Words You've Never Heard of

• Callipygian

One who is callipygian is one who has a pleasant ass.

• Chasmophile

Somebody who adores alcoves and crevices.

• Chork

The demonstration of making the sound your shoes make when you're strolling in them and they're loaded with water.

• Crapulence

Effortlessly the most stunning equivalent word for "hungover," crapulence originates from the Latin word crapula, which just signifies "hungover." Another extraordinary term for headaches is "the Woofits."

• Empurple

To make something purple. It likely gets underused in light of the fact that there simply aren't numerous open doors for us to talk about the making purple of things, however we could without much of a stretch alter that by empurpling a greater amount of our lives.

• Feague

To put a live eel up a horse's butt. Bafflingly, this is here and there used to allude to attempting to lift somebody's spirits.

• Moaning cheese

This stunning word alludes to the Medieval conviction that a lady in labor could be improved to feel by giving her some cheddar. These days, it's just cheddar that is celebratory of a conception.

• Interrobang

This really does not allude to the exercises of an effective third date, but instead alludes to a particular accentuation stamp that is a blend of a question mark and an outcry mark

• Nibling

A catchall, non-sexual orientation particular term for nieces and nephews, much like "kin".

• Pilgarlik

Somebody who is uncovered. Evidently, in the sixteenth century, they thought bare men's heads looked like peeled garlic.

• Scurryfunge

The demonstration of quickly cleaning before a visitor arrives.

• Swullocking

Muggy climate.

• Throttlebottom

A deceptive open authority.

• Trumpery

Things that look pleasant, yet are really useless.

• Twirlblast

A tornado.

• Uglyography

Poor penmanship.

• Ultracrepidarian

One who gives their suppositions on things they don't think about. This is an exceptionally old word got from a Greek story. A shoemaker had drawn closer the well known Greek painter, Apelles of Kos, and brought up that he had drawn the shoe off-base.

• Widdershins

Counter-clockwise.

The Forgotten Lands Under The Sea

A great many years prior, the world was one major landmass. Over the long haul, the supercontinent of Pangaea separated into littler mainlands, which then likewise broke into littler landmasses. Today, we're all acquainted with the plan of the Earth's parts—in any event, regarding the terrains over the surface of the sea.

The Lion City 

China's Shicheng, "the Lion City," has been named the Atlantis of the East. In any case, not at all like Atlantis, Shicheng is totally genuine and stunningly wonderful. Situated in Zhejiang Province, the city was more than a thousand years of age when it was purposely overflowed in 1959 amid the development of the Xin'an River Hydropower Station. More than 300,000 occupants must be moved from the city, which is without further ado under Lake Qiandio.

The Lion City has been named a "period case" by archeologists, since the waters have impeccably saved a large number of its old structures, and in addition stone carvings from the Qing and Ming lines. Five doors lead into the Lion City, rather than the four ordinary of other Chinese urban areas; the dividers themselves go back to the 16th century.

Sundaland 

Another microcontinent right away submerged, Sundaland is situated in what is presently southeast Asia. It was the single biggest territory of area submerged after the last ice age, sinking around nineteen thousand years prior after frigid decrease created the ocean level to ascend by approx. 100 m.

At the point when Sundaland was still over the water, it was double the extent of India, extending from Burma to Borneo and including present-day Malaysia and Indonesia. Actually, Sundaland signed up all the islands of advanced southeast Asia into one extraordinary area, extending the distance to the Philippines.

Obviously, Sundaland has been connected to Plato's popular legend of Atlantis, in spite of the fact that it has additionally been connected to the just as fabulous landmass of Lemuria. One creator even claims that the Garden of Eden was really situated on Sundaland.

Myth: Chinese is a Single Language

Numerous individuals invest years learning outside dialects, a procedure that is troublesome yet in any case remunerating. Yet, there are some odd ideas out there about the dialects of the world.


A great many people expect that Chinese is a solitary, solid dialect talked by more than 1.3 billion individuals. Others may have the capacity to recognize Mandarin and Cantonese, because of the social impact of Hong Kong film. In reality, the Chinese government serves to propel this thought, distinguishing Mandarin as the standard dialect and everything else talked as simple vernaculars.

In actuality, on the other hand, there are many diverse dialects talked in China, which vary more from the standard Mandarin than distinctive European dialects do from each other. The biggest non-Mandarin tongue is Wu, talked in Shanghai and the areas of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, and Fujian. This vernacular is for the most part called Shanghainese, while etymologists call it Wu after the old kingdom of Wuyue. Different speakers of Chinese think of it as a delicate and streaming dialect, however are frequently put off by Shanghai people groups' refusal to communicate in Mandarin. Cantonese, talked in some parts of China, is a nasal dialect with long vowels and nine tones and is considered to have saved various elements from the Classical Chinese dialect. Tang line verse regularly rhymes when talked in Cantonese, however once in a while in Mandarin.

Different dialects still utilized by millions as a part of China incorporate Hokkien, Jin, Hunanese, Hakka, and Gan. In the mid 20th century, Shanghai scholarly people pushed for a solitary national dialect so as to encourage correspondence over the unlimited nation. This reverse discharges on them, as the boundless and generally simple Mandarin dialect was picked, which prompted the efficient restraint of every single other type of Chinese. Then again, these dialects are still talked by a great many individuals in China and via abroad Chinese groups far and wide.

Lost And Found

The thought of an invaluable fortune lost to humankind is so inalienably sentimental, its fueled four Indiana Jones films and about twelve Listverse articles. Nothing could be cooler for the majority of us than revealing a missing relic, regardless of how unimaginable that may be.Or is it? In the most recent couple of years alone, scholastics, history specialists, and customary Joes have sufficiently discovered lost fortunes to fill a whole gallery.

From time to time in mankind's history, something is rediscovered that could possibly change the world. One case is when researchers rediscovered the works of the Greeks and Romans, introducing the Renaissance. Another could be the disclosure of the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips. 

A gathering of antiquated bamboo pieces secured in Chinese characters, the slips contain a portion of the most punctual Chinese compositions ever uncovered. Alongside two comparable pulls going back to 1993, they appear to speak to a school of Eastern writing and science totally overlooked by the world. Maybe in particular, they originate before the first Qin ruler by almost a century. In 213 BC, the ruler requested all books to be blazed and researchers to be killed. The outcome was a terrific loss of information and society, as a great many basic writings went up in smoke. Quick forward to today, and we may be at last recovering some of them. 

As of now, investigation of the three original copy pulls has uncovered the soonest known form of the I Ching, new messages by Confucius, and a model variant of the Taoist Book of the Way, with significant contrasts from later versions. It's likewise revealed the most seasoned utilization of a decimal increase table ever. With its numerous fortunes just now beginning to advance into open awareness, its even been recommended we might soon see a wholesale revamping of Chinese social history. Not awful for a pack of mildew covered, old bamboo strips.

The Ancient Penon Woman

It's anything but difficult to expect we have human development basically made sense of. Be that as it may, new disclosures of human remains regularly challenge the experimental agreement. With each new disclosure, we take in more about ancient people and how they lived.


Penon Woman kicked the bucket around thirteen years prior, amid the last ice age, at the age of twenty six. Her skeleton was found on the edge of a titan ancient lake, now some piece of suburbia of Mexico City, and she was named after the little heel of area that would have extended into the old lake. The practically finish skeleton was found in 1959, when it was thought to be no more seasoned than five thousand years. Her actual age was just found in 2002, when an excavator from Liverpool's John Moores University sent later dating strategies. Nobody knows why the young lady passed on. Her bones are all around created and sound, hinting at no hunger.

Interestingly, Penon Woman's long and tight skull doesn't much take after cutting edge Native American skulls. Neither do various other early American fossil stays, including the celebrated Kennewick Man. At the time, Silvia Gonzalez proposed that Penon Woman and Kennewick Man were most likely individuals from a gathering that landed in the Americas by vessel from the Pacific, tossing uncertainty on the customary conviction that individuals initially touched base in the Americas by means of the Bering Strait area span. Another hypothesis asserts that Penon Woman and Kennewick Man may speak to a gathering of ahead of schedule Europeans who by one means or another crossed the Atlantic.


Yet, these hypotheses were tossed into uncertainty couple of years after the fact, when archeologists found an additional 13,000-year-old female fossil, known as Naia, in a Mexican hollow. Naia had the same uncommon facial structure as Kennewick Man and Penon Woman, yet her DNA indisputably connected her to Native Americans, proposing that the irregular skulls likely don't speak to an unmistakable ethnic gathering truth be told.

The Guy Who Proclaimed Himself as a God

Conceived in 356 BC, Hephaestion would grow up to be one of Alexander the Great's most trusted bodyguards and most adored companions. He would be recognized as Alexander's second-in-charge, regularly showing up alongside him all through his armed force's apparently ceaseless progression over the world.

He passed on in October 324 BC, subsequent to building up a fever and serious disease on the heels of an intoxicated night out on the town. Alexander's response was unbelievably immediate. He had the specialist who had neglected to spare his companion pierced on a stake, banned all music for a time of grieving, remove his hair (and the manes and tails of all his armed force's steeds), made penances, smoldered hallowed flames, and pronounced an extensive time of grieving. He additionally sent a formal solicitation to Siwa, asking that Hephaestion be deified as a deity.

The reaction was an odd one, and its long been discussed on regardless of whether it was a worthy one to Alexander. The prophet declined to make Hephaestion a divine being, however did license the official foundation of a legend faction to love him. He was a celestial legend, as opposed to a god.It's been recommended that the entire thing was something of a setup.

While Alexander's cozy association with Hephaestion isn't debated, its not sure regardless of whether he made the offer to idolize his companion for his companion's honor or to further his own particular offer for being announced a divine being. On the off chance that his companion was meriting a godhood, he unquestionably would have been, as well. Indeed, even Hephaestion being recompensed heavenly legend status appeared to maybe lay the foundation for Alexander's own particular case for holiness. Sadly, the data that we do have on the foundation of the perfect in Greece and the conventions for love are scrappy, best case scenario, so its all down to instructed theory toward the day's end.