Kumbukumbu za ulimwengu (World Archives)

Magharibi mwa Bonde la Nile nchini Misri ni jangwa lisilo na maji

Ina bonde waliloliita (Bonde la Nyangumi) kwa sababu ya mifupa ya nyangumi wenye ndevu wanaoogelea mahali hapa ilipokuwa bahari miaka mingi iliyopita.

Eneo hilo limeainishwa na UNESCO kuwa ni Eneo la Urithi wa Dunia na unapolitembelea utapata mifupa kamili ya nyangumi katikati ya jangwa....

Sri lanka [emoji1224] 1870s -1890s

Vidonge vya zamani vya Mayan vilivyopatikana vinaweza kuonyesha mwingiliano kati ya wanadamu na wageni.

Rat king in the scientific museum Mauritianum Altenburg, Germany.

Learn more: The Ancient Legend of the Monstrous Rat King

Huduma ya Siri ya Marekani inajulikana sana kwa kuwalinda marais na familia zao - lakini shirika hilo lilianzishwa mwaka 1865 ili kukomesha ulanguzi wa sarafu na noti bandia. Baada ya Vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe, theluthi moja ya fedha zote za taifa hilo zilikuwa ghushi.

This is the Welbeck Street Car Park in London.

It was built in 1970 and knocked down in 2019, one of many Brutalist buildings demolished in recent years.

Love it or hate it, the destruction of Brutalism might turn out to be a mistake...

There's also the Burroughs Wellcome Building in North Carolina, built in 1972 and demolished in 2021.

Or the Prentice Women's Hospital Building in Chicago, built in 1975 and demolished in 2012.

Or La Pagoda in Madrid, built in 1967 and demolished in 1999.

Via the Swedish "nybrutalism" it became New Brutalism in Britain in the 1950s, and the name has stuck.

The concrete was an aesthetic statement, an embrace of the modern world and of a brighter future. This was Brutalism's founding ideal in the decades following WWII.