Amusing Planet - Exploring Curiosities

Time 2021-05-14 17:12:55

Web Name: Amusing Planet - Exploring Curiosities

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The Anschlussdenkmal, or Anschluss Monument, in the Austrian town of Oberschützen, is a Nazi monument erected to commemorate the bloodless c...In 1783, French professor Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier created history by becoming the first man to fly in a balloon untethered. Two year...That days have 24 hours is a long-established convention, which is also related to the rotational motion of the Earth. Pliny the Elder expre...In the park of the Abbey of Epau, in Yvré-l Evêque in France, you can admire a curious monument in the shape of an obelisk. Built by the...In 1946, a group of Soviet school children from the Young Pioneer organization presented to the American ambassador to the Soviet Union, Wil...At Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, where now stands a small four-story tower with an attached two-story wing, there once stood one o...Imagine a metal cylinder less than 4 meters long, on four wheels, with the driver mounted on top like one rides a horse. No seat belts, no r...There is a bronze statue of British railway engineer Sir Nigel Gresley towering over passengers as they pass through London King s Cross...The sinking of the French ocean liner SS La Bourgogne on the morning of 4 July 1898 was one of the most disgraceful of disasters in mariti...In the summer of 1953, the Canadian government uprooted seven Inuit families from their homes in Northern Quebec, and dropped them high in t...Get a round-up of all our stories published during the past week delivered to your email every Saturday.

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