THE CURSE OF ÁLVARO OBREGÓN'S PISTOL

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The macabre and dark history of the wandering mummy

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The Art of War II

The Emperor entrusted the army to Sun-Tzu, who bravely defended the kingdom until defeating the enemy.

When Sun-Tzu had won the war, the Emperor of Wu, became despot and cruel, tyrannical and abusive.

Sun-Tzu did not want to work for somebody like this, but to despise the Emperor condemned him to an almost certain death, so that one night, leaving behind all the riches that the Emperor had granted to him, it left with stealth heading east. The few who came to see him said that he wore no cloak, no sword, not even his boots, since he was barefoot.

When asked that after so many battles, what he had won, he answered "my freedom", rode on into the dark night and never saw him again. (The Art of War)

THE ART OF WAR

When the Emperor mockingly asked Sun Tzu, if he could organize an army, he accepted the challenge. What he did not know was that instead of soldiers, the emperor would send him 180 prostitutes, including his two favorite concubines. Seeing the rowdy women, Sun Tzu did not flinch. He approached them and asked if they could distinguish the left from the right, and the Emperor's 180 concubines said yes. Then Sun Tzu told them: "at my voice they will turn to the left or right flank, as I tell them," but when Sun Tzu gave the order, the women laughed. Sun Tzu thought, "If the order was not understood, because the soldiers do not know how to execute it, it is the fault of the one who gave the order, that is, the fault is mine." He went back to the women and showed them which was the left hand and the right, but when they gave the order to flip the flank, the women laughed again and touched their hair. Sun Tzu thought: "If the order is not well executed because it was not well explained, it is the fault of the one who gave the order, that is, mine" and returned to approach the women. This time, Sun Tzu explained to them which was the left and which was the right, even he executed the exercises to set the example. When he gave the order, the women burst into laughter again. Then Sun Tzu thought, "If the command was well given and well understood, and still not fulfilled, then it is the soldier's fault." He stepped forward with firm feet toward the women, drew his sharp sword and beheaded the two favorite concubines of the Emperor, then gave the order of left flank, and the 178 women turned in a perfectly synchronized movement. Sun Tzu addressed the Emperor, who was horrified at the bleak sword of the strategist: "Your Majesty, the army is ready" (The Art of War)

Herculaneum's Destruction

Located near what is now Naples, in Italy, in the vicinity of Mount Vesuvius. The small but wealthy city of Herculaneum, the protagonist of this story was. On the other side of Vesuvius, the famous city of Pompeii was.
On 24 August 79 AD, the inhabitants of Herculaneum were his life normally, without suspecting that death hovered right around the corner.
Shortly before noon, a huge roar that rocked the ground and shook the whole city was heard. Soon after, an eruption caused the top of Mount Vesuvius erupted in boiling fragments totaled more than 20 kilometers high, so that reached the stratosphere.
We do not know what the reaction of the people at that time, but recent observations reveal that disaster of this size, people are like hypnotized and instead of running away, is staring apparently unaware of the danger.
After an hour of rash have occurred, they started falling volcanic debris, but the wind carried the ashes to the neighboring city of Pompeii, where fragments of incandescent rock roofs and melted ash completely hid the sun. The noise must have been terrifying.
But Herculaneum, the vision of the plume rose vertically without threat to the city. All the fragments had the wind direction to Pompeii.
Herculaneum residents felt safe and thanked their gods for having protected the city. But in the middle of the night, the huge plume of smoke lost livelihoods and collapsed in horrid crash on Herculaneum numb.
The pyroclastic flow, which is a combination of burning particles and hot gases, rushed like a hurricane of fire without giving time to nothing.
Both cities, Herculaneum and Pompeii were missing buried under the burning ashes. Pompeii lay three meters underground. Herculano however, was under 20 meters of ash and volcanic rock.
Pompeii, being only three meters underground, had some rescue attempts, but Herculano had been wiped off the face of the earth.
Slowly the years passed and the centuries fell like leaves of ancient tree of time.
In the eighteenth century, a peasant was a well looking for water but in his effort, which was met with a lost and forgotten city of Herculaneum.
Gradually, archaeologists were discovering the ruins of the city and it opened their door to direct Roman way of life at that time,
because while other cities of the empire had slowly deteriorated by abandonment and inclement environment, and buried Herculaneum had remained silent, intact as a time capsule.
The houses, with their furniture and beds and even their cooking utensils, were as their owners had left them 600 thousand years ago.
Wonderful sculptures, exquisite mosaics and frescoes painted beautifully. It was all there: the furniture of precious wood carvings were petrified preserving detail with incredible accuracy.
Since some houses the ruins they found the table set giving the impression that people had left in a hurry, archaeologists came to believe that the people of Herculaneum had escaped and left the city behind. But recently archaeologists made a gruesome discovery: In what had been the boathouse of the city, a kind of dock where people took boats to enter and leave the place, were 300 bodies, mostly of women and children. They huddled and hugging each other, maybe they were waiting for a rescue that never came.
A wave of scalding pyroclastic flow reached them, making the flesh, muscles and viscera evaporate instantly.
At this temperature, the brain begins to boil and to be confined within the skull, the steam exerts such pressure that makes your head explode like a balloon.
They even found the body of a young mother with a baby in her arms. The woman was pregnant and fetal skeletal remains inside.
It was certainly tragic fate of the inhabitants of Herculaneum and Pompeii. It's any consolation, thanks to the ruins of both cities we know almost exactly the Roman way of life of 2000 years ago.
According to information published by the BBC on its website from June 16, 2011, a team of British archaeologists discovered in the ancient city of Herculaneum, a sewer containing 774 bags of excrement a length of almost 2thousand years.
The strange thing is that the quality and consistency of the droppings were so good as to make medical tests after almost 20 centuries have remained underground.
These analyzes allowed the researchers to discover the diet of the inhabitants of this city: Sea urchins, eggs, figs, olives, nuts and dormice. The latter considered a delicacy of the upper class.

Ladies First.

Ladies first.
The origin of the gallant gesture of passing the ladies first as a gesture of good education, is lost in the mists of time. However there are some theories that try to explain, albeit vaguely,how this act turned on a rule of etiquette and good manners in the Western world.
The first theory states that before a danger, either imminent or in progress (a flood or fire inside your home, for example) prehistoric man trying to rescue their belongings higher value (women) who certainly formed the most important part of their heritage, and that of females who gave birth and raised kids, depended the preservation of their species. Taking the step to the female, making it out of the danger zone as soon as possible, he raised the chances of survival. Such behavior became part of the genetic program of Homo sapiens and greatly helped the evolutionary development of our species. Sounds good, however, this theory loses strength to observe the behavior of some Eastern cultures, where the woman is always a few steps behind the man and concluded that if such behavior were part of the genetic heritage of homo sapiens, should be universal and as we have shown, it is not.
Another widely accepted theory tells us to look at the Middle Ages, the origin of the gallant detail let the ladies first. The lurking dangers and betrayals medieval man were literally across the door. If a palatial murderer hid behind the door waiting for his victim, enough to let the lady go first, so she suffered the attack, deferring to the man who was the great patriarch, owner of the nobility and the family inheritance . With everything and be more theory accepted by scholars, I doubt that such a cowardly act could have become a feature of gallantry and chivalry so widespread in the West.
A little known theory and almost always rejected by intelectuals, is the one that says that the gentleman always lets pass the simple lady and simply to see the buttocks. Recreador sight of man and flattering to the female ego gesture. Make yourself the test, the next time you are about to cross a door, let the ladies go first. I think enough to stop talking common sense to realize whether or not it is, is the most successful theory

Actually Christopher Columbus discovered America?

Before captained by Christopher Columbus fleet put to sea, the Catholic Monarchs offered a pension and a prize of 10,000 maravedis the first man who sighted land.

Almost three months later and about to face a rebellion, Columbus added to one Silk Vest prize. His sailors had long without seeing land and were afraid to sail into the unknown. They had demanded immediate return to Spain but Columbus asked one week later and it was granted.
The morning of October 12, 1492 the sailor Rodrigo de Triana was stationed in the Watchtower when he sighted land. The cry of land in sight made his companions took of happiness, as soon dropped from the tower, they carried on shoulders and kissed his hands, hugged her breasts and swore eternal gratitude.

Columbus noted in the logbook that the first sight of land was Rodrigo de Triana.
Back in Spain, the sailor claimed the prize, but had been granted to Christopher Columbus, who told the Spanish monarchs have been he who first sighted the coast. De Triana, which was not very ambitious said then settle with Vest, but even that was given. Disenchanted, renounced the Christian faith, he converted to Islam and died in obscurity in no man's land north of the African continent, while Columbus enjoyed the prize and is remembered as the discoverer of America.
But the name of the newly discovered continent, America has little to do with Columbus.
He died without knowing he had discovered unknown land. Was the Italian Amerigo Vespucci who skirting of the continent realized it was a whole new world, Al publish cartography, maps Américo signed his name without giving credit to Columbus. The continent was called America in his honor and Christopher Columbus did not even notice it.
But the champion of stolen honors perhaps the Serbian inventor Nicola Tesla. Many attributed to Thomas Alva Edison inventions were actually made by Tesla, while working for him. When finished an invention Tesla, Edison gave him a couple of pats on the back and was checking the invention to the patent office ... his name.
Similarly, all the work of Guillermo Marconi and radio waves, were based on a patent of Tesla, but when Marconi made the first transmission across the English Channel and became fame and fortune, the name of Tesla remained anonymous. Patent AC system we use today, was snatched by the company Tesla White Westinghouse while working for her.
Apparently Tesla had the misfortune of working for bosses fly. To understand what a fly head must mention a Spanish stock fable. An ox pulls the plow all day. Near the end of a fly comes and stands in the back of the ox, as soon concludes the task, the fly flies into the woods and presumed to have plowed the earth. And when the ox out / had the job done / plow fly / very plump and contented said.

Bill Gates copied the "Doors" system invented by Steve Jobs and was the basis for his hit "Windows" operating system. Steve Jobs was the charismatic founder of Apple, globally celebrated and revered by a generation of users of technology products, but the real genius of circuits in Apple was Steve Wozniak
Statistics say that 20% of staff will work while the remaining 80% will differ from its obligations or do nothing things. Ie if at school they commissioned a team and the team is formed by 5 students. Only one work while the other 4 play Xbox, mensajean by phone or surf the internet. At the end of the grade will be the same for all team members have worked or not.

At work weaves an intricate network of contacts and intricate systems echelons, and it is very common for bosses or colleagues attributed tasks that have not done them without giving credit to the real perpetrators.
Life is not fair and not always give honor to whom honor is due. Whether you have a boss or a colleague fly fly, do not let anyone take away credit you belong. If necessary up to the highest lookout tower, and shout with all your strength "Land ahoy" you cry resound in our ears 5oo years after being launched.