Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia

The Greek sculptor Phidias made the Statue of Zeus at Olympia approximately 432 BC and erected in the Temple of Zeus, located in Olympia Greece. Half of the width of the aisle of the temple built to house it was occupied by the 12 meters tall seated statue. The Zeus was made from ivory and gold-plated bronze. The sculpture was wreathed with shoots of olive worked in gold and seated on a magnificent throne of cedar wood, inlaid with ivory, gold, ebony and precious stones. In Zeus' right hand there was a small statue of crowned Nike, goddess of victory, and in his left hand, a scepter inlaid with gold, on which an eagle perched.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek god Apollo, erected in the city of Rhodes on the Greek island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos between 292 and 280 BC. It is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Before its destruction, the Colossus of Rhodes stood over 30 meters high, making it one of the tallest statues of the ancient world. An article published in 2008 by Ursula Vedder suggests that the Colossus was never in the port, but rather on a hill named Monte Smith, which overlooks the port area. The temple on top of Monte Smith has traditionally thought to have been devoted to Apollo.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are considered to be one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. They were built in the ancient city-state of Babylon, near present-day Al Hillah, Babil, in Iraq.In reference to Queen Semiramis they are sometime called The Hanging Gardens of Semiramis.The gardens were supposedly built by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC. He is reported to have constructed the gardens to please his homesick wife, Amytis of Media, who longed for the trees and fragrant plants of her homeland Persia. Sadly the Gardens were destroyed in about the second century BC by earthquakes.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

New York Mets

The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in Queens in New York City. The Mets are a member of the East Division of Major League Baseball's National League.One of baseball's first expansion teams in 1962, the Mets won the 1969 World Series. They have played in a total of four World Series, including a second dramatic win in 1986. The team's regular home uniforms were introduced for the 1997 season as alternate uniforms. They are white with blue piping along the seams and feature "Mets" written in blue across the front of the jersey in a cursive script similar to the team logo.

GeForce 9800 GX2

This new GPU replaces the GeForce 8800 Ultra as their most powerful Graphics Processing Unit. Last generations GeForce 8 Series has been NVIDIA's most successful GPU to date as gamers who invested in the high-end 8800 GTS and GTX graphics card have enjoyed well over a year of top-notch 3D performance and image quality to match.What makes the GeForce 9800 GX2 unique is that it features two GPUs working in tandem on a single graphics card. However, unlike the architecture of a dual-core processor, where one of the cores may be idle, the GPUs on the GeForce 9800 GX2 are fully utilized when they operate in SLI (Scalable Link Interface) or Multi-GPU mode. At the price of about 550USD and a memory amount of 1024MB it's quite the beast among graphic cards.

Friday, October 22, 2010

New York Yankees

The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's American League East Division. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles and moved to New York City in 1903, becoming known as the New York Highlanders before being officially renamed the "Yankees" in 1913. From 1923 to 2008, the Yankees' home ballpark was Yankee Stadium, one of the world's most famous sports venues. In 2009, they moved into a new stadium, also called "Yankee Stadium".