Legend of the Dragon Chinese & appearance in In History

Dragon, the most famous mythological creatures in the world. The whole world has thelegend of each. But it is undeniable that the Dragon of Chinese legend is most interesting.Could flying creatures bodied snakes, horned and has claws it really exist?
In Europe, dragons are always represented as an evil creature. However, for the people of China, the dragon symbolizes strength and power. So great tribute to this creature of the Chinese emperors who so gallant proudly wearing a dragon as their symbol.
For the Chinese, the dragon is one of the four spiritual beings who have the highestrespect. Three other creatures is a Phoenix, Qilin (Kirin) and the Tortoise. But among all,the dragon is the most powerful.

Characteristics of the Dragon and the number 9

In Chinese mythology, dragons have a very close relationship with the number "9". For example, the real Chinese dragon has nine characteristics that are a combination of other creatures.

1. He has a head like a camel
2. Scales like a fish
3. Horns like a deer
4. Her eyes were like a stealth
5. His ears were like the ox
6. Her neck like a snake
7. His stomach like oysters
8. The soles of his feet like a tiger
9. And paws are like eagles.

Addition to the 9 characteristics, the dragon in Chinese mythology is said to have ninechildren who also have different characteristics.
It also has 117 scales. 81 of them have the character of Yang (Positive) and another 36have the character of Yin (negative).

In general, the Chinese dragon has three or four claws on each foot. But the Chineseempire using the symbol of a dragon with five claws to show that the Emperor was not aregular dragon. This symbol became the exclusive symbol should only be used by the emperor. Anyone who dared to use the symbol of a dragon with five claws will soon be put to death.

Four Types of Dragons
In Chinese literature, at least not found more than 100 names of different dragons.However, for convenience, the Chinese Dragon usually classified into four types, namely:
Tien Lung the Heavenly Dragon or in charge of guarding the palace of the gods.
Shen Lung or Spiritual Dragon who has power over wind and rain
Ti Lung or Dragons of Earth who has power over water in the earth's surface
Lung or Dragons world Fucang under the charge of maintaining the earth's treasures that exist in it.
Four types of smelling dragon may be spiritual, but as I said above, there are still about 100 names other dragons.

Of the approximately 100 names, it is seen that the Chinese dragon is actually not always associated with spiritual beings. Could be, the dragon is an animal that has a real physical.

Therefore, we must separate the Spiritual Dragon with Dragon as a real animal.

Chinese dragon and Cryptozoology
For example, Jiao Lung or Dragons Crocodiles. Horned dragon and the species is not known as a leader of the water animals. Based on its name, there is a possibility that this type of dragon is a crocodile. The mention of this parallel as the Komodo Dragon is the name of the dragon to a giant reptilian creatures called dragons. This name clearly indicates that China's Dragon does not always mean flying creatures bodied snakes, horned, grouse and clawed.
Another example is the Pan Lung or Dragons Spiral. This type of dragon dwells in the lake and have not been able to ascend into heaven to be spiritual beings. This could be a dragon type creature refer to similar water snake or eel. Examples are Oarfish (who lived in the sea) that has enough unique characteristics that people often compare it with the Chinese dragon

There is a possibility that a similar creature sightings in the lakes Oarfish China has been regarded as the appearance of a dragon.

Then, there is Fei Lung aka the Dragon Fly. This dragon has wings and driving clouds and fog. Interestingly, this name is also used to refer to pterosaurs in Mandarin. Fei Lung is probably the same type of dragon with dragon Europe.

Dragon sightings in the history of China
If some Chinese Dragon can be categorized into the cryptid creatures, have no testimony about the sightings?
The answer: There!

History of the Chinese state has been started since thousands of years BC. During this period, scholars documenting every event in a neat records, including the events of dragon sightings at various places in China.

However, events that poured into it might have been interpreted based on the understanding of the Chinese nation and culture of the past so that some of the story sounds quite mystical. However, another story has similarities with the case of an encounter with cryptid creatures.

One example of a dragon sighting events recorded in the book Recording for the Jiaxing Regional Government is telling that in September 1588, a white dragon seen flying over the lake surface area of ​​Ping in Pinghu, Zhejiang province. Light emitted from the white dragon is so light that illuminates some of the sky with the bright red color.

In another book, Recording for the Songjiang Regional Government, stated that 20 years after the appearance of a white dragon in the lake Ping's, a similar white dragon is also seen flying over the Huangpu River in Songjiang, Shanghai. The dragon was seen in July 1608. An eyewitness said she saw a god was standing at the head of the dragon.

Testimony regarding the existence of god who drove the dragon is an example of an encounter with the dragon as a testimony of spiritual beings. In addition, there are other witnesses who did not mention the existence of god or dragon fly. Testimonies of this sounds very similar to the stories of cryptid sightings beings in general. Below are some examples:

In the 24 th of the reign of Emperor Jian'an Dong Han Dynasty (219 AD), a yellow dragon appeared in Chishui River in Wuyang city and dwelt there until nine days before finally going. After that, the villagers built a temple there and an inscription was made as a tribute to the dragon.

In April of the year 345 AD, the first year of the emperor Yonghe, two dragons, one white and the other black, appeared on the mountain Long. This makes for the emergence of the dragon emperor Murong Yan led a number of royal officials to the mountain to see the dragons. When it got there, they held a religious ceremony at a distance of 200 yards from both the dragon.

Hundreds of years later, in the same mountain, a dragon re-emerged. This event is recorded in the book History of the Yuan Dynasty

"In July, the 27-year reign of the emperor Zhiyuan (1290 AD), a dragon appeared near the mountain Long Linxong area, Shandong province. The dragon was able to make a big rock floating in the air.

No further explanation on how to make great stone dragon was flying.

Year 1162, a dragon dead found in the lake called Taibai. This dragon has a long tentacle with large scales. His back is black while the belly is white. On the back there is a fin, whereas in the head there are two big horns. Because the creature was issued a bad odor, the population then covered with a mattress. Local authorities immediately ordered the procurement of prayer ceremony at the site. One day after discovery, the carcass of the dragon lost some where.

Other testimony is recorded by the book Recording for the Lin'an Regional Government is telling that in the year 1631, the 4th year of the reign of emperor Chongzhen, a large dragon looks at a lake in Yunnan province. Because of this appearance, the lake is then given a name which means lake Yilong mysterious dragon. The name is still used today.

Another book, Amanded Recording of the Tang Dynasty, noted the discovery of a dead dragon events are black in Tongcheng territory. This incident occurred in the last year reign Xiantong emperor. Interestingly, this book provides a fairly detailed description of the dragon. Mentioned that the length of the dragon that is about 30 meters where half of its tail. The flat end of a dragon's tail, its scales like a fish and two horns on his head grow.Tentacle on the side of his mouth has a length of 6 meters. His legs are growing in her stomach has a layer of red. This description is very similar to the classic Chinese dragon picture.

Book Seven Books and Scriptures written Ying Long also noted the discovery of dragon events that occurred during the last year reign Chenghua emperor of the Ming Dynasty.The dragon is found on the coast of Xinhui, Guangdong province. Fishermen who saw it hit the creature to death. The length of the dragon is about 10 feet and looks similar to a dragon in classical paintings. This story is quite strange because a fisherman who saw the dragon is generally not going to beat him to death, remembering the Chinese have great respect for these creatures. Perhaps the creature was disturbing to the fishermen, but we can not tell.

Books History for the Yongping Regional Government notes that in the spring of the 19th reign of Emperor Daoguang (1839), a dragon is found on a riverbank in the area Laoting Luanhe. Dragon carcass was seen surrounded by flies and maggots. The locals then built a shelter to protect it from direct sunlight. They also poured cold water on his body. Legend has it that three days later, the dragon back to life and walked away.

Modern events involving the discovery of a dragon is occurring in August 1944. Preached black dragon fell to the ground in the village Weizi Chen family in the yard, about 9.4 miles northwest of Zhaoyuan region, south of Mudan River in Heilongjiang province. The black dragon is found in a lifeless condition. Witnesses said that this creature has horns on his head and the scales that cover his entire body. The creature has a smell like fish that attract flies to surrounded him.

From all the testimony, appears one interesting question. If the dragon mentioned in some of the testimony was a real animal, the animal does have a body like a snake, horns, legs and has a tentacle on the side of his mouth?

That's the mystery.

Hitler's Letter of Agreement With the Devil

Dr. Leiber Greta from Germany, a paranormal specialist demon hunter who finds a mysterious letter agreement but is expected authentic.

In the ruins of the former building used by Adolf Hitler committed suicide, Dr. Greta found a Letter of Agreement which allegedly is the agreement between Hitler and Satan.

The letter agreement dated 30 April 1932. This letter was signed with the blood of both parties. In it, the devil named Lucifer promised to give to Hitler unlimited power.

The Fuhrer would be the absolute ruler of the whole country of Germany and parts of Europe, so it will be praised and honored millions of people. Although to get all of it must use the power of large-scale evil. In return Hitler gave his soul to the devil 13 years later.

In front of 11 people Dihadirkannya panelists in a symposium, Dr.. Greta says that: "Pact treaty truly authentic".
"What is written in it, fits well with the course of history and hundreds of cases that occurred during World War II took place" he added.

According to Dr. Greta, history has shown, that Hitler failed in his action before the year 1932. "He failed to finish high school. Also 2 times slumped in art school entrance exams. He became unemployed, and even once went to jail," said Dr. Greta about some of Hitler's life journey.

Post-1932, Hitler's life completely changed. People began to listen to his remarks. Like a rocket, his career took off very quickly. Right in the month of January 1933 Hitler had become ruler of the German Kingdom.
And on April 30, 1945, exactly 13 years from the date of the agreement with the devil Pact was signed, Hitler's power collapsed.

Copy of the agreement allegedly made between Hitler and Lucifer was found in an iron chest, in the former building where Hitler thought of suicide. Although the letter was slightly damaged but still legible. The letter agreement is now in the Berlin Institute of History Germany as research material.

History Letter Font Times New Roman

Calling the Times New Roman, certainly many people who know.This typeface is used as a standard typing letters in the world. Its existence is widely known by people from all walks of the profession. However, how many of us who know the history of the creation of font type Times New Roman is this?

Stanley Morrison

This letter was designed by an Englishman named Stanley Morrison. He was born on May 6, 1889 in Wanstead, United Kingdom. Stanley grew up as a figure who has no knowledge about printing, but later on he occupied many important positions in the world. Knowledge that much in terms of typographic printing obtained since becoming a member of The Pelican Press.

Her love of God makes a lot of reading religious books, even the work of the first tipografinya also intended for the church. Once out of The Pelican Press, he worked for Cloister Press in Manchester. Many of the designs produced his best when he worked at this company. Again, his work reflects the background of many Catholic churches, it is seen in the illustrations and assorted decorations that he used. Because he hated the war, making motion antiperangnya he was imprisoned for four years (1914-1918).

Starting from the newspaper "Times"
For approximately 30 years (1929-1960) Stanley Morrison, a consultant letter to The Times newspaper in London, England. As a consultant letter, in 1931 he told the Times, "The Times is a newspaper that has had its own customers, we require a letter that is not the same as merchandise in general, letters should be basically good, but it also reflects the strength of the line,consistency, and economical for The Times ".

Because of his words was, October 3, 1932 became a day of marketing the font "Times" to the masses, because on that day for the first time the newspaper The Times printed using typeface named as the newspaper itself. Stanley Morrison was not the only person who was behind the screen success of the letter. He also assisted his friend named Victor Lardent as the person who drew the draft of this letter.

The letter named the Times is quickly becoming very popular at that time, widely used in newspapers, magazines, books and corporate annual reports. This letter is registered licensed to The Monotype Corporation in the United Kingdom, but also registered with the Linotype companies licensed in the United States, because many newspaper The Times of registering licenses its products to the Linotype. Finally, in 1945, The American Linotype Company to register the trade name "Times Roman" separately, not as a part of The Times or Monotype. This is where the differences occur for the use of letters of this name in computers.Linotype and companies under a license like Adobe and Apple Macintosh using the name "Times Roman", while Monotype with companies such as Microsoft under license using the name "Times New Roman".

In the era of the 80s, Monotype Times New Roman redesign and claims that the letters are in the redesign is better than Times Roman owned by Linotype. Because not to be outdone, in adjacent time periods, Adobe, Linotype also launched a new series of letters the Times, which of course they claim the new letter also better than Monotype's font. In fact, some or perhaps all users of this letter will not notice or will not even mempermasalah's a difference between them even though the letters are printed very clearly with a size of 10 pt in high resolution 300 dpi.

Regardless of the various conflicts in the above, it is evident that the Stanley Morrison has succeeded in creating a good letter with its own trademark so that this typeface is remembered and used by many today. He died on October 11, 1967 in London, England.

8 Historic Caves in the World

1. Petra, Jordan.
City of Petra in Jordan is known as the setting of the movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It's also one of the 7 new wonders of the world, and very easy to see why the architecture is among the most sophisticated ever seen. Built into the slopes of Mount Hor, Petra developed during Roman times, but not known by the western world until 1812 when it was discovered by Swiss explorer, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. More than 800 individual monuments can be seen in Petra, including the cemetery, where baths, temples and burial chamber.

2. Al-Hijr, Saudi Arabia.
Among the most famous sites of Saudi Arabia is Al Hijr architecture, also known as Madain Saleh. The front of a residence in Al Hijr has been carved into the sandstone mountains are sometimes in the second millennium BC. Al Hijr - which literally means 'rocky place' - is believed to have been inhabited by the Nabataeans and Thamud. It features water wells, preserved monumental tombs, inscriptions and cave drawings.

3. Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia.
The most amazing structure was carved out of stone churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia. 11 rock hewn churches have each carved from a single block of granite with a roof at ground level. 12th-century King Lalibela churches commissioned with the aim of creating a New Jerusalem for those who can not make a pilgrimage to the original city. Each church was created by a wide trench carved on all four sides of the stone and then painstakingly carving out the interior. The greatest of them stood as high as 40 meters.

4. Nubian Monuments Abu Simbel, Egypt.
Four colossal statues of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II guard the door of Abu Simbel, a temple cut from the sandstone cliffs above the River Nile. Commissioned by Ramesses himself, the temple facing the east so that twice a year, the sun reaches into the innermost sanctuary, illuminating the statues of Ptah, Amun-Re, Ramesses II and Re-Horakhty. Complex removed entirely from its original setting in 1960 to avoid flooding when Lake Nasser was created.

5. Goa Elepant, the Elephant Cave Temple, Bali.
Gojah goa, Goa Gajah, Bali is one of the most historical sites significant. Cave seems most devastated by natural disasters old, and was not detected for centuries until a team of Dutch archaeologists discovered it in 1923. Thought has been built in the 11th century, Goa Gojah statue features influenced by Hindu and Buddhist meditation and contains a secret chamber for priests or hermits. Two traditional bathing pools outside the cave containing water is said to have magical properties.

6. Cappadocia Cave Houses, Turkey.
Cappadocia is one of 73 provinces during the Republic of Turkey, and has one of the most bizarre and interesting sights in the world. Soil, stone dwarf features tufa rock formations' strange volcanic referred to as' Fairy Chimneys' and cities underground complexes and buildings cut from 'tuff' soft. Many of them are the church, with columns and arches decorate the face of a declared natural stone from stone.

7. Ancient Rock City of Matera, Italy.
In the town of Matera in ancient rocks in southwestern Italy, people living in the exact same house that they are not ancestors 9,000 years ago. Matera was created from a rocky ravine and natural caves which many in the area - called the 'Sassi in Matera' - is the first home of the Neolithic inhabitants of the region. Cave created a labyrinth of houses, and it's almost impossible to distinguish the natural rock formations of ancient architecture. The houses seem to grow out of rock with an organic way, creating some of the attractions of what is in the mid-20th century to a ghost town. Matera is mainly the setting for Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ '.

8. Yungang Grottoes, China.
The Yungang Grottoes of Datong in Shanxi province of China consists of 53 caves and 51,000 statues, and is one of China's most beautiful examples of cave art. Giant Buddha towers above visitors wind through the cave to see many statues in it. Most of the works of art ever in the caves were stolen in the early 20th century wooden temple buildings and caves are protected once burned to the ground. So, the site is now in dire need of protection and has been named a UNESCO world heritage site.