The Actual Sizes of Some Things: 20 Examples With a Comparison!
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Cleaning the statue of David, Michelangelo. It always seemed that this statue is not much taller than a man, but it turns out that the statue’s head alone is almost human size! The length of the statue is 5.2 m.
We all love summer. This is a wonderful and vibrant season. But there are some nuances that parents of young children should pay attention to. Here are some tips for mothers in the summer ...
Giving women names for cars is a romantic tendency of many automakers. Such names sound melodic and cannot be pronounced without much trepidation. In this collection, we look at a dozen of the most popular cars that bore (or still carry) female names ...
In the United States, Prohibition began to operate in 1920 and continued right up to 1933. For 13 years, people have tried in every possible way to circumvent the ban on the sale, production and transportation of alcohol, staged demonstrations, protests, and massively engaged in smuggling. In our time, it is still difficult to imagine the effect of this law in full force. However, what the consequences may be and how people lived during the prohibitions on alcohol can be seen in the next photo selection.
More recently, the World Wildlife Fund has published statistics stating that wildlife has declined by 52% since 1970. Your attention is invited to a selection of animals that have experienced the influence of man on nature.
The life of a great musician is shrouded in many secrets and conjectures. Even after death, the rumors around his person do not cease to fade. The most unusual facts from the life of the king of pop read here.
Dolphins are quite intelligent animals of the underwater world that children and adults all over the planet love. Legends about the kindness of dolphins reach fantastic examples, but is everything so smooth in the idealized behavior of these animals?
The world's first correctional prison in Philadelphia, with the full name of Eastern State Penitentiary, first received a prisoner in 1829. For more than 100 years of work, a lot of villains and criminals were there, one of which was the well-known mafia boss Al Capone. How was this place different from other prisons and what does it look like now? More on this later ...
Just as we are used to not noticing pigeons, cats, and dogs scurrying around everywhere, people in other countries relate to other, more exotic, animals. This collection is about those places where you can easily meet on the streets a crowd of monkeys or a herd of deer and this will be the norm ...
There are some women who are not afraid to go beyond the generally accepted framework and do as their hearts tell them, even if it alerts the society and raises a lot of perplexing questions. Ekaterina Mironova, a trucker from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia is just such a woman. She told about her work, a 20-ton truck and the dangers on the road in one of the interviews ...
Night clubs are places with a special energy that you should plunge into at least once in your life. We present a list of the most chic dance clubs from around the world, which everyone would surely like to visit.