I've heard that Damascus is claimed to be the oldest city in the world and the oldest continuously inhabited capital. Are there historical records or evidence supporting this assertion?
Laszlo Toth was famous for trying to destroy the Pieta in 1972.
I'm curious what is actually known about the circumstances of his death. His Wikipedia page suspiciously doesn't provide the usual death information in their biographical bar on the right. The body text does say he "passed his late...
One bit of research genius in here is that dude thought to check the google search history of the term to get a better date for when it was coined. I'll have to remember that one.
This 1675 map of Maaseik, Belgium, shows the hornworks, bastions, and ravelins built beginning in 1672, planned by Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban. Were there specific reasons for the locations of those structures, and if so what were the reasons beyond the simple limit of the terrian.
Languages has developed over the years to make it easy to communicate and exchange complex ideas. For exmple the whole point of the phonetic writing system is to be able to write down complex ideas without have different symbol for each word but alot of time the spelling of a word is not straight...
Laszlo Toth was famous for trying to destroy the Pieta in 1972.
I'm curious what is actually known about the circumstances of his death. His Wikipedia page suspiciously doesn't provide the usual death information in their biographical bar on the right. The body text does say he "passed his late...
This 1675 map of Maaseik, Belgium, shows the hornworks, bastions, and ravelins built beginning in 1672, planned by Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban. Were there specific reasons for the locations of those structures, and if so what were the reasons beyond the simple limit of the terrian.
