Other than pearls, merchant ships in Dubai used to trade fish, silk and porcelain to Middle Eastern and European markets. During the late 16th century, the British, Portuguese, Dutch and French wanted to take control of trade routes but Dubai turned the situation in its favour and started tra...
The wrecks lie around the small town of Sisal which was once a flourishing port in the 19th century. The ships are laden with artefacts including cannons, porcelain and cutlery which throws light on the culture of the time. The lighthouse is around 3.7 km from the coastal town. Built in ...
1998, a small repository was placed inside the Hall of Records. Housed in a teak box, which in turn sits in a titanium vault covered by a granite capstone, the repository consists of 16 porcelain enamel panels that share the story of the carving of Mount Rushmore, about Borglum, and an ...
Chinese Food Facts. 29 surprising things about Chinese food, a cuisine that is familiar yet greatly misunderstood. Here we separate reality from myth, truth from misconception. General Chinese Food, the World’s Most Popular Food-related Chinese Inventions Why Christian Missionaries were known asEater...
China is known for manufacturing ceramic plates and it was a mystery known to the Chinese only, till a long time. It was after a long time when Johann Friedrich Bottger of Saxony made porcelain that the world came to know about ceramics. ...
16.Check out our tsunami(海啸)facts and learn some interesting information related to these great walls of water that can cause so much destruction.Find out what causes tsunamis and read about some notable recent examples of tsunamis that have occurred around the globe. ...
During the Middle Ages, the Muslim world had two enormous business advantages: 1) they had a huge range of contacts, so they could trade everything form African gold to Chinese porcelain to European amber and furs, and 2) Muslim craft workers were highly skilled, which meant their goods alw...
There are about 5,000 species of crabs. Only about 4,500 are true crabs. The other 500 types are false crabs and include hermit crabs, king crabs, porcelain crabs, horseshoe crabs, and crab lice.[2] Crabs are also known as “spiders of the sea” because, like crabs, spiders have leg...
Manufactured products include building materials, cement, iron and steel, aluminium, harvesters, tractors and other farm machinery, railway rolling stock, lorries, machine tools and many other engineering products. There is a large food-processing industry and Chinese silk, glass, porcelain and textiles...