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Evolution of Toilet System - 2500 BC to 1990 AD

Sulabh International Museum of Toilets

Highlights in the Evolution of Toilet System - 2500 BC to 1990 AD

.BC 2500: In Mohenjo - daro, there existed highly developed drainage system where waste water from each house flowed into the main drain.
.BC 1000: In the Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf, flush type toilet was discovered.
.AD 69: Vespasianus (Otto Empire) for the first time levied Tax on Toilets.
.1214 AD: Construction for the first time of public toilets manned by scavengers in Europe.
.1596 AD: JD Harrington invents W.C.
.1668 AD: Edict issued by Police Commissioner Paris, construction of Toilets in all houses.
.1728 AD: Architect J.F. Brondel argues that attached toilet is ideal.
.1739 AD: First separate toilet for men and women appear at a ball in Paris.
.1824 AD: First Public Toilet in Paris.
.1859 AD: Toilet of Queen Victoria is decorated with gold.
.1883 AD: First Ceramic Toilet by Thomas Turiferd for Queen Victoria.
.1889 AD: Sewage Treatment for the first time in the world.
.1959 AD: All surface Toilets abandoned (Paris).
.1970 AD: Sulabh International is established by Bindeshwar Pathak,as a non-profit NGO in Bihar.
.1980 AD: Installation of Auto - control Public Toilet.

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10 Most Fascinating Tombs in the World

clipped from www.neatorama.com Newgrange the world’s oldest surviving building Tana Toraja the bones are offered cigarettes or various offerings Westminster Abbey Newton’s grave Giza Necropolis Valley of the Kings Catacombs of Paris Terracota Army the burial ground of Qin Shi Huangdi Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo Sedlec Ossuary Taj Mahal the most beautiful mausoleum Bonus: Here is another one that didn’t quite make the list: City of the Dead in Northern Ossetia, Russia Local legends have it that in the 18th century, a plague swept through Ossetia. The clans built quarantine houses for sick family members, who were provided with food, but not freedom to move about, until death claimed their lives. A slow and painful way to go, indeed.

Where Does Money Come From?

"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere -- so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive -- that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
-Woodrow Wilson

Where does money come from?

Why doesn't your government own it's own money?

Why does your government borrow all it's money from private banks at interest?

What is "fractional reserve banking?"

Our money system is a big fucking ponzi scheme, based on debt. IOUs. And IOUs taken out against IOUs.

This is how the housing market collapsed, massive numbers of people unable (or too fucking smart) to continue paying the debt on houses that ad less value than the debt itself.

If you use money and carry any kind of debt, you need to watch this video.

clipped from video.google.com Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its "Duncan Initiative" received high praise from those who previewed it. I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system in Canada and the United States.

Stalin loolalike gets freebies galore!

clipped from www.iht.com Jamil Ziyadaliev, a Stalin impersonator in Georgia, with his wife, Fakizar. He says his resemblance to the most famous Georgian gets him many free meals Even after war, many Georgians revere Stalin He is a frequent hired guest at weddings, where he dances to Soviet Katyusha music from World War II. The benefits of looking eerily like the former dictator, he boasts, include free meals, free car repairs — and free passage through Russian checkpoints. "Looking like Stalin is like having a visa in Georgia," said Ziyadaliev, a Muslim originally from Azerbaijan, who drove a taxi, peddled vegetables and worked as an accountant before deciding on a career as a modern incarnation of the brutal, diabolically brilliant Soviet tyrant.

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clipped from www.mymusictools.com Flash animation is very popular all over the Internet. The reason is quite simple and obvious: flexibility. You can embed anything into a flash file, and it will be played on any computer that supports this format. Whole websites are built with flash. Flash-player plug-ins exist for all common browsers and operating systems. A typical flash file usually contains several elements. Among them are pictures, sounds, videos. If you want to extract some of those particular elements, you may find Flash Decompiler Trillix quite useful. Step 2: Start the program and open your flash file.