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Magellans last battle, island of Mactan, 1521. Painting by Gregory Manchess Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519 leading a Spanish armada of five vessels. On 16 March 1521, Magellan sighted the islands of Philippines becoming the first European to reach the archipelago. This was despite the fact that Magellan himself was Portuguese. Magellan landed on the island of Homonhon and befriended the chieftains of Limasawa. Humabon acquired the Christian name Carlos, in honor of King Charles of Spain....

The people announcing this thanked us for showing up at such an ungodly hour. I grinned and arrived, as I usually do, at 8:55ish. Im regularly the first Lifehacker staffer in the office. Partly because it looks good, but mostly because I am lazy and self-indulgent. Arriving at 9 isnt exactly crack-of-dawn morning-person material. The worst part of your morning becomes merely mediocre. You have no one to disappoint or impress but yourself....

The caves are now one of the main attraction of this area. A cave in Beit Guvrin. Some of the famouscaves at Beit Guvrinare. Photo credit:Suprun Vitaly/Shutterstock.com The Columbarium Cave A columbarium is a place to raise doves. The word comes from the Latin colomba, which means dove. The walls of this cave feature over 2,000 niches. The raising of doves was very common in the Judean lowlands during the Hellenistic period....

Wouldnt it be great to wake up and not dread the day? Its possible, with a little planning. Heres how to have the perfect morning. So what if this lets you meditate for 20 minutes? On the other hand, setting the alarm too late means you have to rush out of bed. So, be realistic and work backward to find what time youmustbe out of bed. This time should account generously for the mornings necessary activities, but no more....

This is one hell of a How I Work. And he has a hack for his morning shower that frankly sounds impossible. Hes everything we look for in a How I Work guest. I make a run at carry as little as possible and I never throw anything away. I went to college wanting to learn everything. And I did for a while. I picked up seven degrees from MIT and Stanford, but finally settled on the field of behavioral economics....

What is the most effective psychological trick you use?asks redditor PM_ME_UR_PUPPYDOGS. In a thread thats still going strong, people are answering. Here are our favorites so far. I have a lot of great clients, unfortunately with a few shitty managers from their side. They usually go with the mantra of If its not my idea, its not a good idea. I end up (sometimes) telling them about something Google, Tesla, Amazon, Samsung, etc....

The portraits always depicted the subject from mid-chest level. The head would be slightly turned towards the viewer and big soulful eyes gazing straight back. The artistic style has been described as Greco-Roman. Although not many paintings from this era have survived, scholars know what they looked like fromliterary descriptions. Mummy portraits were first dug up from a graveyard in 1887 by British archaeologist Flinders Petrie. Petrie was excavating at the pyramid at Hawara in the hopes of finding tombs from the third millennium BC....

Oscar season is officially upon us, with films likeBlack Panther and A Star Is Bornnow up for the holy grail of awards representing the big screen. The 2019 Oscars also mark the first time a movie released by a streaming service like Netflix has been nominated for best picture; NetflixsRomais up for 10 awards, tying withThe Favouritefor themost nominationsthis seasons. While some films have just made their way to theaters, weve put together the ultimate streaming list, which may include a necessary subscription or one-time rental purchase, so you’re able to go ahead and watch some of the years best flicks from your living room:...

They range in size from fraction of an inch to several inches in diameter. They are called moqui marbles. The word moqui comes from the Hopi Tribe, and it means the dead in the Hopi language. Moqui marbles in southern Utah. Geologists call then concretion. Flakes of iron-rich minerals blew in from the surrounding and became buried along with the quartz sand. Eons later, the iron fused with the grain sands giving the Navajo Sandstone its amazing colors and patterns....

But unlike many miniature models, theirs is made of wool. But ours snowballed, shetold BBC. Aitcheson and her group used a number of techniques to create the different textures. Crochet is different from knitting, sheexplained. You only use one needle for crochet and two for knitting. “Its different stitches called garter, stocking and rib. The trees were just wool wound round them.

Located in the province of Catania, in the Italian island of Sicily, is the town of Grammichele. It is one of the few towns in the world to have the unique hexagonal layout. Grammichele was built by Carlo Maria Carafa Branciforte, the Prince of Roccella and Butera. Designed by Michele da Ferla, it was the first city in Europe with a hexagonal plan. Its layout was probably inspired byPalmanova, a fortified town built one hundred years earlier....

Did life happen mostly as planned or were there surprises? Does anything happen as planned? I grew up thinking Id be a graphic designer or illustrator. I wanted to be like Edward Gorey, writing and illustrating books but not necessarily for kids. I even went to grad school for classical drawing. I think it was a challenge to myself to talk more. I married a guy who is also in radio and an introvert....

Time to wind down, watch some videos, and prepare for your weekly dinner at TGI Fridays. Weve been watching a classic series of deadpan fake instructional videos,Infinite Solutions. These fakes were so good, theyfooled Gizmodoone Friday in 2007. The Infinite Solutions series would eventually be an obvious joke. My personal favorite is their video on finding the skeletons of tiny dinosaurs, above. Its highbrow prop comedy, with several layers of joke building on the premise....