12 may 2015

Story Cubes

Are you bored? That's because you want, because with some simple dice you can get a wonderful time.

The game is simple, you must get special dice, that have different images and actions in each of their sides. Also you need some friends, and a lot of imagination! For starting, One of you must take a dice and throw it up. He must begin a history related with the image that he got. The next one must chose another dice, and do the same action, continuing with the history. When all people have thrown all the dices, you must check if they were listening, so chose a random person and make him tell you the story. 

This game that can seem artless at the beggining, will make you spent a lot of hours of enjoyment

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Abandoned Animals

27 abr 2015

Extreme animals

All people think that extreme animals are lions, crocodiles or sharks, but referring to nature, even a little ant can be mortal. Now we are going to talk about 3 curious animals that are in this ranking because of its pecuriality.


1. Giraffe: This animal is known of being the taller specie in the world, getting almost 6 metres tall! His neck is too long because some million of years ago all the savannah was plenty of hervibores that eat all the grass of the ground. Giraffes evolved to take the leaves of the trees due to the shortage of food. The skin, like many of the african animals, is decorated to camuflate on the yellow straw.

2. Fly: This name is gaven to a big group of species in the insect world. Perhaps, it's the most common insect in our lifes from the existance of the humanity. Commonly, flys live between 15-25 days. Their Litter are 'Grubs', Who are usually used to activities like fish. Basically, the use of these animals in nature is for delete corpses of any specie (including humans).
The problem with these animals is that they can transmit 'miasis', an infectation of our body by parasites. The last thing is that flyes were honnorated in some cultures like Egypt

3. Rattlesnakes: Also known as 'Crotalus', this peculiar type of snake is one of the most demanded in the world, due to his skin and his special tail. His venom can kill a child in less than 20 min. There's an antidote that in most of the cases it works perfectly.
But the thing that made this snake famous is the rattle that it has at the end of his body used to advert danger and that it's going to attack.


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21 mar 2015

Top 10 Inventions

Since the biggining of the 20th century we can find a lot of improvements and inventions, but im going to give my own list of the 5 best:

· Internet: In my opinion the most important. It can be used for sharing information, entertainment or even search news. Since 30 years ago, the 'net' have increased its number of internauts by 4.000.000.000 people, thats like a 60% of actually total world inhabitants.
· Computers: From its origins to now, they have been compacted 7 metres from each side, so thats a huge comparation referring, for example, to the first computer used by the nasa, that weigth more than 1 tone. Its graphics and procesator make us a easier way of life
· Airbag: This improvement was created by a normal men that suffer the crash of his car, and all his family died except him cause of the accident. He creatd this compact pill of air that notice where was a strong hit in the car.
· Microwaves: Now a days its common to have our food hot in 2 minutes, but 100 years ago, you would had to prepare a fire, then take the food and also try to not cook so much it. This simple but effective invention uses technology developed by Sovietic Russia and then first used by USA in this compact furniture
· Compact Memories: 3Million of songs in only 7mm2, thats normal in our time, but some years ago, 10 songs used a card of 10cm2, that's the improvement of compacticty, and also, micro chips, that let us wear on all our information without disturbing us

Finally, i must talk about Electricity, that amazing discover that makes our lifes easier.

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Graffitis

Talking about Art, we can difference 2 tyoes of outdoor art: Graffity, is an art that revels against the society, and it is usually made for disturbing and not for crate art. By the other way, Street Art comprends Style and a project of improve the streets, so thats good for our streets.

Talking about graffity, we can take a small group that have considered like art, that really represent what a graffity should be. Street Art is known because of its different styles, lke pop art. Also we can find Memorable artists, like Jean. Michel Basquiat 'SAMO' or Bonksy, wich have more than 400 draws between them 2. We can find different styles of letters, like bubble letters, Block or Wildstyle

Referring to places, we can find in the Route 66 some Street Art, or in the famous '34th Street Wall', who has increased its wide 3cm because of all the capes of paintworks.


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St. Patricks Day

St. Patricks Day is celebrated annualy on 17th of March, commemoring the death of St. Patricks, the patron of Ireland.

Some of the tipical symbols are:
· Shamrock: It's a kind of grass that its known around the world due to giving luck. It's composed by 3 leafs and a little stem
· Snakes: There aren't any snake o the island due to the separation of it from England before the glaciation, but the tradition says that it was St. Patrick who leet the island without snakes.
· Colour green: It's known around the world that ireland is the 'green country' because of its huge plains of grass. Every year on 17th March, a lot of landmarks of many cities become green for celebrate the festivity

· Celtic cross: It's true employment was for decore churches and other christian places, but the design tell us about the tipical irish sculptures and its way of ornament the figures. This cross is also famous in places like A Coruña, Asturias or part of France
· Leprechauns: This small and cute creatures come from the ancient mithology, and they have the theory of bringing with them a cauldrum with gold. The legend says that if you follow a rainbow and you find the end, you will see a Leprechaun that will give you all the gold

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St. Valentin's day

St. Valentin's day is know all around the world because it's the day of love, but only a few people know the true history of this day.

The history began in the Roman Empire in the III century, where there was a law that prohibit the soldiers of the army get married, for not get distracted. Valentin was a priest that thought soldiers could have married and work perfectly, so he began to celebrate hidden weddings. He married more than 1000 couples. When Claudio II (the Emperor) know about that, he decided to cut Valentin's head down, just the day of 14th of February of 270, so that's the reason of we celebrate this festivity on 14th.

Referring to the actual Festivity, the first postcard was sent by Esther A. Howland, where it was represented a small boy winged holding a bow, that came from the Roman mitology. He was Cupido, whose name comes from 'Cupiditas (Wish)'. Now a Days, St. Valentin is celebrated all around the world, but in different days, like, for example Egypt, where the festivity is on November 4th. It's estimated that 100Million of postcards are sent every year in all the world

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