Ya Te Veo – Der fleischfressende Baum

In mittelamerikanischen Überlieferungen taucht immer wieder der „Ya Te Veo“ (span. „Ich sehe dich“) auf – ein Baum, der seine Opfer mit rauem Flüstern in Versuchung führt. Wer nachts nahe genug kommt, hört die Worte, erst verlockend, dann bedrohlich. Wer stehen bleibt, wird angeblich von mächtigen Zweigen umschlungen und getötet.

Auf den Bild sieht man die Darstellung eines Mannes, der von einem Yateveo verzehrt wird, einem fleischfressenden Baum, der sowohl in Afrika als auch in Mittelamerika angeblich vorkamm, aus Sea and Land von JW Buel (1887).

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Nordamerikas Giganten - Die Mammutbäume 🌲

Die Mammutbäume Nordamerikas zählen zu den höchsten und ältesten Bäume der Erde. Einst bedeckten sie weite Teile Kaliforniens, doch im Zuge des großen Goldrausches fielen tausende dieser Baumriesen der rücksichtslosen Abholzung zum Opfer. Heute überleben nur noch vereinzelte Bestände, die in Nationalparks unter strengem Naturschutz stehen, um dieses einzigartige Erbe der Urwälder zu bewahren.

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🇬🇧 The Viking Longhouses

Viking longhouses were elongated rectangular structures where entire families lived, worked and slept. These houses, often built on hills and facing downwards, could house up to 50 people, including their slaves (a slave is called a "Træl" in Danish) and animals.

The building materials included wood, stone and peat, and the walls could be made of adobe or wooden planks, with thatched roofs. A longhouse was an average of 30 meters long and 8 meters wide in the center.

In the Viking Age, houses were built with oak wood. The longhouse had curved walls that made the roof look like an upturned boat. The walls were made of clay or wooden planks. The roof was supported by large posts dug into the ground. The walls and roof were also supported by poles from the outside.

If one entered one of these Viking houses, he was greeted with the smell of burning wood and roasted pork. In the center of these houses there was a long fireplace that the family used for cooking.

Along the wall of the house there were planks that were used as beds and also as benches to sit on during the day. In general, people who lived here stayed in the western part of the house, while animals and slaves did so in the eastern part.

The interior walls were joined by a wooden armor, an architectural new method in the Viking Age. The use of trusses allowed to have a wider open space, without having to place too many posts in the middle of the room to support the roof. The lattice also gave the walls their curved shape, since part of the weight of the roof rested on some of the posts that supported it.

Longhouses were not easy to build, they were time-consuming and labor-intensive. It took a long time to gather all the wood and do the necessary carpentry work before it could be used to build the house. In addition, the wood had to be of high quality to last for many years.

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🇬🇧 The Lingotto, the Giant Ring-shaped Rooftop Test Track with Parabolic Curves that Fiat Built in 1927

The Lingotto was the flagship of FIAT factories. Named after the Lingotto de Moncalieri family, who lent their name to a humble farmhouse that has become an industrial icon, the site is technically located in Nizza Mille Fonti, Turin. It rose from the ashes of the Counts Robilant's villa, which had its own colorful history (partisan bastion, People's House) before Giovanni Agnelli turned it into a temple of automobile production.

Opened in 1923, Lingotto was at the forefront until 1940, when production was moved to the largest and brightest plant in Mirafiori. In 1927 Fiat built a rooftop test track, shaped like a giant ring with parabolic curves so that cars could reach impressive speeds of up to 90 km/h, in an era when most cars could barely reach 70. Even Le Corbusier couldn't resist its appeal, calling it "one of the most impressive shows the industry has ever offered."

Gracias Stephy Sowas

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