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. China invented toilet paper in the 14th century howe...
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...
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...
After tying a wish written on white paper to the wire, you can spot porcelain kittens in the garden, and pick up round plaques and charms featuring the cute couple. Cats are so big in Japan that they even have their own islands. Many travelers have heard of “Cat Island” Aoshima, ...
6. The city ceased to be the seat of political power in 1912 after Puyi, the last Emperor of China, abdicated and allowed the formation of new Republic of China. 7. The Forbidden City is an array of ancient building and artifacts that include; porcelain and jade, gardens, plazas, histor...
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 answer ...
I agreed to have a porcelain filling – apparently they don’t do metal anymore – and after settling in the chair the dentist scanned my mouth with a camera about the size of an electric toothbrush, instantly producing 3-D images on. After drilling out the loose filling I returned the ne...
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...
Drakvil said: “The major reason Metero was written off as a fraud was that one of the meanings he assigned to a symbol was “porcelain”, and that material did not exist on the island – how could the islanders have a word for a substance they had never been exposed to (at the ti...
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.Tsunamis are huge waves of...