Villa di Pratolino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Nightly. Pratolino, the lower half of the garden, by Giusto Utens, 1599 (Museo Topografico, Florence). The Villa di Pratolino was a Renaissance patrician villa in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. It was mostly demolished in 1820: its remains are now part of Villa Demidoff, 12 km north of Florence, reached from the main road to Bologna. History[edit] The villa was built by the solitary Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany in part to please his Venetian mistress, the celebrated Bianca Capello. The designer of villa and gardens was his court architect- designer- mechanician- engineer Bernardo Buontalenti, who completed it in a single campaign that lasted from 1569 to 1581; it was finished enough to provide the setting for Francesco's public wedding to Bianca Cappello in 1579. In its time it was a splendid example of the Mannerist garden.
Francesco had assembled most of the property, which was not a hereditary Medici possession, by September 1568,[1] and construction began the following spring. Chollima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Nightly. A Chollima (also Qianlima or Senrima, literally "thousand-mile horse"), is a mythical winged horse which originates from the Chinese classics and is commonly portrayed in East Asian cultures.
This winged horse is said to be too swift and elegant to be mounted (by any mortal man). China[edit] Japan[edit] Keitoku Senrima (Kim Ge-Dok), a professional middleweight boxer in Japan, uses the stage name "Senrima" (the Japanese form of Qianlima/Chollima) to reference North Korea's Chollima campaigns and thereby express his Zainichi Korean heritage.[3] North Korea[edit] Several statues of Chollima are found in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. After the Korean War, the country required rebuilding to function again.
Several statues are found of this creature in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. See also[edit] cf. References[edit] "North Korea's Winged Horse 'Chollima Statue'" The People's Korea. 2008. Jump up ^ Spring, Madeline K. (1988). Ophiocordyceps sinensis. Ophiocordyceps sinensis is a fungus that parasitizes larvae of ghost moths and produces a fruiting body valued as an herbal remedy. The fungus germinates in the living larva, kills and mummifies it, and then the stalk-like fruiting body emerges from the corpse. It is known in English colloquially as caterpillar fungus, or by its more prominent foreign names (see below): yartsa gunbu or yatsa gunbu (Tibetan), or Dōng chóng xià cǎo (Chinese: 冬虫夏草; literally "winter worm, summer grass"). Of the various entomopathogenic fungi, Ophiocordyceps sinensis is one that has been used for at least 2000 years[2] to treat many diseases related to lungs, kidney, and also used as a natural Viagra.
Taxonomic History/ Systematics[edit] Caterpillars with emerging Ophiocordyceps sinensis Morphological Features[edit] Important developments in Classification[edit] Common Names[edit] Strangely, sometimes in Chinese English language texts Cordyceps sinensis is referred to as aweto [Hill H. Ecology[edit] Asian Ancestors Had Sex with Mysterious Human Cousins | Early Human Interbreeding | Genetics of Archaic Human Populations | Neanderthals & Denisovans. Neanderthals weren't the only ancient cousins that humans frequently mated with, according to a new study that finds that East Asian populations share genes with a mysterious archaic hominin species that lived in Siberia 40,000 years ago. This group, the Denisovans, is known only by a few bone fragments: A finger bone, a tooth and possibly a toe bone, which is still undergoing analysis.
The Denisovans likely split off from the Neanderthal branch of the hominin family tree about 300,000 years ago, but little else is known about their appearance, behavior or dress. But just as researchers have learned that ancient humans and Neanderthals mated, they've also found genetic echoes of the Denisovans in modern residents of Pacific islands, including New Guinea and the Philippines. The new research expands the Denisovan genetic influence, uncovering Denisovan genes in modern East Asian populations. "We are actually finding gene flow in Southeast Asia," Jakobsson told LiveScience.
Bizarre world | Have Russians found a dead sea monster - with pictures | This is fascinating, a dead thing on the beach with fur and teeth. Sometimes rotting animal corpses can look really different from the living one, but even still the pointy mouth is strange This creature was found by Russian soldiers on Sakhalin shoreline. Sakhalin area is situated near to Japan, its the most eastern part of Russia, almost 5000 miles to East from Moscow (Russia is huge). People don't know who is it. It has a skin with hair or fur. The initial description mentioned that the carcass was nearly 7 meters long, approximately 21 feet. More pics here.