credit: celebritiesvita.blogspot.com Genghis Khan's country is Mongolia . Today's Mongolia is an egg-shaped country on the world map. Its location is in Central Asia. Between China and Russia. Alaska is twice the size. Much of Mongolia is a grass-covered arid plateau. Simply put, relatively flat land on a mountain. Its western and south-western hills. The inaccessible Gobi Desert is located in the southern border region of China. Roughly less than 1 percent of the country's land is suitable for cultivation. If you go to Mongolia today, you will see that most of its areas are uninhabited. Somewhere, you can suddenly see the nomadic herdsmen living a very miserable life by grazing their animals. Dust storms, droughts, severe winters are the cause of their daily misery. In fact, the way they live today is no different from what their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. There was a time after that when this isolated and lonely Mongolia was the largest land empire in history. ...
Famous Salvador Dali: A Life in Conflict credit: pixabay It's a rare work of art that comes to represent the entire movement that birthed it: Monet's Water Lillies and Impressionism, for example, or Millais's Ophelia and the Pre-Raphaelites. In today’s case, nothing represents Surrealismquite like the image of a melting clock, and no artist better encapsulates the feel of surrealism more than Salvador Dali. If you know nothing about art -- if you grew up inside that compound from The Village and have never even seen pencil put to paper -- you know that melting clocks probably means things are about to get weird. One of the most referenced images in the modern canon, inspiring jokes in everything from The Simpsons to Looney Tunes, The Persistence of Memory is the brainchild of none other than our boy Salvador, the genre-defining multi-media artist best known for living a life that was almost as weird as the subjects he painted. Depending on the source, the melting clock rep...