Chinese stone masters of the scrumptious trinkets

  

Boundary Lines Between Countries

Boundary Lines Between Countries

Posted by OSMEB on Thursday, October 17, 2013 in World

An interesting collection of country borders photos, from which you will learn how to look borders of neighboring countries, The boundary between some countries - it is only a symbolic line separating pedestrian sidewalk cafes, house and among others - is a high fence with barbed wire. 

Germany / Czech Republic

Germany and Czech Republic Country Border

Ukraine / Poland

Ukraine and Poland Country Border Line

China / Russia

China and Russia Country Border

 South Korea / North Korea

South Korea and North Korea

Sweden / Norway

Sweden and Norway Country Border Rive Bridge Road

 Canada / United States

Canada and United States Country Border Road

 Italy / Switzerland (at an altitude of 3,470 meters above sea level)

Italy and Switzerland Country Border Road Line Mark

 Mexico / USA

Mexico and USA Country Border

 Netherlands / Germany / Belgium Triangle Point

Netherlands, Germany and Belgium Triangle Border Pint

Liechtenstein / Austria

Liechtenstein and Austria Country Border Road Line

 Bangladesh / India

Bangladesh and India Country Border Barbed Wire Line

 Syria / Iraq

Syria and Iraq Country Border Barbed Wire Line

 India / Pakistan

India and Pakistan Country Barbed Wired Border Photo — Link

  

The Netherlands / Belgium

The Netherlands and Belgium Country Border House

 Switzerland / Liechtenstein

Switzerland and Liechtenstein Country Border River Bridge

 China / India

China and India Country Border Photo — Link

 Portugal / Spain

Portugal and Spain Country Border Mark

 Argentina / Paraguay / Brazil River Triangle Point

Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil River Country Border Triangle Point Photo — Link

 Russia / Belarus

Russia and Belarus Country Border Road

 Austria / Slovakia / Hungary Triangle Border Point

Austria, Slovakia and Hungary Country Triangle Border Point

India / Myanmar

India and Myanmar Country Barbed Wire Border Photo — Link

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Fascinating Mummy Discoveries Still Now - Around the Globe !

Fascinating Mummy Discoveries Still Now - Around the Globe !

Plomo Mummy

The Plomo Mummy, or La Momia del Cerro El Plomo in Spanish, is the well preserved remains of an Incan child found on Cerro El Plomo in 1954. It was the first frozen mummy discovery from an Incan high-altitude human sacrifice. The mummy is curated by the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago, Chile, while a replica of the mummy is on public display.

Rosalia Lombardo

Rosalia Lombardo (1918 – 1920) was an Italian child who died of influenza. Rosalia's father, General Lombardo, was sorely grieved about her death, so he approached Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer, to preserve her. Her body was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.

Sacrificed Inca Children

The maiden, the boy, and the girl of lightning were three Inca children entombed on a bleak and frigid mountaintop 500 years ago as a religious sacrifice. Unearthed in 1999 from the 22,000-foot summit of Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano near the Chilean border, their frozen bodies were among the best preserved mummies ever found, with internal organs intact, blood still present in the heart and lungs, and skin and facial features mostly unscathed. No special effort had been made to preserve them. The cold and the dry, thin air did all the work. They froze to death as they slept, and 500 years later they still looked like sleeping children, not mummies.

Strange Mummy Found by a 10 Year Old

A German boy discovered what appeared to be a bandaged Egyptian mummy inside an old wooden chest in his grandmother's attic. Experts were investigating whether the "mummy" was a genuine, ancient Egyptian relic, a replica, or something entirely different. It was inside a sarcophagus complete with a death mask, a canopic jar – used by ancient Egyptians to store removed organs – and other artifacts. The ten-year-old, Alexander, made the mystery discovery while searching around his grandmother's flat in Diepholz, Germany.

700 Year Old Mummy

These incredible pictures show a 700-year-old mummy in excellent condition, which road workers discovered by chance in eastern China. The corpse of the high-ranking woman is believed to be from the Ming Dynasty, the ruling power in China between 1368 and 1644. It was stumbled upon by a construction team that was looking to expand a street.

2000 Year Old European Found in China

An amazing discovery of 2,000 year old mummies in the Tarim basin of Western China occurred in the early 90s. However, more amazing than the discovery itself was the astonishing fact that the mummies were blond-haired and long-nosed. In 1993, college professor Victor Mayer collected DNA from the mummies and his tests verified that the bodies were all of European genetic stock. Ancient Chinese texts from as early as the first millennium BC do mention groups of far-east dwelling Caucasian people referred to as the Bai, Yeuzhi, and Tocharians. None, though, fully reveal how or why these people ended up there.

2400 Year Old Egyptian Mummy with a Brain Removal Tool

In 2012, a brain-removal tool used by ancient Egyptian embalmers was discovered lodged in the skull of a female mummy that dates back around 2,400 years. Removal of the brain was an Egyptian mummification procedure that became popular around 3,500 years ago and remained in use during later periods. Identifying the ancient tools which embalmers used for brain removal is difficult, and researchers note that this is only the second time that such a tool has been reported within a mummy's skull.

Egyptian Mummy

"Dressed" in Roman robes, a 2,000-year-old coffin stares back from a rare Egyptian grave in the Bahariya Oasis, about 225 miles (362 kilometers) southwest of Cairo. On April 12, 2010, Egyptian officials announced that the unopened plaster sarcophagus, believed to contain a mummy, is among the ancient treasures uncovered at a newfound cemetery.

More Incan Children's Mummies

Archaeologists believe that many Incan mummies, including those of children, were human sacrifices to the mountain god Apus. 

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Most Inhuman Ways of Torture !

Most Inhuman Ways of Torture !

The Middle Ages are infamous for having encouraged and implemented the most inhuman ways of torture to punish or make prisoners confess their crime. Have a look at the 10 most shocking torture methods from the Middle Ages.

Implant

Practiced in Romania during the 15th century, this torture method tops the list of the most shocking torture methods of the Middle Ages and when you have a look at its technique, you can realise its position on the list is not unjustified. The victim was made to sit on the top point of a sharp and thick poll. The poll would go through the body of the victim and then the victim was left to slide down the poll because of their weight. The legend has it that Vlad enjoyed inflicting this punishment on others. And he did this to about 20,000 to 30,000 victims.

Judas Cradle

Judas Cradle must also have been one of the most painful punishments of the Middle Ages as it would involve the stretching of the victim’s orifice and flesh was ripped off. The victim’s vagina or anus was placed right on the point of the pyramid-shaped cradle and then was lowered down on it with the help of ropes. To impale the victim successfully, weights were also added to the victim's legs.

Coffin Torture

Coffin Torture was all about torture in a metal cage and pecked at by the prey birds—another case of slow and painful death. The metal cage was roughly made in human body shape and the victim was placed inside it. The case was then hung from gallows or a tree. Generally, those convicted of blasphemy or heresy were punished this way.

The Rack

The Rack was a unique device to punish a victim by dislocating each joint of the victim. It was highly dreaded, and rightly so, and it is believed to be the most excruciatingly painful kind of medieval torture. Consisting of a wooden frame, two ropes fixed to its bottom and two tied to its handle made it a gruesome way of torturing the victims. As the torturer would turn the handle, the ropes pulled the victim's arms, dislocating the bones. Later, in a new version of the Rack appeared which had spikes to penetrate the victim's back, adding more pain and damage.

The Breast Ripper

The claws of the Breast Ripper would rip and mutilate a woman’s breasts. Often the claws were red hot as they were placed on the victim’s exposed breasts. Once the spikes penetrated the breasts, they were pulled to shred the breasts. Mostly the victim would die and even if a victim survived, she would be scarred forever.

The Pear of Anguish

Mostly the victims of this brutal instrument were homosexuals, blasphemous, liars and women who exercised abortions. The torture tool was pear-shaped and it was inserted into the victim’s orifices—anus of homosexuals, mouth of blasphemers and liars and vagina of women.

The Breaking Wheel

The Breaking Wheel can simply shock you at first sight because of its terrible design. It was designed to hurt the victim’s limbs in extremely painful way. Also named as The Catherine Wheel, it was a torture method to make the victim die slowly but surely. The victim was tied to the specially designed spokes of the large wooden wheel and then the wheel was slowly revolved. The torturer would smash the limbs of the victim with a heavy iron hammer. This would result in breaking of the victim’s limbs into many pieces.

Saw Torture

A medieval torture method which was executed as the victim’s body was sawed into two halves by first hanging the victime upside down. Mostly, the unfortunate victims of this easily available device were accused of blasphemy, adultery, witchery and also theft.

The Head Crusher

The Head Crusher would compress the victim’s skull, squeeze out eyes and shatter teeth. The torture device was more in practice in Spain for Inquisition.

The Knee Splitter

The Inquisition in Spain saw the use of another torture device because it was versatile and would inflict pain—The Knee Splitter. It had sharp spikes fitted on its both sides of grip. When the handle of the Knee Splitter was turned, the claws would slowly squeeze against each other resulting in the mutilation of the victim’s bones and skin.

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