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In New Zealand, things change slowly. Life is quiet, unhurried and prosperous. The British explorer, Captain James Cook was the first European to visit New Zealand. He got here in 1796. Many traders followed him. At the first time, they were trading in wood, whale oil and other local products. They were classified as a tough crowd. Some were escaped criminals and others were people who wanted to leave industrial Europe. In 1840, New Zealand was a British colony. Many immigrants arrived from Euro...
Published by Yanto Yulianto 15 months ago in Anthropology | +8 votes | 3 comments
Most people find it difficult to create an online dating profile. Actually, online dating profile is the first opportunity to attract your potential partner and one of the first steps towards success for singles. The aim of this article is to help single woman/girl to write an online dating profile to attract men/guys and generate responses & meetings/dates with the right type of guys. This article is friendly and simple, giving the reader a few great ways to making their online dating profile.
Published by Yanto Yulianto 16 months ago in Online Dating | +6 votes | 0 comments
It started in 1886, when John Pemberton, a chemist from Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., succeeded in making a special kind of liquid mixture. After that, a new kind of beverage began to spread in the United States, and later on, all over the world. It took some years of experiments before Pemberton found the right recipe for this thick, dark-brown mixture which become a refreshing, non-alcoholic beverage after it is added to soda water. He gave this new drink the name coca-cola. Millions of bottles of...
Published by Yanto Yulianto 17 months ago in History | +7 votes | 3 comments
One hundred and fifty-four years ago, on February 22th, 1857, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell was born in London. His father was the Reverend H.G. Baden-Powell, a professor at Oxford University, and his mother was the daughter of a British admiral, W.T. Smyth. As a boy Baden-Powell was the centre of interest among his friends. He liked music, acting on a stage and football and was very talented in drawing. He could use both his right and his left hands.
Published by Yanto Yulianto 17 months ago in History | +3 votes | 1 comments
Mr. Daeng lived in Thailand. One day, in 1880, he went to the market. He came to a Chinese rattan shop. In the shop he saw some rattan balls about 12 cm. across. He asked the shopkeeper what they were. “They’re just toys”, said the Chinese. “They’re called takraw. Mr. Daeng brought some takraw balls, and took them home. He was very interested in sports. At his home he invented a new game, using these rattan balls. He called the game after them, takraw. Today, takraw is very popular game. It...
Published by Yanto Yulianto 17 months ago in Sports | +2 votes | 1 comments
Soccer or association football is one form of football in which the ball may not be touched with the hand except by the goal-keeper. Rugby is the other form of football, but it is different from soccer in the fact that the players are permitted to carry the ball and to prevent their opponents from doing this. The more popular of the two forms is soccer, which in Asia is simply known as “football”. It was only a century ago that people knew about it or had seen it played. Yet long before the da...
Published by Yanto Yulianto 17 months ago in Football | +0 votes | 0 comments
Iceland is very cold, and there are not many people. One thousand years ago, there were only a few thousand people. The people were shepherds. Sometimes they had to go far from home, to find food for the sheep. They lived in small huts in remote places. So they invented a new sport. It was partly for entertainment, and partly to help them keep warm. It was called glima. In Iceland, there were two other requirements for sport. Sport must not be dangerous. The ground is often frozen hard. If you f...
Published by Yanto Yulianto 17 months ago in Martial Arts & Self-Defense | +0 votes | 0 comments
The Parthenon was perfect. It was the most beautiful building in the ancient world. It was the chief temple of the Acropolis, the temple complex of Athens. The design, proportions and decoration of the Parthenon were all perfect but it was not safe from war. In fact, the Parthenon was built as a war memorial. It was built in the 5th Century B.C., after the Greeks had defeated Persia. It took nine years to build. The finest quality marble was used. Over the years this has turned a lovely honey co...
Published by Yanto Yulianto 17 months ago in Archaeology | +5 votes | 2 comments
Perhaps you know the story of Robinson Crusoe, the hero of Daniel Defoe’s famous novel. In the story we read that he was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island where he experienced a lot of adventures, until finally a passing vessel took him off the island. Defoe’s novel is by no means an original creation. It is based on the true story of a British sailor named Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721). Crusoe’s story island was located at the mouth of the Orinoco River, not far off Trinidad an island tha...
Published by Yanto Yulianto 17 months ago in History | +1 votes | 1 comments
It was first found by a Portuguese missionary at the end of 16th century. He reported his discovery to his superiors. He told them about an incredible deserted city, deep in dense jungle in Indo China. In his report he said that he had seen ruined palaces, halls and temples of surprising size and beauty but nobody believed him. His story was regarded as no more than an imaginary tale. In 1601, the lost city was discovered for the second time by another Portuguese called Quiroga de San Antonio th...
Published by Yanto Yulianto 17 months ago in Archaeology | +3 votes | 1 comments
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