Category: BP Geographic History
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Clovis Not First

There are new findings in Brazil which show that there were humans much earlier than according to the established theory. According to the Clovis First theory people migrated from Asia via the Bering Straight to North America and from there to South America. That was when the ice sheets melted…
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Chinese Wall Construction

Why is the Chinese Wall still there? It seems to be an unusual question but normally brick constructions should only last one hundred years, and the Chinese Wall in its current state was built during the early Ming dynasty in the 15th century. The reason is not the bricks, they…
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Palace Of The Republic

The Palace of the Republic (Palast der Republik) in Berlin was the seat of the parliament of the GDR or DDR, the German Democratic Republic, the communistic country of East Germany which existed from 1949 till 1990. The Palace was constructed in 1976 and was demolished between 2006 and 2008.…
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The Traveller Karl May

Karl May wrote traveling stories in which he was a westman in America called Old Shatterhand as well as a traveller in Northern Africa and the Middle East called Kara Ben Nemsi, although he has never really been to those places at the time he wrote the stories. Some people…
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Simplicity And Progress

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, and in the past life was closer to that than nowadays. People still had style and were aiming for advances in many areas, and while the first is diminishing the latter is reaching levels of complexity which can be too much. In the past people…
