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2022-04-29 02:03:07 The first NFTs integrated into Telegram!

The Animals Red List NFT project is getting ready to launch on the TON blockchain with minting to take place on April 28.

The NFT Collection features 13,333 endangered animal species, and a portion of the funds from the donations will go to support endangered animals.

Gorgeous, Noble, and Extravagant.

— In case you haven't realized, these NFTs are going to skyrocket in value in a couple of days.

Take part in the project and support the animals — Animals Red List Open / Comment

2022-04-28 20:18:00 American prisoners of war freed from a Japanese concentration camp, Philippines, 1945.

U.S. prisoners of war Lee Rogers and John C. Todd, released from a Japanese internment camp on the campus of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. Open / Comment

2022-04-28 17:18:00 Photo from a book by Herman Turk, military doctor of the 3rd Armored Division of the Wehrmacht.

It depicts the commissar of the 148th Division, Colonel Mirian Levanovich Odisharia, 39 years old. When the crew of the machine gun was killed, the commissar Odisharia continued to lead the fire. After the battle he was taken prisoner, shell-shocked. The photo was taken on 02.08.1941 in Mogilev region, in the village Zvenchatka.

In ten minutes he would be shot. Open / Comment

2022-04-28 14:18:00 Félicette is the only cat so far to have survived a space flight. On October 18, 1963, Félicette, a stray cat found on the streets of Paris, was sent into space on the Véronique AGI 47 rocket. The flight lasted 15 minutes, after which the capsule with the animal successfully returned to Earth. Open / Comment

2022-04-27 21:18:00 Cecil Chubb bought Stonehenge for his wife in 1915.

The millionaire paid £6,600 (about $777,000 in today's money) for the strange pile of stones. The wife, however, disliked the monument, and three years later Cecil donated it to the British nation on the condition that it be kept as is, if possible, unaltered and freely accessible. Open / Comment

2022-04-27 17:18:00 In the Middle Ages, those convicted of a crime were subjected to hordes ("God's judgment," or the trial by water and fire).

In one version of the trial, the condemned person had to put his hand into boiling water - if the hand remained unburnt, it meant that God had protected him and the person was released. Open / Comment

2022-04-27 14:18:00 The Count Zeppelin over the Cathedral of Ulm, 1930.

The "Count Zeppelin" is now much less well known than the later airship "Hindenburg", but in its time it was undoubtedly the most famous airship in the world. Built in 1928, the vehicle operated for 9 years as a passenger airship, took part in many, "hyped" by the press events, of which the most high-profile was the circumnavigation of the globe, for nearly 600 flights carried 13,000 passengers.

After the death of the Hindenburg, the operation of the airship was discontinued, and during the Second World War, the Graf Zeppelin was dismantled for parts. Open / Comment

2022-04-27 13:00:13 The first NFTs integrated into Telegram!

Right now, the Animals Red List project is getting ready to launch on the TON blockchain

These are NFTs featuring 13,333 endangered animal species. A portion of the funds from the donations will go to support the populations.

Gorgeous. Noble. Expensive.

— In case you haven't realized, in a couple of days, these pictures are gonna skyrocket in value.

Take part in the project and support the animals — Animals Red List Open / Comment

2022-04-26 21:17:01 Magellan had no intention of making a round-the-world voyage, merely to find a westerly route to the Moluccas Islands and return.

It was only the threat of Portuguese attack that compelled one of the ships to continue westward and eventually circumnavigate the globe, but Magellan himself died in battle in the Philippines during the voyage. Open / Comment

2022-04-26 17:17:02 Sketches of cats and lions - Leonardo da Vinci. The artist's inscription on the drawing reads:

"These species of animals, of which the lion is king, because of how flexible his backbone is." Open / Comment