Harsh Justice

taken from the book of facts - Reader's Digest

Frederick the Grate of Prussia was so badly treated at home that he tried to run away to France at the age of 18. But his father, Friedrich Wilhelm I, caught him and threw him into prison.
During his imprisonment in 1730, a friend named Lieutenant Katte, who had helped him in his attempt to escape, was executed in front of him.
Frederick fainted at the sight.
Frederick was kept under arrest for 15 months before being grudgingly set free.
As King, though, he far outshone his harsh father.
He stayed on the throne for 46 years from 1740 - nearly twice as long as his father - made his army the finest in Europe and doubled his country's territory.

The First Fire

Humans and their ancestors, the hominids have known how to use fire for at least 500,000 years, and humans have probably been capable of making fire since about 12,000 years ago.
The earliest fire was undoubtedly started naturally by lightning, so that the old and widespread religious custom of a sacred flame which was never allowed to go out is likely to be a folk-memory of the days when fire had to be kept alight, because people could not make it for themselves.
Peking man, who lived about 500,000 years ago, seems to have been the first species to make regular use of fire.
Charred embers were found with the remains of Peking Man in a cave near the Chinese capital in 1929.

Our Relative, the starfish

Humans and other mammals are vertebrates, animals with backbones. And all vertebrates belong to the scientific family called the chordata, animals with a rod-like structure that supports the body.
the chordates and the echinoderms - creatures such as starfish and sea urchins - diverged into separate evolutionary paths at least 500 million years ago.
But scientist believe that both groups descended from a common ancestor - making the starfish one of the oldest living relatives of humans.

with this Ring

two modern Christian wedding traditions derive from Roman customs, Brides wore wedding rings on the third finger of their left hand because the Roman believed that a nerve led directly from that finger to the heart. And brides were carried over the threshold of their new home to avoid the risk of stumbling in the doorway or entering left foot first - either was thought to bring bad luck from the gods.

the first Sueez Canal

taken from the book of facts by Reader's Digest



In order to boost trade between Egypt and the Persian gulf, Darius 1 ordered the construction of a canal linking the Nile and the red sea.
in fact, this predecessor of the Suez canal had been started in around 600 BC by the Egyptian pharaoh Necho, but it was abandoned when only half completed.
 Darius's workers began completing the canal in about 500 BC and finished the job a few years later, setting up five inscribed stelae - stone slabs - of which four survived.
Darius's canal - which ran along a course similar to the modern Suez Canal, from the Nile Delta through the Britter lake to near the port of Suez - remained in more or less regular use until the 8th century AD.
 Then part of it was blocked for military reasons - anticipating the similar closures of the Suez Canal in 1956 and by 12 centuries.

Blogging and my Writtings

this post is to tell people that i got a second blog - this one is through WordPress - and the WordPress blog will be the blog i will use to make entries about my writings ( the stories i'm writings )

Pandora

Pandora

According to Greek myth, Pandora was the first women.
She was sent to the rebellious Titans on earth by Zeus as a punishment for man kind for obtaining fire from Prometheus.
she was given a box to take with her, with instruction not to open it.
because she was curious she disobeyed, Open the box and all the evils of the world flew out.
Only hope was left.
Pandora's box has since became a term symbolizing any action whose consequences are dangerously unpredictable.