Potala – a pearl of Tibet
Once Potash was the palace, fortress and the place of religious worship. Its towers sparkling gold rise from the Tibetan fog, like strongholds of the […]
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Galapagos rift
In some ocean hollows, the deepest and inhospitable, communities of living beings evolved in such a way that can exist, without depending on energy of […]
Paradise monastery – Shangri-La
At the beginning of the 20th century the imagination of readers was captured by the mysterious country Shangri-La – the world of harmony and perfection […]
The most ancient city of Greece – Mycenae
At hill top on the peninsula of Peloponnese settlement ruins lie. It is Mycenae – the most ancient city of Greece, Agamemnon’s citadel. Mycenae – […]
Exorcized from death
Long since the national rumor claims that there are people possessing improbable it is possible even to tell improbable survivability, capable to get safe out […]
Chartres Cathedral riddles
Notre Dame de Paris, is perfectly known to all thanks to a novel of the same name of Victor Hugo. But history of other Notre […]
Death of the Khmer empire
The American and British paleoclimatologists found out that the Khmer empire – the feudal state in the territory of modern Cambodia – was sharply weakened […]
Sixth sense: riddles of human reason
Telepathy is an ability of a brain to transfer thoughts at distance without application of any supportive applications. For the first time this term was […]
Augsburg Settlement, 1555 – Cuius regio, eius religio
The conflict far accepted not at once the finished outlines. Luther sought not for split, and for reform of church. Even the Roman throne quite […]
Sack of Rome by troops of the emperor Charles V
Reformation as it is paradoxical, temporarily strengthened the papacy position in relation to many secular sovereigns. Their attempts to nominate the antipope stopped, opposing him […]