Themysteriousworld is where you can explore unknown and most interesting facts about living planet, universe and lifestyle of people. We tried our best to cover all possible information about a particular subject within the posts on our site online. Here are some top unmissable festivals in the world.
Rio Carnival, Brazil
It is a five-day festival which takes place forty days before Easter. Rio de Janeiro has earned its title as the Carnival capital of the world with its famous samba dancing, colorful eye-catching costumes and live music.
Holi Festival, India
Holi is a Hindu spring festival, also known as the "festival of colors". It is a sign of the victory of good over evil, the end of winter, and the arrival of spring. Starting with a nighttime bonfire where people gather, sing and dance, Holi is celebrated the next day by people throwing colored powder and water at each other.
St. Patrick's Day, Ireland
Held on March 17 every year, it is a celebration to mark the death of Ireland's patron saint (守护神) Saint Patrick. Since 1996, an entire festival of parades, fireworks as well as food and drinks has surrounded the celebration. Enjoy traditional song and dance, watch musical street theater shows and get decorated in all green as you celebrate Irish heritage and culture.
Burning Man Festival, United States
As a week-long event at the end of August in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, it attracts tens of thousands of people from all over the world each year. Tickets to Burning Man are not cheap. But once you're there, you will surely have an unforgettable experience. The main event is burning a giant wooden statue on Saturday night, followed by a big dance party that lasts all night long.
We see a woman swimming at night in a dark sea. Suddenly, she is pulled underwater. She surfaces, cries in fear, then disappears forever. This is the opening scene from the 1975film Jaws, showing a shark attack. It was a great success, attracting huge audiences and winning many awards. It also strengthened people's long-held idea of the great white shark.
People have always been scared of sharks, but Jaws made things worse. Many people who saw the film started to believe that sharks were dangerous animals that ate humans. Some started fishing for sharks, killing as many as they could. At that time, nobody cared if sharks were killed, or how many were killed.
After 1975, the number of large sharks fell quickly. This was not only due to fear of sharks, but also finning. Finning is a type of fishing where sharks are caught and their fins(鳍) cut off to be used in shark fin soup. Finning kills millions of sharks a year.
Finning would have an unexpected effect upon Peter Benchley, the man who wrote the book the film Jaws was based on. In 1980, Benchley came across an awful sight in an area where fishermen were finning, leaving the sea floor covered with dead sharks. Benchley saw sharks being killed and this caused a deep change in him. He came to see people as a danger to sharks, rather than the other way round. From that day on, he fought to protect sharks. He admitted that his book was wrong about sharks' behavior. "Sharks don't target humans, " he said.
Fortunately, not everyone who watched the film Jaws became afraid of sharks — some became interested in understanding them. Today, as we learn more about sharks, more people than ever want to protect them from extinction.
There is a saying about the south-western Chinese province of Guizhou: "Not three feet of flat land, not three days without rain, not a family with three silver coins. " But, with the help of a spicy sauce, Tao Huabi, also known as "China's hottest woman", has well and truly opposed this rule.
Born in 1947, the eighth daughter of a poor family in a village of mountainous Guizhou, Tao did not go to school and did not learn to read or write. She spent her childhood hungry, and survived the Great Chinese Famine by eating plant roots, according to a biography on Weibo. When her husband died, she moved to the city of Guiyang and started selling noodles with a sauce that she made herself, She eventually opened the charmingly named Economical Restaurant in the 1990s. When a new highway brought truck drivers to Guiyang, she gave them free jars of the sauce and they spread the word. In 1996, she set a factory up in a house in Guiyang, and a year later Lao Gan Ma Special Flavour Foodstuffs Company was born.
Miranda Brown, professor of Chinese studies at the University of Michigan, who is writing a book on the history of Chinese food, says that in China, Lao Gan Ma's popularity is mainly because her products are natural. Chinese consumers tend to want foods that perfectly mix regional flavors and use ingredients grown from the soil of those regions. And today Lao Gan Ma is also increasingly popular overseas, especially in the US.
According to its website, the company produces 1. 3 million bottles daily, helping the historically poor Guizhou achieve 10.5% growth—the second fastest of every Chinese province that year, and ahead of the national rate of 6. 7%.
As for the godmother herself, an article in Yicai Global describes her as the Queen of a "red kingdom" of chili fields.
A new research led by University of Pittsburgh psychologists shows that older adults may be able to prevent declines (衰退) in a certain kind of memory by sticking to regular exercise.
From the study, exercising about three times a week for at least four months is how much people need to obtain the benefits in episodic memory. Episodic memory, which is supported by a part of the brain that's known to benefit from exercise, is the kind that deals with events that happened to you in the past. It's also one of the first to decline with age.
Exercise that gets the heart pumping has shown promise in increasing brain health, and experiments in mice show that it improves memory — but studies looking at the same link in humans have come out mixed.
During the research, the team read 1, 279 studies carefully, eventually narrowing them down to just 36 that met specific criteria (标准). Then they used specialized software and no small number of Excel spreadsheets to transform the data into a form where the different studies could be directly compared. That work paid off when they found that pooling together those 36 studies was enough to show that for older adults, exercise can indeed benefit their memory.
Past analyses looking at connections between exercise and memory didn't find one, but the team took several extra steps to give them the best chance of finding a link if one did exist. They limited their search to particular groups and age ranges as well as a specific kind of strict experimental setup. Another key was focusing specifically on episodic memory.
With that much larger pool of participants, the team was able to show a link between exercise and episodic memory. The team also found the greatest effects of exercise in those who hadn't yet experienced any cognitive (认知的) decline.
If you've got a lot of information coming at you, or you need to pick up a new skill in a short time, no worries. To help you do it, we've put together a list of things you can do to improve your ability to learn quickly and effectively.
The right mindset can help you learn more effectively. Try to remind yourself that you're learning something to improve your knowledge and skills. Think about all of the benefits that come with it. Avoid worst-case thinking and focus on the possible positive outcomes (结果). It can make a huge difference.
Test yourself as often as you can.
It's a great way to figure out what you need to learn. Go through the information you're trying to learn and ask yourself questions about the material. If you answer correctly, great! If you have access to practice tests, use them to challenge your memory. The more you test yourself, the more confident you' ll be that you know the information.
Practice a task in different ways to learn more quickly.
Changing the way you practice can help you improve. If you're trying to learn a task or skill, practice is super important and one of the most effective ways to get better. Instead, try mixing it up and practicing a different way each time, which can help your mind strengthen your memories, making you learn more quickly.
Exercise regularly.
It'll improve both your health and your memory. Studies show that regular periods of exercise can significantly improve your memory. Try to get at least 30 minutes each day. Use exercise as a healthy way to take a break from your studies, which will also actually help with your recall. Try out a group fitness class, go for a run or bike ride, or lift some weights.
A. Use mental images to help remember things.
B. Keep a positive attitude when you're learning.
C. If not, find the right answer and try to remember it.
D. But don't just practice the same way over and over.
E. Do anything that you feel comfortable doing — just get active!
F. If you test yourself regularly, you will remember what you' re learning better.
G. The good news is that you can use some strategies to improve your learning ability.
Lucky Candy grocery store (杂货店) held a challenge game for its customers in the neighborhood. The 1 is simple: answer a math question — say, what's 8×8+50? — and you'll get five seconds to take as much as you can from the store, all for 2 .
For Ahmed Alwan, 23, joy is as important as breakfast, but his regular customers sometimes 3 for both. So he came up with a clever way to 4 his customers' days. "I've grown up in the neighborhood, " he says. "I know most of them don't have much money, and sometimes they need 5 . "
Lucky Candy is located on a busy street in the Bronx, known as a food 6 , where people are badly in need of affordable, healthy food. Many residents depend on neighborhood shops for their daily 7 .
When kids get an answer right, one of two things8 happens. Some kids rushed for the candy and who could blame them. Others take things like rice and potatoes, clearly thinking of their 9 at home.
"The store is doing something 10 to many, " a customer told Inside Edition. "Many people here don't even have anything. A chance to get free stuff like this means a lot. "
Alwan 11 this challenge game with his own monthly pay. And his boss, also his father Aobad, doesn't 12 offering help, too. As an immigrant (移民), Aobad knows that in one of the 13 and most competitive places in the U. S. , a little help goes a(n) 14 way.
"This greatly changed our community, " says Alwan. "They're showing so much love and care—they're 15 at the store for a chance to play. No pushing or shouting. "
Each country in the world has its own traditional clothes, which show the (country) unique aesthetics (美学), philosophy and social values.
In China, the Hanfu, Zhongshan suit, Tang suit, and cheongsam (旗袍) are the four most distinctive types of traditional Chinese clothing, of which Hanfu is the(old). Hanfu (date) back to the time of Emperor Huang Leizu made cloth with silk. It was constantly improved throughout several dynasties.
Adopted and strongly (promote) by the ruling class, the Hanfu became the national clothing of the Han ethnic people in the Han Dynasty. Various ornaments (装饰品) (use) to decorate their Hanfu. The more decorations they had, the higher social status they had. Over the years, it has been changing (satisfy) people's needs in ChinA.
It also had extremely far-reaching influence on neighboring — Asian countries, such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Nowadays, the Hanfu is seldom worn by people except special occasions, such as festivals and wedding (ceremony), or by young girls who want to show off or take photos.
One summer afternoon, when I was about eight years of age, I was looking at a beautiful rainbow that, bending from the sky, seemed to be losing itself in a thick wood about a quarter of a mile distant.
"Do you know, Gracie, " said my brother, who was just recovering from a severe illness, weak and tired, "that if you should go to the end of the rainbow, you would find there precious treasures?"
"Is it truly so?" I asked.
"Truly so, " answered my brother, with a smile but a very serious face.
Now, I was a simple-hearted child who believed everything that was told to me; so, without another word, I rushed out toward the wood. My brother called after me as loudly as he was able to, but I did not take any notice of him.
I cared nothing for the wet grass, on and on I ran. I was so sure that I knew just where that rainbow ended. But when I reached the cedars (雪松林), the end of the rainbow was not there!
Abruptly I saw it shining down among the trees a little farther off; so on and on I struggled, through the thick bushes, till I came within the sound of a stream. I reached the bank of the stream, and I could see it a little way off on the other side. I crossed the stream on a fallen tree, and still ran on, though my muscles were aching and my knees shaking.
Suddenly I met in my way a large porcupine (豪猪). I ran away from him as fast as my tired feet would carry me. In my flight and hurry I forgot to keep my eye on the rainbow, and when, at last, I remembered and looked for it, it was nowhere in sight!
When I saw that it was indeed gone, I burst into tears, for I had lost all my treasures, and had nothing but muddy feet and a wet and torn dress. So I set out for home.
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