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Saint Veronica is a legendary woman who followed Jesus’ on his journey to Golgotha, where he would be crucified. On the way, the woman is said to have dried Jesus’ sweaty and bloodied face with a cloth.

In a Copenhagen sculpture museum, hundreds of noses hang on a wall. The plaster noses were once pasted by conservators onto mutilated statues from antiquity, but were later removed. Today, the loose noses form a kind of “nose pharmacy. In Denmark, one therefore speaks of the nasothek.

The invention of the telescope is often attributed to the Dutch lens sharpener Hans Lippershey. In 1608, he applied patent for an instrument ‘to see afar off’. According to a legend, Lippershey was given the idea of ​​developing a telescope by two of his children. One day, when these were playing in their father’s eyewear shop, they would have discovered that they could see the local church tower much magnified if they looked through a concave lens close to their eye through a convex lens a little further. However, this story dates from the eighteenth century and is therefore apocryphal.…

The seamstress Betsy Ross has a special place in American history. According to tradition, this American sewed the very first flag of the United States. It is not clear whether Betsy Ross, who was born on January 1, 1752, actually sewed the flag. Hard evidence is lacking. The American is in any case immortalized in a famous painting by Edward Percy Moran (see above). It shows Betsy Ross, along with two of her children, presenting the flag to George Washington , Commander in Chief of the Colonies in the American Revolutionary War and the first President of the United States.…

From Camp Westerbork in the dutch province Drenthe War more than 100,000 Jews living in the Netherlands Jews and 245 Roma were during the Second World deported by train to concentration and extermination camps in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. Today, a memorial center can be found near the former camp site. The history of Camp Westerbork in a nutshell.

The pilot Blanche Scott (also known as Betty Scott) occupies a special place in American aviation history, because they probably first American woman made a solo flight in an airplane. The American born in Rochester (New York) in 1884 was adventurous. For example, she became fascinated by cars at a young age. After her father, a successful businessman, bought a car, Blanche decided to take regular trips. In 1910 she did something special. The American then drove a car from the west coast to the east coast, as the second woman ever. During this adventurous trip, she saw a Wright…

The perfume with her name is still very popular: Gloria Vanderbilt. This descendant of the immensely wealthy American Vanderbilt family, also made a name for himself as a designer and television personality. She was the mother of author and news anchor Anderson Cooper. Gloria Vanderbilt was born on February 20, 1924, the only child of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt and his second wife Gloria Morgan. Her father died when she was only fifteen months old. She and her half-sister Cathleen Vanderbilt subsequently received a benefit from a $5 million fund. However, this money was managed by Gloria’s mother who led a…

Karl Landsteiner made an important discovery in 1901 when he examined blood. He mixed blood to see how that blood reacted. Landsteiner noticed that there were different reactions. For example, in some cases — but by no means all — the red blood cells clotted once they were mixed with blood. The scientist eventually managed to distinguish three different blood groups: A, B and C. The latter blood group was later renamed O and an assistant later discovered a fourth blood group: AB. The discovery was very important and has already saved many lives. The discovery of different blood groups…

On April 2, 1845, French physicists Léon Foucault and Hippolyte Fizeau took the first photograph of the sun. They used a relatively new technique, that of the daguerreotype. This technique was developed in 1837 by the French inventor Louis Daguerre . In 1839 he took the first photo of the moon. However, this photo has not survived because the inventor’s laboratory was destroyed by fire shortly afterwards. The very first moon photo was also lost. The very first photo of the sun still exists. This was taken on the second of April of the year 1845 with a shutter speed…

On June 4, 1937, the American supermarket owner Sylvan Goldman (1898-1984) introduced the shopping cart. A lucrative invention that is still indispensable in the supermarket. Sylvan Goldman and his brother founded the Humpty Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma City in 1930 . The entrepreneur noticed that his customers sometimes struggled to take everything they needed with them and that the carriers were regularly overcrowded. In 1937 Goldman therefore thought of making a cart that would allow customers to walk through his store. In the first design for this shopping cart, the supermarket owner was inspired by a folding chair in…