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2022-04-11 21:18:00 A crater formed by the explosion of 19 mines placed under German positions near Messines in West Flanders on June 7, 1917.

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2022-04-11 19:19:00 The largest tortoise ever to have lived on Earth is the Archelon (Archelon ischyros). This giant Cretaceous sea turtle weighed more than 2.2 tons and reached 4.6 meters in length.

Yale Museum, 1902

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2022-04-11 15:13:00 Slavic toponyms in Europe

They were erased from the maps, but historical memory keeps the truth. The city of Stockholm was formerly known as Stekolny or Stekolnya. Venice comes either from the word "Venets", or from the Slavic tribe of the Veneds, like the city of Vienna. The Baltic Sea used to be called the Venedian.

From the Slavic tribe Alans comes the name of the French city of Alencon. Goto-Alania became Spanish Catalonia. The German city of Torgau and the Finnish city of Turku come from the Russian word to trade. The ancient name of Normandy is Neustria, that is, "unsettled" lands. In the old days, all foreigners, and not just residents of Germany, were called "Germans" in Russia, that is, dumb.

There is a hypothesis that the ancient Slavs encountered in Europe with a primitively developed local population.

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2022-04-11 11:02:00 The Moscow metro belongs to a completely different era

There is a theory that it worked before certain events X, after which there was a rollback of technology and the degradation of life. This event happened either during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, or before that.

That is why the construction of the metro was carried out with great secrecy.

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2022-04-11 08:07:00 Pantheon then and now

1. Painting by Hubert Robert, 18th century.
2. Our days.

Find 10 differences.

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