mail delivery system. Tweed (income mostly comes from public transportation) did not veto the request.

Beach and a small group of people began digging a tunnel under Broadway in the dark night. All the companies withheld, as the dirt hidden in the basement of a building purchased for the purpose itu.Pekerjaan Beach went well, but just before they could complete the first row and they got wind of public support.

Beach team worked extra hard to finish the subway, and with their luxurious style of opens to the public subways on March 1, 1870. He picked up twenty-five cents per passenger for trips from Warren Street to Murray Street. This is a huge success - bringing more than 400,000 passengers in its first year in operation.

Unfortunately, Tweed was very angry and future extensions vetoed the subway. Tweed eventually jailed for corruption, and permission given for Beach to continue the work of extending the subway, but unfortunately a private investor quickly disappear, since the beginning of the economic crisis.

The subway was not completed and remained hidden under the city completely sealed-up (complete with the luxury car and machinery) Until it was subsumed into the present City Hall Station.

the subway was not resolved and remains hidden beneath the city is completely covered (complete with luxury cars and engines) until he was put to City Hall Station now. Here are the subway routes on Google Maps.

1.House of Wisdom
Lost in time

House of Wisdom is a library and translation institute in Abbassid-era Baghdad, Iraq.That is the key institution in the translation movement, and is considered to have a major intellectual center of the Golden Age of Islam.

The home is an unparalleled center for studiKemanusiann and the Islamic sciences, including mathematics Islam, Islamic astronomy, Islamic medicine, Islamic alchemy and chemistry, zoology and geography of Islam.

Describe the manuscript Persia, India and Greece, including Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Euclid, Plotinus, Galen, Sushruta, Charaka, Aryabhata and Brahmagupta the clergy-accumulate the largest collection of knowledge in the world, and built through their discovery.

Along with all other libraries in Baghdad, the House of Wisdom was destroyed during the Mongol invasion of Baghdad, in 1258. It is said that the waters of the Tigris River into the black for six months because the ink from a large number of books being thrown into a river.

The number of lost years of knowledge that can not be described. 
This is even more surprising because most people know by the destruction of the library of Alexandria, but little is know about the loss of Sciences Biggest House in Baghdad for that era.



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