Mystery of the Knights Templars Many phenomena from the past are surrounded by mystery, but none ignites as much imagination as the Knights Templar. The First Military Order, the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, better known as the Knights Templar, was founded in 1118 as a result of the First Crusade. The Order was founded by Hugo de Payens. According to a letter sent by the Bishop of Chartres to the Count of Champagne in 1114, where he wrote…
Salvador Dali, art icon He was born on May 11, 1904, as Eugenio Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali, in Figueres, Catalonia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N91Z8EKpn8 Salvador Dali, a Spanish painter, eccentric and one of the most important surrealists of the 20th century, who pushed the boundaries of art. He is one of the most creative painters of all time. `"Persistence of Memory" (1931) This is probably one of the best examples of surrealism, although at the time Dali painted…
Samurai - Soldiers from birth. Feudal Japan is known as the age of the samurai. Like the knights of feudal Europe, they were an expensively equipped warrior aristocracy. However, they were only one of several different types of warriors in this specific period. A horde of ancient warriors who were not afraid of death, warriors who always put honor before their lives. With a katana in hand, guided by a strict code known as the Bushido ("warrior's path"), the samurai were an…
Geisha tradition, ancient art of Japan. Geishas are mentioned in the Japanese tradition as early as the beginning of the seventh century, but during the 18th century this profession experienced a new expansion. Geishas still exist today, but they have adapted to the modern world in many ways. The word geisha comes from the Japanese nouns of the word ‘gei’ meaning ‘art’ and ‘sha’ meaning ‘person’ or ‘executor’. The closest translation for a geisha would be ‘artist’,…
Harry Houdini - the greatest magician in history... The famous American illusionist Harry Houdini was born on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, under the name Eric Weiss. His parents, Hungarian Jews, emigrated to America on July 3, 1878, when Erik was four years old. The arrival of a circus in the city changed the usual boyhood days in Appleton, Wisconsin. Amazed by the strange world he saw, Harry wanted to be a part of it. At the age of nine, at the table, he introduced himself…
Who are the Anonymous? If we mention the term hacker to someone, one of the first things that comes to mind are Anonymous. They are recognizable by their specific mask. But Anonymous is much more than a mask. The mask of Anonymous today represents one of the most famous symbols of rebellion and resistance against the system, as well as against unjust regimes. But the story of it is actually a story about the injustice that Catholics in Great Britain suffered at the beginning…
What are you most afraid of? Fear is the primary emotion that arises from perceiving or expecting a real or imagined danger, or a serious threat. It is an innate, genetically programmed response to a threatening or painful stimulus. Every day we come across some tests in the media. Believe it or not, most of us do. If nothing else out of curiosity and fun. Here's one. Of course, first choose the image that appeals to you the most. This psycho-test reveals our biggest fears……
8.9.3..Yakuza-Masters of crime with a humane face The Yakuza are members of a criminal organization, a traditional organized crime union, and are known as violent groups. They got their name from the popular game of hanafud cards, ie the worst combination that a player can draw eight (I), nine (ku) and three (sa), which literally means insignificant, so call them in 893. The origin of the yakuza lies in the bandits of the so-called ronin, ie samurai without masters who…
Amedeo Modigliani - a bohemian story with a sad ending Today, his works are worth millions and passionate collectors are fighting for them at rare auctions. All this is a bit ironic because, during his lifetime, Amadeo Modigliani tasted only a part of this glory, only to die in complete misery and poverty. A tuberculous alcoholic, addicted to women, hashish and ether, unrecognized, poor and dead as early as thirty-six, with the last painting dried on an easel: Amedeo…
Born under a lucky star or how to "survive the impossible" **Wednesday, January 26, 1972**. Yugoslav Air Transport (JAT) planes landed at Copenhagen Airport from Stockholm. There was a change of crew in Copenhagen for the next flight, the destination is Zagreb. There was a "mistake", the one to call it administrative, which happens every day in ordinary life, the change of name. Vesna replaced Vesna. Twenty-two-year-old Vesna Vulović, a flight attendant with eight months of…
Cupid - the god of sensual love among the ancient Romans, Cupid is the Roman god of love and the son of the goddess of love Venus. He is depicted as a beautiful figure of a boy armed with a bow and arrow (often with a quiver and spare arrows!). Those arrows are "love wishes", something, really, imaginative and creatively conceived in mythology. Everyone, something, stings a little, even today, us, mortals, because he knows what can happen to him if he is Cupid's target. This…
"Far away" Magnificent animation in the sand of a Russian artist "This story on the sand tells about the life of a great country which, as the greatest shrine, preserves its faith, respects its ancestors and is able to rejoice and sing despite difficulties and troubles," Kseniya wrote in the description of her video. This winner of the TV competition "Ukraine has talent" in 2009 recently visited Serbia and, inspired by our country, decided to pay tribute to Serbia with her…
Zeus... Greek God of the Sky and Thunder Mythology originated in ancient times as a consequence of the human need to explain the causes of various unexplained phenomena such as lightning, thunder, drought, earthquakes, storms, rain, disease… Thus, in various cultures of the world, many deities, mythical personalities, heroes of superhuman strength were created, to whom great powers were attributed. The man prayed, praised and adored them, hoping that in that way he would…
Christmas wheat brings happiness and prosperity The festive Christmas mood and anticipation of the happiest Christian holiday among Orthodox people begins with Saint Nicholas. It is customary to sow the obligatory decoration on the Christmas table on that big day - young wheat, which symbolizes the fertile year. Christmas is celebrated in memory of the birthday of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is a holiday of the birth of a new life, it is imbued with the most…
Saint Nicholas is most often celebrated by the Serbian people. In the tradition of the Serbian people, there are about 80 feasts, more precisely baptismal names, which are celebrated as baptismal feasts. Almost half of the Orthodox Serbs celebrate Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker - St. Nicholas. Saint Nicholas, a miracle worker, protector of the poor and sailors, children and students, is one of the most beloved Christian saints, and not only among Orthodox peoples. The…
Bridge made of grass and built by hand at Q’eswachaka in Peru... In Inca times, there was a large network of roads called the "Royal Road" that connected their empire. However, due to its inaccessibility, a large number of places were connected by suspension bridges, made of plant fibers. "Q´eswachaka" is the only bridge that is being renovated from generation to generation to this day. This bridge is the only remaining example of a hand-woven bridge that has survived for…
Is There A Possibility That Telepathy Is Our Sixth Sense? It has happened to everyone at least once in their life that we think of someone and have a premonition that we will either meet that person or that they will contact us in one way or another, and when they call us, we hear that they were thinking about us. Or the famous feeling that we know when the message arrived from us without even looking at the phone. It can often happen that a certain person comes to our mind…
London’s Deadly Acid Smog Crisis of 1952 The "big smoke" killed 4,000 people in five days, and 150,000 residents had seriously endangered health and had to visit a doctor due to a respiratory tract infection. In the long run, 12,000 people died from the deadly fog, as did thousands of animals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN4GhEqtUJ0&feature=emb_logo In the proverbial foggy London, the situation that you often do not see "a finger in front of your eye", let alone…
Gladiators in ancient Rome Rome, slave, amphitheater, Colosseum, arena, old age, wild animals, fighter, fight, weapons, imperial age, entertainment, custom. Of course, common to all this is the Gladiator. Gladiators were fighters in ancient Rome, and the word itself comes from the Latin "gladius" which meant a short Roman sword. Gladiator fights were introduced in Rome in the 3rd century BC as part of funeral ceremonies: when an aristocrat died, his family organized fights…
The Hungarian who discovered vitamin C "I have been studying mercury for more than sixty years systems and that convinced me, that our body is a lot more perfect than it imposes on us an endless list of diseases ... Problems that arise in the body originate to a much lesser extent than congenital anomalies, and more due to abuse of the organism itself. ” Albert Szent-Györgyi Albert Szent-Györgyi, a Hungarian physiologist and biochemist, is responsible for the discovery of…
"There is no man without sin, and without good works." Patriarch Pavle. Gojko Stojčević, in the monastery of Pavle, the later Serbian patriarch, was born in Kućanci, a village near Donji Miholjac in Slavonia, on September 11, 1914, at the height of the First World War, in which the people to whom he belonged were attacked by the country in which he was born ( Austro-Hungary). He lost his parents early. Already at the age of three, his aunt took care of him and his brother,…
Buddhism - the religion of sense. First and foremost, Buddhism is not exactly a religion in the true sense of the word, nor does it have a God or gods in which it believes. Unlike all other religions that place man at the center on the surface of God and essentially put man, Buddhism openly puts man at the center. Buddhism (Buddha Śãsana - Buddha's teaching) is a philosophy and non-theistic religion that originated in northern India in the 6th century BC. n. e. The founder…
King Decebal: Guardian of the Iron Gate of the Danube Decebal was the last Dacian king to be surrounded by Trajan's troops in his capital, Sarmizegetusi, where he committed suicide in 106. It was also the end of Trajan's great Roman campaign on Dacia, which was prepared for a long time by building a complete infrastructure on the Serbian, right bank of the Danube (road, bridge, fortifications). Decebal or Diurfaneus, whose name translates as "the power of the Dacians", ruled…
How chewing gum is made. Several thousand years ago, people chewed chewing gum in its natural form. Today, chewing gum is unavoidable at all times, most often for the sake of refreshing the breath. The chewing gum variation has been used by ancient civilizations and cultures around the world. It is believed that the earliest evidence of chewing from the mosque dates back to the Neolithic period. People have used it for pleasure, healing properties or to fight hunger, thirst…
Keep going - better, stronger and smarter. Will 2021 be better? Or will it be a sequel to 2020? I do not know. But this year we’ve really learned that there are things we can’t possibly predict or influence. So it would be foolish to plan and make New Year’s resolutions. But… I think 2020 was a good opportunity for one big reset, a return to factory settings. I think we got a really good opportunity to start over and turn the page. The world has stopped and will start again…
Living is good, good living is even better. Life is like a piano ... White keys are for happy moments, and black are for sad ones. But remember all the keys together are needed to make the music complete ... │▌▌▌│▌▌│▌▌▌│▌▌│▌▌▌│▌▌│▌▌▌│▌▌│▌▌▌│▌▌│▌▌▌│▌▌│▌ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVbCrWTpB80&list=RDsd50Qk-oSCU&index=14
Happy Happy Happy **May success knock on your door this year** **May all your joys multiply** **May you find joy and love and light** **In this new year 2021** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfvtqCb08iU
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