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http://www.todayszaman.com/news-257316-bomb-threat-before-turkish-presidents-speech-gul-vows-no-compromise.html Ok, I was in that auditorium. And not only that I didn't have the chance to hear the speech, above all the checkroom STILL HAS MY JACKET!!! :annoyed: PS: I can't be seen on this...

Ok here's a small fun thing: Collect all the interesting stuff you can find about the place you are coming from or have spend your childhood in! Don't care if it's just a tiny village or some allegedly uninteresting suburb of a bigger city. Any myths, anecdotes or other interesting stories...

How important are national/ethnic looks to you? Use the poll above and please comment where appropriate!

I've just used this 'Anthropometric Calculator' for males (there is another one for females, too), to see which country I mostly fit in to from my facial structures: http://dienekes.awardspace.com/calc/anthro/ My stunning result was: Greek! :smile: With Bulgarian coming in second! lol Wow...

Especially when I look at older maps (pre WWII), I notice that some countries are repeatedly drawn in the same colours. For instance Great Britain and it's possessions in pink, Prussia or Germany in blue, Russia in green, Italy in orange etc... Does anyone know if there is a reason behind this...

The way we perceive our environment, in combination with beliefs, does not only reflect what we try to define as truth. It also shows how we interact with other people in life, how we cope with everyday problems, and also how it contributes to our personality and shapes the mind, how it...

This is a map frequently found on German Wikipedia. It tries to devide Europe into six sub-regions, namely Western Europe, Southern Europe, South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe and Central Europe. Please note that cultural borders don't necessarily fit with national borders. One...

SOURCE: http://www.livescience.com/culture/neanderthal-modern-humans-brains-101108.html I wonder how Neanderthals perceived their environment. Just a minor thought of mine, people with dyslexia or dyscalculia also suffer from a wider perceptional dysfunction. Not that I want to compare...

Hey there, recently there have already been lots of discussions in this forum about what makes a certain culture superior or inferior to others, what has history shown and what are the reasons for it. Everyone came up with his own explanation, and in the end all explanations differed widely...