Igor Delovski Board

[Maja]

The Surprising Truth Behind the Construction of the Great Pyramids

"According to the caller, the mysteries had actually been solved by Joseph
Davidovits, Director of the Geopolymer Institute in St. Quentin, France, more
than two decades ago. Davidovits claimed that the stones of the pyramids
were actually made of a very early form of concrete created using a mixture
of limestone, clay, lime, and water. "

[Ike]

Slashdot: How the Pentagon Got Its Shape

"In July 1941 with World War II looming, a small group of army officers
met to consider a secret plan to provide a permanent home for War
Department headquarters containing 4 million square feet of office space
and housing 40,000 people. The building that Brig. Gen. Brehon Burke
Somervell, head of the Army's Construction Division, wanted to build was
too large to fit within the confines of Washington DC and would have to be
located across the Potomac River in Arlington.


The tract selected had a asymmetrical pentagon shape bound on five sides
by roads or other divisions so the building was designed to conform to the
tract of land. Then with objections that the new building would block views
from Arlington National Cemetery, the location was moved almost one-half
mile south. The building would no longer be constructed on the five-sided
Arlington Farm site yet the team continued with plans for a pentagon at
the new location. In the rush to complete the project, there was simply
no time to change the design."

[delovski]

euratlas.com - EUROPE AD 1000

[delovski]

The Death Camp of Communist China

"And yet there is more to why China's communist experiment remains a
hidden fact: it makes a decisive case against government power, one even
more compelling than the cases of Russia or Germany in the 20th century."

[delovski]

Hope on the Battlefield

"Military leaders know a secret: The vast majority of people are overwhelmingly
reluctant to take a human life."

[delovski]

The day before...

"Monday 10 September 2001 - The world can change in a day. Don't miss
your daily edition of in-depth news."

[Ike]

First the Cartoon, then the War: Europe in 1870



"This French satirical cartoon map (’Carte drôlatique d’Europe pour 1870‘)
sought to get some laughs out of those tensions by showing an anthropomor-
phic map of Europe, where each country was represented by a caricature of
its national ‘persona’."

[Ike]

reddit - "The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror...

... [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened". - Josef Stalin

[Ike]

reddit - Harry Patch died today aged 111. The last WW1 trench war-
fare vet. Read his testament

"All I can add is that war was changing. It had never been pretty, but was
seen as noble. Many armies were still mounted. Officers still led their men
from the front. Wars were bringing territory, riches and prestige to Europe-
an nations.

War is never pretty, but also had never been as utterly hellish as what they
called the Great War. It took time for the old notions of chivalry to leave the
heads of the general populace."

[delovski]

nytimes.com - Channel’s Swift Rise Attracts Ads and Envy

"Last year, the History channel had a growth spurt, gaining hundreds of
thousands of viewers while most of its competitors struggled to grow at all.
This year, even more remarkably, the channel did it again."

[Ike]

reddit - 79 Rare Historical Images From The Past

"The Badge on the German Soldier in Stalingrad is a "Infantry Assault
Badge" which was awarded in Bronze and Silver. Silver for Soldiers that
participated in 3 or more close combat infantry assaults. The Bronze ver-
sion had similiar requirments but was designated for motorized Infantry.
It was by many frontline soldiers regarded as more prestigious as an Iron
Cross especially when aquired on the eastern Front.

The 17 year old Marina Ginesta overlooking Barcelona during the early
days of the Spanish Civil War died less than 2 months ago."

[Ike]

http://joederbes.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/les-miserables-34-waterloo/

[delovski]

goodreads - Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"All our principles were right, but our results were wrong. This is a diseased
century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exact-
ness, but whenever we applied the healing knife anew sore appeared. Our
will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people. But they
hate us. Why are we so odious and detested? We brought you truth, and in
our mouth it sounded a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our
hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voices is
heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you
the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked..."

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/bdviny/damage_done_by_the_notre_dame_fire/el224x9/

DataDamage done by the Notre Dame fire

Had this not been a symbol of Paris and France, the walls would be knocked down, and something else woulda been built in its place. But because it is what it is of huge national and international importance to our shared and collective heritage, it must be rebuilt. First order of buisness is to secure the remains, and make sure it wouldn't collaps or take any further damage from the massive undertaking France is about to start.

[Ike]

J - Objavljeni tajni njemacki dokumenti o raspadu Jugoslavije

"Njemacka savezna vlada, zajedno sa svojim partnerima u EZ, uvijek se
zalagala za ocuvanje jedinstva Jugoslavije na demokratskim osnovama i uz
postovanje ljudskih i manjinskih prava... Pitanje priznavanja samostalnosti
Slovenije i Hrvatske trenutno se ne postavlja."