From family heirlooms to antiques shops to museums, many Americans share an obsession of the extremely old. This includes man-made artifacts such as a 130,000-year old piece of jewelry and natural relics such as the fossilized remains of a Nyasasaurus found in Africa believed to be the oldest dinosaur fossil on Earth.
24/7 Wall St. recently brought you 25 examples of the oldest known artifacts in a given category, such as wine bottles, maps, and bridges. Now, we’ve added 25 new items. The list now offers a glimpse at 50 of the oldest things in the world. We compiled a diverse list, drawing from modern invention such as automobiles to the oldest known star, which predates our own planet by billions of years. While history books can remain abstract, these relics give us a tangible peek into another time. The early cave paintings, like the 40,000-year-old ones in El Castillo, Spain, lack some of the later-developed perspective techniques and drawing tools. Thousands of years later, we see the earliest example of panel paintings, which are the precursor to classic work from painters like Picasso and Van Gogh. In other cases, mankind’s first attempts at art, photography, architecture, and music can be either beautiful in their simplicity or impressive in in their ingenuity. The earliest known photograph, Nicéphore Niépce’s “View from the Window at Le Gras,” isn’t a beautiful landscape or a poignant look at a subject. But capturing the first image paved the way for entirely new ways for people to express themselves. Of course, many of the oldest items on earth do not invite any artistic analysis because they were either around long before humanity was around or because they are naturally created. This includes the oldest tree, which is over 5,000 years old, and the oldest known rock, which is slightly older than that — by about 230 million years. Read more: www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/smart-living/50-of-the-oldest-things-on-earth/ss-BBJXkwq?li=BBnb7Kz#image=1
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When you’re married with kids and you have a thriving career, the first thing that slips away in your daily life is “you time.” The second thing? “You and him” time.
The good news: it doesn’t take much to get the latter back on track. If you believe the top relationship experts (and you should!), it’s the little stuff you do on a day-to-day basis that can really mean the difference between a happy marriage and a hard marriage. So try these small, totally doable actions, and you’ll find that they have maximum impact on your collective happiness. Read more: www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/29-ways-to-be-a-better-wife-right-now/ss-AAsX1nl?li=BBnbcA0&ocid=mailsignout#image=1 Everyone knows that there are men idiots out there like HIMYM’s Barney Stinson who give women backhanded compliments with the explicit intention of chipping away at their self-esteem to make it easier to get them into bed. You are not one of them. But perhaps you are the kind of man who wants to give a woman a compliment but is worried that she’ll get offended and isn’t really sure what is or isn’t appropriate to say anymore. Or maybe you want to be better at communicating with women but don’t know how. Or maybe you’ve grown up in a chauvinistic culture that systematically demeans women and you’ve heard men say all of the things on this list and never thought about what their implications are or how a woman might infer them.
We’re not here to point fingers or lay blame. If you’re reading this article, that means you want to be better, which is awesome. So here’s a list of things that women—especially the ones who would likely identify as feminists—are sick and tired of hearing. And if you want more advice on how to be a better man in today’s society, here’s why you should be more like David Schwimmer. Read more: www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/family-relationships/the-17-worst-things-a-man-can-say-to-a-woman/ss-BBGjyVP?li=BBnb7Kz Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. More Americans die of drug overdoses than in car accidents, which are also frequently the result of substance abuse -- nearly half of fatal car accidents involve alcohol or other substances. Read more: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/25-most-dangerous-drugs/ss-BBHPPXW?li=BBnb7Kz
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