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The Great Tour of Khmer Bronze Statue During the declined period of Khmer empire in fifteen century, Thais attacked the Khmer kingdom and brought this bronze statue to their territory. In 1564, King Bayintnaung of Hantharwady won Ayutthaya of   todayThailand and brought this statue along with other   properties as a war trophy to his capital city, Bago. Then,Rakhine Army attacked Hantharwaddy kingdom and destroyed and Burned down former Bayintnaung’s capital, Bago in 1600. They also brought this statue to their capital, Myauk U. In 1785, Prince Thadow Minsaw, son of then Kongbaung King Bodawphaya sacked Myauk U and brought this bronze statue to their capital, Amarapura. So it has been about 235 years since the great journey of this Khmer bronze statue ended here. Now you can see this statue in the compound of Mahamuni pagoda, Mandalay.

What is Democracy The word democracy comes from the Greekwords of demos which means people and Kratos which means power or rule. So democracy basically means the rule of the people. Democracy first started as a direct democracy in Greek cities. Notably ancient Athens where people came together to speak about their concerns and opinions in front of rulers of the city-state and directly voted on new rules and laws.  Here is considered as the birthplace of democracy for the very first time. Decisions were made by the people instead of rulers. But sadly the ancient Greeks did not see all people equally. Slaves, women, children and the people who did not have a land weren't allowed to vote.  This is what we call a  flawed democracy today. After the Greeks lost their power and influence in the first century AD, their early forms of democracy were also fading away. The Magna Carta was signed in 1215 which prevented the King of England to do whatever he...

History of Concrete Nowadays concrete is widely used  material in construction industry. However it has been used since way back  to ancient time. The lineage of concrete  links way back to the Romans and ancient   Egyptians. The history of cementing  material is as old as the history of  construction engineering. Egyptians,  Romans and Indians used some kind of  cementing materials in their ancient  constructions. It is believed that the  early Egyptian mostly used cementing  materials obtained by burning gypsum. Afterwards, ancient Egyptians started  using calcined impure gypsum. the Greeks  and Romans used calcite limestone and  later learned to ants and crushed  stones, lime and water or brick and  broken tiles, This was the first concrete  ever made by Greeks and Romans in the  history of construction. The Greeks and Romans later became aware ...

I am a dreamer In the third millenium BCE,Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on wax tablets. A thousand years later, Ancient Egyptians wrote a dream book listing over a hundred common dreams and their meanings. And in the years since, we haven't paused in our quest to understand why we dream. So, after a great deal of scientific research, technological advancement, and persistence, we still don't have any definite answers, but we have some interesting theories. We dream to fulfill our wishes. In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud proposed that while all of our dreams, including our nightmares,   are a collection of images from our daily conscious lives, they also have symbolic meanings,which relate to the fulfillment of our subconscious wishes. Freud theorized that everything we remember when we wake up from a dream is a symbolic representation of our unconscious primitive thoughts, urges, and desires. Freud believ...

Roman Aqueducts The Roman aqueducts was an ancient marble that begun in 144 BC and finished very soon after it was thought to be constructed under separate leaders such as Emperor Claudius Augustus Nero and Eve Alexander Severus. The aqueduct symbolizes a unique of sophisticated and innovative engineering that Rome had to Offer. The essential work to any city is a constant water supply of fresh water. This unique aqueduct system spattered over miles which created supply of water from distant sources into their cities and towns. In order to bring fresh water into the cities, Romans had to make access to lakes or springs. Sometimes hundreds of miles away a tunnel was dug to the mountains with the use of hand tools. Romans literally moved mountains in order to have access to fresh water. The key to the aqueduct success was Gaudi and the use of Arc's this not only gave the aqueduct strength but also meant less mater...

Roman Concrete Dome of Pantheon The largest unreinforced concrete dome in world is on the Pantheon. It’s not a modern marvel, but rather an ancient Roman temple built almost two thousand  years ago. So, if concrete structures from the western Roman Empire can last for thousands of years,  why does modern infrastructure look like this after only a couple of decades? In today’s topics, we’re taking a look at the factors that affect the design life  of concrete. We’ve talked about how concrete’s made, why it often needs reinforcement, and how  that reinforcement can sometimes lead to deterioration. Concrete reinforced with steel bars is the foundation of our modern society. The reinforcement is required to give the concrete strength against tensile stress. We use steel as reinforcement because of its strength, its similar thermal behavior, its a availability and low cost. But steel has an important weakness: it rusts. Not on...