Category: BP Geographic History
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Notre Dame
Notre Dame in its current condition two months after the fire that had happened during renovation works on 15 April 2019 and destroyed the roof and spire. The metal scaffolding was still in place two months later which was difficult to remove as there were fears that it could collapse…
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Huayna Picchu
Huayna Picchu as it was probably called by the Inca, better known to the world as Machu Picchu. It was built around 1450 and the plaza in the centre suggests that it was a temporary settlement used for gatherings or special events. In use for one hundred years it was…
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Deep In The Ocean
In case of the crash of Air France Flight 447 in June 2009 the FDR (Flight Data Recorder) and CVR (Cockpit Voice Recorder) could be found and recovered in 2011 after they were lying four kilometres deep in the Atlantic for two years, and they could still be read! Hopefully…
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The Nazca Lines
The Nazca Lines are geoglyphs in the soil of the Nazca Desert in Peru. They were created between 500 BCE and 500 CE by people walking in certain patterns on the desert floor, removing pebbles and leaving differently coloured dirt exposed. Claims about them being of any other origin are…
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US Embassy Bombing
This is what was left of the US embassy in Nairobi after a bombing on 7 August 1998 which occurred simultaneously to a similar one in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It was part of the rising terrorism around the world which the United States created by their quest to rule…
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Wealth of Nations and Steam Engine
There were some people who contributed to the Enlightenment about as much as Sir Isaac Newton, and they were born in Scotland. One of them was Adam Smith. He was born in the town Kirkcaldy at the eastern coast. When he was fourteen years old he entered the University of…
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Knowledge Enlightens
Curiosity. A typical human attribute. People were always curious, they wanted to find out basically about everything around them. The problem was, or still is, that there were or are things for which we don’t have an explanation yet or at least cannot visualise. In the past that was leading…
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The Beginnings of Empirical Science
The Enlightenment. One could say it all began with one man: Sir Isaac Newton. He was born in Lincolnshire, England, on Christmas morning of 1642. When he was three his mother married a man from a nearby village. He hated his stepfather. But later he enrolled at Trinity College in…
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The Flood
“The melting of the ice sheets had caused global water levels to rise steadily […]. In approximately 5600 BCE the waters of the Mediterranean burst through the land bridge joining Turkey to Bulgaria, creating the Bosporus and flooding and expanding the small freshwater lake to create the saltwater Black Sea.…
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Asia’s Colonial World City
Karl May wrote about having been to Hong Kong around 1900… “It rained. The mountains which enclosed the bay were wrapped by clouds. What we’ve seen was so specifically European […] Hong Kong is an English creation”… It was a time a few years before the Peninsula was built, before…
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Civilised
“The uncivilised has behaved in the highest grade civilised while the civilised thanked in the highest grade uncivilised. As he would be lost if we wouldn’t help him there will also be a time when our whole civilisation will cry for help out of problems it caused by itself.” Karl…
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Four Brands Merged
The modern Audi brand goes back to 1909 when August Horch left the company named after him which he had founded five years earlier and started a new company, this time with the Latin translation of his name. In 1932 the brands Audi, Horch, Wanderer, and DKW merged to Auto…
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