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The world's oldest hotel. Opened in 705 AD. 

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crazy. why am i not surprised it's in japan
 
The world's oldest bridge is in Turkey over the river Meles in Izmir, built in 1850 BC. It's basic. A stone slab single arch.

The two ways bridges weaken: compression and tension.

Job No. 1 of a bridge is to support its own weight: Job 1.1 is to support all of the live load (traffic) that goes across it as well.

Two ways to counteract tension and compression: Dissipation (spread out force equally over a wide area) and transference (move an area of weakness to an area of strength). Suspension bridges are best at transference.
 
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In 1545 - a cookbook includes some account of domestic life, cookery and feasts in Tudor days, called A Proper newe Booke of Cokerye, included a recipe for Apple Pie.

The following paragraph's spelling and wording are quoted directly from that book.

"To make pyes of grene apples - Take your apples and pare them cleane and core them as ye wyll a Quince, then make youre coffyn after this maner, take a lyttle fayre water and half a dyche of butter and a little Saffron, and sette all this upon a chafyngdyshe tyll it be hoate then temper your flower with this sayd licuor, and the whyte of two egges and also make yourcoffyn and ceason your apples with Sinemone,Gynger and Suger ynoughe. Then putte them into your coffin and laye halfe a dyshe of butter above them and so close your coffin, and so bake them."

In 1590 - Robert Greene, an English dramatist and poet, could think of no greater compliment in praise of a lovely lady, wrote the following in his prose called Arcadia: "They breath is like the steame of apple-pyes."

In 1620 - When the English colonists arrived in North America they found only crab apples. Crab apple trees are the only native apples to the United States. European settlers arrived and brought with them their English customs and favorite fruits. In colonial time apples were called winter banana or melt-in-the-mouth.
 
Some of you may have seen it already, but it's the Coldest Paint Job I've Ever Seen.
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*NOTE: On 2nd Glance... it might be Printed Panels. Still Dope.
 
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Did the legend/myth of the Cyclops begin with the discovery of this? An elephant skull, where the trunk cavity was confused for a single eye socket?

PROLLY.

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Dwarf elephant skull: The myth of the Cyclops may have been fueled by fossil discoveries of dwarf elephants with the central nasal cavity--where the trunk was attached--mistaken for a single eye socket.
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JPZx said:
Did the legend/myth of the Cyclops begin with the discovery of this? An elephant skull, where the trunk cavity was confused for a single eye socket?

PROLLY.

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Dwarf elephant skull: The myth of the Cyclops may have been fueled by fossil discoveries of dwarf elephants with the central nasal cavity--where the trunk was attached--mistaken for a single eye socket.
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Well, except for the fact that things literally can be born with one centered eye. Saw a piglet like that, they don't live long in most cases
 
But those are two eye sockets on the further sides of the skull right? Why would they assume one eye rather than 3? The middle cavity doesn't even look like an eye socket.

Man, I need some sleep.
 
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But those are two eye sockets on the further sides of the skull right? Why would they assume one eye rather than 3?
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We gotta consider when this myth came about. People were simpler and thankfully hundreds of years can change that. I'm sure with it being an oral story that likely got passed from groups of people to groups of people, a lot of embellishment was involved as well.
 
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