Category: World
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Siberia: On Frozen Rails
World’s Toughest Train Rides are in Siberia. Russia. North and cold. Frozen rails. No service. No comfort. But it keeps their people together. History. Prisons. Exile. This is Russia … https://youtu.be/tUPE7oW4wKo?si=EPKlRXJzU7uwmhKh
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Yeonmi Park
Girl who escaped from North Korea when she was 13. Hero. Interview with Joe Rogan. https://youtu.be/ZGJm4bjRaaE?si=pj0wuNAiAI8zaJIp
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Rosenka and Lesek Semelka
Too many memories with this song and many of its versions. This one with Lesek Semelak is a true beauty. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/I9mSKneRm8E?si=FagxK32flVE501TD
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Longest Non Stop Flights
I was reading about some flights, flying, no plans to travel just looking at some numbers. To see the longest non-stop flights in the world I visited this page: https://aviationa2z.com/index.php/2024/08/03/top-15-non-stop-longest-flight-in-the-world/ Here is the list : Rank Airport Pair Route Distance (Miles) Duration Carrier 1 JFK-SIN New York – Singapore 9,537 18h 40m Singapore Airlines 2…
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Orient Express – Paris to Instanbul
Gorgeous train ride across Europe to Turkey in luxury train. https://youtu.be/gSxqZC6mApw?si=GlRP0lJ85uiSnrA3
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Fahrenheit or Celsius?
Celsius makes sense. Tradition, simplicity, nicer numbers. Water freezes at 0 C, water boils at 100 C. Decent warm day is with temperature from 20 C up. Fahrenheit? Water freezes at 32 F, water boils at 212 F, decent warm day is from 68 F up. Even if it all sounds decent, nobody really knows…
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Kansai Airport (KIX) Sinking
How long can it last? Third busiest airport in Japan may not exist for much longer. It is sinking. https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/japans-20b-kansai-airport-in-osaka-sinking-at-an-alarming-rate-experts
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One of the Worst Things USA Has Done
How did we bomb other countries and kill their people. And why we never talk about it too much. We know it was beyond bad … https://youtu.be/dDLBkuV2EfY?si=XFNzuY4u0RI16hs2
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Population in Japan
I found some interesting program about population in Japan. Very tragic show. They went back to world war 2, then mentioned that population went up after the war, they reached 100 million in 1966 and kept growing … but only until 2008. They explained it that they reached some maximum for their population and society,…
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Zdroj – The Music of My Childhood
Written by Roman Dragoun and his dad. The man behind the keys, modest musical genius. https://youtu.be/4Lt4Ep_ReTs?si=iJ7wq-5oV8EyQeUs
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I Think, Therefore I Am
The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as “I think, therefore I am”, is the “first principle” of René Descartes’s philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc je suis in his 1637 Discourse on the Method. It later appeared in Latin in his Principles of Philosophy, and a similar…
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Who Was Adolf Hitler?
How Did Adolf Hitler Die? At midnight on the night of April 28-29, Hitler married Eva Braun in the Berlin bunker. After dictating his political testament, Hitler shot himself in his suite on April 30. Eva took poison. Their bodies were burned according to Hitler’s instructions. Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in 1942 No witness…