The Temple of Artemis

The Temple of Artemis of Ephesus in Turkey, on the Aegean, is Turkey’s most famous ancient architectural monuments, rated as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Temple around 652 BC, the beginning of construction, when the wooden structure. The second building, the use of stone buildings. The third was rebuilt in 570 BC, a total it took 10 years.

At that time Ephesus was a large wealthy state, hired the famous architect of ancient Greece, resulting in the ancient Asia’s first Ionic columns temple. 550 BC, the Lydian king Kelesuosi built again, and off for the next 100 years to complete. Third and fourth the size of the construction of the temple laid, from famous.

The Temple of Artemis is a rectangular white marble building, a long 125 meters wide and 60 meters high 25 meters, covers an area of more than 6300 square meters. The corridors of the temple there are 137 columns, all with marble and each cylinder is about 20 meters high, the bottom diameter of 1.59 meters, pillar of strange things, the whole building looks as if a forest of pillars, giving a solemn , quiet and harmonious feeling. Marble columns of the lower part of the pillar are embossed figures of various shapes, sleek, form lifelike, life-like.

Capitals plate by a plate with three seat frame edge surface composition of the surface of disk blocks are decorated with a row of decorative lace-like teeth, in the box above the edge is inscribed with four chariots of relief, meticulous delicate, exquisite anomaly . The temple was destroyed in 356 BC. After Alexander Wang’s help, according to the original architectural style rebuild, and more magnificent. In the long years, A Temple of Artemis have been repeatedly looted and become devastated. However, people from the remnants of the building now remains of the foundation and pillars can still imagine it is the majesty of the year.

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The temple of Zeus

The temple of Zeus is the religious center of Greek, and civilians from the city sent many different types of offerings. Centuries, has been in the open air altar Koubai Zeus. An altar dedicated to Zeus, is said to be using a variety of offerings made of the ashes. The Temple of Zeus was built in 470 BC, the fifth century BC by a local architect Libon of Elis supervisor to build a magnificent temple, as the Temple of Zeus, and was completed in 456 BC, the temple Miaohou The statue is used Paros island marble, and the sculptor Phidias is responsible for Statue of Zeus.

Chevron eaves decorated temple on the west side of the many statues, full style in Athens. Was necessary in order to the Temple of Athens-style statue, or because of Phidias’s reputation far and wide, building temples are particularly requested him to Olympia to work as a sculpture, and now go undiscovered.

One argument is that Phidias in the Parthenon sculptures of Athena Colossus when he was accused of misappropriation of valuable material, subjected to Bianchu left exile hometown of Athens, had life, they die Olympia. This is the only credible argument is that it is the name of Phidias and the then politicians Pericles is a friend of his reputation to take any enforcement actions would have a negative impact on Pericles, so the Philippines Diaz began to flee.

In the Olympia excavations carried out by the modern, the earliest one in 1829 presided over by the French expedition. Lasted six weeks. So that modern people have more understanding of the Olympia, it is the German expedition. They started in 1875, almost never stopped to explore, although the Temple of Zeus were identified, as well as decorative statues, and partially restored the original shape of the Temple of Zeus, but has found no traces of its own Statue of Zeus. However, from 1954 to 1958, the archaeologists discovered a series of exciting work in a place not far from the Temple of Zeus, the work of local ruins dug Phidias, shape, size and the Temple of the same as the main room.

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

When people speak of the Babylonian civilization, the first imagination and foremost is “hanging gardens.” It is known as one of the Eight Wonders of the world.

Hanging Gardens of Babylon, of course, have never been hung in the air, the origin of the name is simply because people have to replace the original addition to “hanging”,  and it is the result of  error transtlation of “outstanding” in the Greek meaning “kremastos” and the Latin “pensilis”.

Unfortunately, the Hanging Gardens and the Babylonian civilization, like the other famous buildings are already being lost in the billowing yellow sand. We must understand that Hanging Gardens, only by later generations of historical records and modern archaeological excavations.

But some records, although the reference to Hanging Gardens, but that the legendary Hanging Gardens is not built by Nebuchadnezzar II, but a Syrian king to please one of his favored concubines and deliberately construction of the. Some records even think that the legendary Hanging Gardens actually refers to the Assyrian king Cincinnati hrib capital Nineveh in its construction of the royal garden.

Hanging Gardens of Babylon of the most amazing places that the water supply system, because Babylon little rain, while the hanging gardens of sites that are far from the Euphrates River, so the researchers think that there should be a lot of Hanging Gardens of water as shown in Figure device, the slave constantly push the gear handle even the tight, the groundwater delivered to the highest level of the storage tank, and then return to the ground by the man-made river. Another challenge is to maintain, since the general building, to the erosion of the river and not long withstand the collapse is impossible, due to the Mesopotamian plain not too many stones, so The researchers believe that the bricks used in hanging gardens with a difference, they were joined by the reed, asphalt and tiles, stones have been added and more literature refers to a layer of lead, in order to prevent infiltration of ground water.

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Iceberg appears in Australia

According to the British Daily Mail reported that Australia’s reputation for hot weather, well known for very few people seem to be linked with the iceberg. However, the Australian Antarctic Division scientist has suddenly found a huge iceberg is approaching to the Australian Macquarie Island. Scientists believe that the Antarctic ice northward drift so far is very rare. According to scientists at the scene, this tip is about 50 meters high, about 500 meters.

Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist Neil - Young, that the iceberg could be from 2000 to 2002 from the Antarctic Ross Ice Shelf collapsed down in one of several large icebergs. In the past year, several icebergs that drift with ocean currents, slowly northward. However, for the discovery of the iceberg, it can drift into the Macauley Island, the northern part of warm waters so far is extremely rare. Scientists believe that with the continuing northward movement, this tip could crack and quickly melting. However, it is fully melted prior to passing ships will pose a huge threat. In 2000, due to climate warming, from the Antarctic ice shelves and Ronnie Ross Ice Shelf collapse of many of the giant iceberg. The first tip is about 300 kilometers and a width of 37 km. These icebergs from the Antarctic are now slowly disappearing.

Scientists believe that this should be a rare phenomenon found in global warming, the most convincing proof. It is because of global warming, Antarctica’s ice shelf would collapse forming a drift of the iceberg. But others have disagreed. Opponents argue that it is precisely because the global climate cooling, away from the Antarctic waters may occur only iceberg.

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Rainbow appears at night in England

According to the British “Daily Mail” reported that at 19:00 on the 8th or so, the United Kingdom outside the city of Richmond, North Yorkshire, the sky appears in a rare night rainbow. British photographer Chris - Walker timely and camera to capture this magical and beautiful picture.

In the photo, a colorful arc of light outside the band and the Richmond City-efficient mutual silhouetted against the night, like a long rainbow colored arch bridge connecting the two ends of the earth, beautiful and spectacular sight. This is a rare round of the night sky from the moon and the rainbow is caused by water vapor “Moon Rainbow.”

Under normal circumstances, the Rainbow is a sun and in the air caused by water droplets. When the sun shines on the raindrops in the air, the light will be refracted and reflected, so in the sky to form the colorful spectrum of arch. At 19:00 on the 8th, the sun has long been downhill. However, the night sky, the moon can also form a rainbow. Moon radiation into the air in droplets, light is refracted and reflected, so he formed the so-called “Moon Rainbow.” Rainbow Rainbow with Japan on the formation of principles of exactly the same.

Rainbow usually appears on the other side of the moon, the sky, but mostly at the full moon when the moon is also visible. Due to the necessary conditions for the formation of large rainbow, the rainbow on rainbow is relatively rare compared to Japan. First of all, the location of the moon in the sky less than 42-degree angle; Secondly, the night sky background should be very dark; third condition is that the other side of the moon appears to have rain. The rainbow also appears easily near the waterfall.

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Tomorrow’s Solar Eclipse

These days, TV and newspaper are all news about the coming solar eclipse which will take place on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, this time we can see a total eclipse of the Sun. It will be the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting at greatest eclipse 6 minutes, 39 seconds, it has sparked tourist interest in eastern China and India.The eclipse is part of series 136 in the Saros cycle, like the record setting Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991. The exceptional duration is a result of the moon being near perigee, with the diameter of the moon 8% larger than the sun (magnitude 1.080). This is second in the series of three eclipses in a month. There was a lunar eclipse on July 7 and now a solar eclipse on July 22 and then a lunar eclipse on August 6.

It will be visible from a narrow corridor through nothern Maldives, northern India, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, the northern tip of Myanmar, central China and the Pacific Ocean, including the Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati.

Scientists said the most perfect observation point is in China, my friends has been preparing it for a long time, choosing sites, booking hotel rooms and procuring equipments, we wish we can have a good self-experience of the scientific wonder.

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