Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
And Babylon, many times demolished
Who raised it up so many times? In what houses
of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live?
Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished
Did the masons go? Great Rome
Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom
Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song
Only palaces for its inhabitans? Even in fabled Atlantis
The night the ocean engulfed it
The drowning still bawled for their slaves.
The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls.
Did he not have even a cook with him?
Philip of Spain wept when his armada
Went down. Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the Second won the Seven Year’s War. Who
Else won it?
Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a great man?
Who paid the bill?
I looked at the skill discussion, services, sales ads, and price check subforums to see if skill training consultants are still a thing, but apparently they are no more.
Of the many “Only in the USA” things, megachurches and millionaire preachers (or, better, preacher milionaires) stand out as something truly impossible anywhere else. Here in Barcelona we have a Mormon church and it’s like the only purpose-built non catholic religious building in the city. Evangelists, Jehova’s Witness and other christian denominations gather in repurposed offices, shops, warehouses and the such, same as Muslim do with mosques, but, a purpose-built building? Only the Mormons have that kind of money… and the project was funded with money from abroad.
Spending millions in lavish megachurches while literally millions are in dire need of help and assistance is just a special kind of hypocrisy… self-appointed “christians” who wouldn’t know what Christianism is about not even if it slapped their face.
Anyway, I’m out to sleep. Nighties lovelies!
Also: Boeing’s Starliner starcraft is looking as promising as the latest Boeing commercial jets…
Apparently several oxidizer valves failed after they leaked oxidizer, the oxidizer reacted with moisture (of origin unknown) and formed nitric acid which messed up the valves. Thus Starliner joins B 737 MAX, KC-46 and B 787 as troubled Boeing products.
This is the end of the weekend and my time to try and sleep has come. But before, a video about Dubai… nighties lovelies!
Also: Dubai is a joke (and thrives on modern day slavery)
The Burj Khalifa doesn’t haves a connection to sewage system, and thus every morning tanker trucks queue to empty the septic tanks of the colossus. You really can’t make up this poop…
I wish I could say anything about Dubai, negative or positive. I haven’t lived there since the mid 90’s. Back then it was all desert, the Deira clock tower was outside the city, World Trade Center was the only (really) tall building around.
The site allows to check elements with a brief of their story and a interactable 3D representaiton of the atom in the Bohrs model (which isn’t too real, but it’s easy to understand and compare).