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Ancient Egyptians used slabs of stones as pillows.
whats new in it. every civilisation used to sleep on floor having stones as pillow
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So colony is basically Roman word and Roman were first colonial powers in history? 
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when?
November 21, 1783
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November 21, 1783
Oh I see that was quite early, but I heard that in Muslim Spain experiments were made to fly in air and that is earlier than this experiment in 1783 (atleast 300-500 years earlier)
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Oh I see that was quite early, but I heard that in Muslim Spain experiments were made to fly in air and that is earlier than this experiment in 1783 (atleast 300-500 years earlier)
I will check n let you know
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I remember Zaid Hamid in one of his speech mentioned that :sid:
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^ so there are different types of ballons which one are you talking hot air? or hydrogen or some other???
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I don’t know what kind of balloon that was
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lolz so let me tell you some history about balloons kinds n origin :p
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lolz so let me tell you some history about balloons kinds n origin :p
go ahead
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wait I am watching match right now, after tht
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China discontinued the very successful voyages of Zheng He in 1400s.
If those voyages were allowed to continue then China could have owned the seas of medieval world, and** industrial revolution could have occurred in China instead of Western Europe**.
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China discontinued the very successful voyages of Zheng He in 1400s.
If those voyages were allowed to continue then China could have owned the seas of medieval world, and** industrial revolution could have occurred in China instead of Western Europe**.
Was he a Muslim? Why the voyages were discontinued if that could led to revolution?
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He was not a Han Chinese, but from Central Asia. Thus a Muslim. I read that his grandfather used to put the word Haji in front of his name, meaning that he had performed Haj.
He was a very successful admiral and diplomat. Another thing: He was made eunuch when he was 12, and he was 7 feet tall. Imagine how must have looked to Han Chinese who are probably no more than 5'5" on average.
His voyages were discontinued due to Mongol threat from North. Chinese thought that they could not afford expensive sea adventures in the presence of this threat. They discontinued the voyages, and instead built the Great Wall.
This put an end to Chinese sea power. And provided open territory to Western Portuguese and English fleet when they started their sea travels. There was no one to challenge them anywhere in the world.
The discontinuation also meant that China was cut off from Western and Islamic world. The world was changing and Chinese were left unprepared because they didn't know about it.
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^ Informative :k:
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In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap. Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world.
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Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen
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In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols refused to accept the Oscar for his movie The Informer because the Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios. In 1970 George C. Scott refused the Best Actor Oscar for Patton. In 1972 Marlon Brando refused the Oscar for his role in The Godfather
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Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road
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The first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter, happened in 1999. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon appeared about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it's elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth).