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Angkor World’s Largest Pre-Industial City?

In Arts & Entertainment, Travel on July 16, 2009 at 12:39 pm

If you have visted the temple ruins at Angkor, would like to expand your understanding of history, or maybe you are just a Laura Kroft:  Tomb Raider fan, you will enjoy the new National Geographic TV Secrets of Angkor.   Archaeologist, with the help of aerial and satellite imagery, and braving landmines on foot, are finding a vast new city and waterworks system that surrounds the moated area that travelers typically see.  The discoveries are leading them to conclude that:

“Angkor was the world’s largest pre-industrial city, growing to an area of about 390 square miles.” 

“Covering an area larger than modern-day New York, ancient Angkor has been estimated to have had a population of 750,000 people at its height in the 12th or 13th century.”

 

Bayon Temple (Photo Credit © Anna Pflüger/ SPIEGEL TV Media)

Bayon Temple (Photo Credit © Anna Pflüger/ SPIEGEL TV Media)

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Denisa’s Eleventh

In Animal Kingdom on July 16, 2009 at 12:02 pm

Here is a very creative photo-shot from Photographer David Silverman (Getty Images).  A five-day-old baby giraffe stands by its mother, Denisa, in their compound at the Safari Park zoo on July 15, 2009 in Ramat Gan, Israel. The still unnamed female calf is twenty-year-old Denisa’s eleventh offspring, which zoo officials say is a world record for a giraffe in captivity.

Newborn Giraffe

Newborn Giraffe

 

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Where to Record Your Next Album?

In Arts & Entertainment, Sang Bleu, Travel on July 16, 2009 at 11:51 am

Looking for a place to record your next album?  Check out the 16,000 s.f. Villa Rockstar, one of the newer Eden Roc Estates at the Eden Roc Hotel in St. Barths, F.W.I.  It is entourage and studio ready, with your choice of cars already parked in the garage.  According to New York’s Black Book March 2009:

‘Might just be the most extravagant creative enclave in existence” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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