This day in history is the tallest building in the world.

On January 4, 2010, the opening ceremony of the Burj Khalifa, the world's only 163-storey skyscraper, took place. The height of 828 meters helped the building become the tallest in the world. The surface area of Burj Khalifa is approximately 17 football fields.

Hello, friends.

I'm sorry for the long absence. I decided to take a short vacation. I hope you will understand me. Work, family, and no free time at all. I'll start publishing again in a couple of days. And today, by the way, in the country where I live (I wrote about it earlier) they celebrate Christmas.

The holidays are over, let's get back to work😁

This day in history is the release of iTunes.

On January 9, 2001, Apple changed the planet. The iTunes music service saw the light, which, along with the iPod, put the music industry on the rails it is moving on now.

Reconstruction of methods of repelling an attack with a long sword from illustrations of fencing manuals in 14th century Italy

Photographed a Boy with a Mickey Mouse sculpture, Pripyat, 1986. Shortly before....

The Titanic of the 21st century.

On January 13, 2012, one of the largest European motor ships, the Costa Concordia, hit the reefs and fell on its side.

The main blame was laid on the captain - it was revealed that he had disabled both the autopilot and the alarm system. Anyway, he was in the control room with strangers at the time of the disaster. And then, to make sure he got a prison sentence, he also left the ship while the passengers were on it. In general, I fully deserved my 16 years.

32 people out of 4,252 died. Basically, huge casualties were avoided thanks to the heroism of the rescue teams. The ship is listed as the largest damaged passenger ship in history.

‘Petty thieves support Marcus Cerrinius Vatia for the post of aedile!’

‘Elect Vatia as aedile, all drunkards support him!’

Pre-election graffiti in Roman Pompeii - politicians painted satirical appeals denigrating opponents. 2000 years have passed, nothing has changed in this regard🤷‍♂

In 1918, a team of coal miners made an incredible discovery - they found a petrified tree right in the mine at a great depth.

Coal, like oil, is a product of organic decomposition over a million years. Once upon a time, in the Carboniferous period, the existing forests and bushes turned into coal, which we extract now.

By some miracle, one of the trees has managed to survive since that time and confirmed this theory.

Developers: We have spent thousands of hours researching the issue to achieve the historical accuracy of our game.

Meanwhile, the game:

The Al-Nasr Rock in Saudi Arabia is one of the most mysterious mysteries.

The stone is divided into two parts by a perfectly even gap, as if it were made by a laser. However, the gap appeared at least 4 thousand years ago. At the same time, when the rock was decorated with drawings of animals.

Of course, these are most likely the tricks of erosion. But who knows.😏

Color shots of atomic bomb tests at the Camp Desert Rock proving ground in Nevada in the 50s of the last century.

Most of the fighters in the video were exposed to high levels of radiation and suffered health problems.

When Theodore Roosevelt was running for president in 1912, he was shot at during one of his meetings with voters.

The bullet hit his chest, piercing his glasses case and a thick manuscript with a speech he wanted to make. However, Roosevelt did not leave the place — he drew the attention of the audience to the fact that he had just been shot at, and then spoke for an hour and a half. Hunting experience helped to understand that the wound was not life—threatening - since he did not cough up blood, it means that the bullet did not pierce the lung. It was later confirmed that the bullet had penetrated 76 millimeters into his chest, but removing it was even riskier than leaving it as it was, and Roosevelt carried it all his life.

Nothing special, just a book on home production of all types of drugs from 1973. Simple instructions for the synthesis of cocaine, mescaline, psilocybin, LSD, DMT, MDA, CTP, THC.

It was a strange time

"I am a doctor and I am not afraid of death. Death is just a moment. I would rather face death with open arms than live in shame, being forcibly covered with a veil. I will not submit to those who expect me to repent for my half-century struggle for equality between men and women. I'm not ready to wear a veil and step back into the past."

Farrukhru Parsa is the first female minister of Iran. She was shot in 1980 for refusing to cover her head with a headscarf.

The child is a miner. Colorado, USA, 1900.

A sticky toy from the beginning of the last century.

When choosing the appearance of your character in the game😁

A woman poses astride an ostrich, France, 1910

The Society for the Protection of Animals smokes on the sidelines