The Legacy Light of SkyBeam, powered by 85 million candela lamps, is an integral part of the Space Needle since New Year’s Eve of 1999.
Powered in 1999 to greet the new Millennium, it honors local and national holidays and special occasions ever since.It was lit for 11 consecutive days after the 9/11 attack in memory of the fallen.
The legendary founders of the first temple were Amazons.
The sacred site appeared in Ephesus much earlier than the temple itself. First inhabitants of the city were aboriginal people called Leleges and Lydians.
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey became a secular republic. Its first president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ordered in 1934 that the temple serving more than 916 years to Christians and 481 years to Muslims, be turned into a museum.
In 2020, an administrative court in Turkey annulled the 1934 decree converting Hagia Sophia into a m ...
The first Great Wall is said to have been built by Emperor Qin Shi Huang in the 3rd century BC.
At the time, it constituted defensive ramparts made of compacted earth. They were meant to separate the empire from neighboring tribes and emphasize the ruler's power.
The city was discovered by Western civilization in 1812 thanks to the Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt.
Arab and Western scholars have identified more than 800 historic sites in the area of Petra. Most of them have been carved into the red walls of the bluffs.
