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The Reason For Evolution
Why are there men and women? Why are there two different genders? Well, it all began with life forms which could just split themselves up and reproduce on their own. But they could not adapt to a changing environment. So evolution began, two genders began to exist which could produce…
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Reasons For Being A Vegetarian
There are three reasons to be a vegetarian and not a meat eater: 1. Ethical reasons, because animals are killed to get their meat. 2. Environmental reasons, because cattle is producing a lot of methane which is making the greenhouse effect much worse, and four times as many land is…
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Former Kowloon Canton Railway Clock Tower
The site of the former Kowloon Station of the Kowloon Canton Railway. The Clock Tower was finished in 1915, and the whole Kowloon Station in March 1916, not as stated on Wikipedia in 1910, in fact on 1 October 1910 the Kowloon Canton Railway began operating its British section, most…
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Protecting The Emperor
Protecting the emperor for other two thousand years can cause headaches, if you have a head. Some soldiers appear a bit headless… In fact the bodies and heads of the terracotta warriors were created separately and put together. Every face is unique and an exact copy of a real soldier
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Star Of The Fifties
The Mercedes-Benz 190 SL with the internal designation W121 was a more affordable alternative to the exclusive 300 SL. Instead of the purpose-built tubular spaceframe W198 which gave the 300 SL Coupé its famous gullwing doors the 190 SL used a shortened platform of the W121 sedan. It was built…
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Understatement
The VW Phaeton is probably one of the most underrated cars ever produced. While it has a top quality standard due to hand manufacturing and Volkswagen’s quality standards and a very luxurious interior it did not sell as expected
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Sun Umbrellas
It was a hot day in Wuhan. It is a habit of Chinese people to use sun umbrellas as they prefer a light skin tone
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Alternative Warning
Well. There are things like this in China which make speechless, with different alternative reactions, or at least make it difficult to find a suitable Instagram description. It could be explained that this happened due to a translation word by word… could be
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Xiamen University
The campus of Xiamen University. Founded in 1921 by Tan Kah Kee, a Chinese patriotic expatriate businessman in Singapore, the university has been perennially regarded as one of the top academic institutions in Southern China
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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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On The Island Sylt
On the way to and from the Morsum Cliff at the eastern side of the island of Sylt. It is important to stay on the paths to protect the sensible environment. The island of Sylt is famous for its thatched houses. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with…
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