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Located in Glamis, Scotland, people come to visit especially for folk museum opened here and three beautiful gardens. Glamis Castle is known as one of the most haunted castles in Britain. Castle is the historical place of Bowes-Lyon family, and was originally used as house hunting. In 1372, Robert II of Scotland gave the castle to Sir John Lyon. Four years later, Sir John married the king's daughter, Joanna, and was appointed Chamberlain of Scotland. Their grandson became Lord Glamis in 1445, the title of Earl of Strathmore "was created in 1606, and the title of Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorn, in 1677, and the family name became Bowes-Lyon in 1767. L-shaped castle was remodeled in the seventeenth century. It includes a lobby with a ceiling dated 1621, a family chapel built in 1688, a billiard room in the eighteenth century, where they are and what's left of the rich library, a lounge-century nineteenth century, where the family portraits, and royal apartments used by the Queen Mother and King George VI. Castle is famous as the childhood home of Queen Mother, born at Glamis, where he was born and his daughter, Princess Margaret, in 1930.

 

  Chapel family is haunted by a Grey Lady, who is said to be the spirit of Lady Janet Douglas, burned at the stake as witches, in Castle Hill, Edinburgh, in 1537, is accused of being planned to poison the king . It is possible that the charges have been staged for political reasons. A number of witnesses have seen fairly recent occurrence in the chapel. They say that sometimes appears above the clock tower. They say a woman's ghost haunts the land without language, and sometimes looks out from behind a window or running the castle park. A young black ghost of a servant who was treated cruelly, 200 years ago, haunts a stone bench, near the Queen's bedroom door.

 

  One of the most infamous ghosts is that of Earl Beard, also known as Alexander, Earl Crawford. It says it was a cruel and wicked man, probably because of his attitude against King James II.

They say his spirit wanders through the castle, and she is meant to participate in gambling, for eternity, the devil, in a secret room of the castle and people say they have heard people swearing there, and the sound of dice. Often in literature is confused by the second Earl of Glamis.

 

  Legend says that this castle is haunted because of an old curse brought upon the family of Sir John Lyon, who moved an old bowl or place in Forteviot, where he had to remain forever. Also, the castle is found in the play "Macbeth" by Shakespeare, and the murder of King Malcolm II was said to have taken place in one room. It is unlikely, because the castle dates from the fourteenth century, and the murder was done in the eleventh century.

Perhaps the most famous folk legend is a secret room somewhere inside the castle, a room that holds a terrible secret. At one time, each is said to have hung a towel on every window of the castle, but outside, you can see a window without the towel, suggesting the presence of hidden cameras.

 

  Secret room at home has a number of stories, the most popular is that it would imprison a monster. In 1821, it says that the first son of the 11th Earl was born with several birth defects. To hide this fact, said the child died, but he was locked in a secret room in the castle. Malformed boy survived, and after a while, was born a second son, who was told his brother that he is grown. In some stories, the boy grows and becomes strong, and live over 100 years. Secret hidden camera had to be passed to each heir, the celebration of 21 years. It tells of a worker who made a hole in a wall, accidentally, while working on modifications to the castle, and found a passage to the secret room. He was given a large sum of money to keep quiet and leave the country. In another legend, says that in the room are the bodies of men who were enemies of the family and who died of hunger.

As mentioned above, one of the most notorious figures in the history of the castle was Earl Beard, Lord Crawford, a cruel man. The most commonly heard story is that he lost his soul in a card game with the devil.

Among the high mountains, covered with forests, has hidden pearl of the Carpathians, the highest mountain in Ukraine “Goverla”.
Hundreds of tourists from all over Ukraine and abroad, according to ascend not forgive trails to the top of the mountain.
Lifting height, not afraid of extremists, it attracts more and more willing to climb to the top.
mountain height is 2061 meters above sea level
Its route can be started from the base Zaroslyak, to enter the territory of the reserve charge.
Territory groomed, there are souvenir shops, campsites, parking can be expanded tent or rent a room.
Climb a mountain, you have two routes:
The first, more convenient, though long 4.3 km, the second tyazheleya route with steep climbs, but shorter, only 3.7 km away.
Most of the tourists prefer to climb a short route, and down long.
No matter which route you choose, good experience and an amazing view of your software.

At the foot of the waterfall is located, its height is 80 meters.
The spectacle is a very beautiful, ideal for panorama photography.

I recommend to visit the lake Nesamovite, it can be reached from the ridge on the Montenegrin Hoverla (the red route).

Easter Island is believed to have been settled between 700 to 1200 CE, around the same time that settlers first arrived in Hawaii. The first Easter Island settlement is said to have been at Anakena, the landing point on the island that provides the most protection from rough maritime weather. Recent radiocarbon dating seems to contradict this theory however with multiple other Easter Island locations outdating Anakena by as much as hundreds of years.

The first people to settle Easter Island are believed to have been the Polynesians from the Marquesas and Gambier Islands. The language with the most similarity to that used on Easter Island is Mangarevan, the official language of Mangareva in the Gambier Islands, the official language of Mangareva in the Gambier Islands. It is believed that the initial community structure on the island focused around a high chief or ariki, who controlled nine smaller clans and the chiefs who led them. As legend has it, the grand chief was always the eldest descendent through first-born lines of the founder of the island – Hotu Matu’a.

Under the leadership of the ariki the Moai were constructed. In the belief system of those living on Easter Island, the dead and living were dependent upon each other. It was the dead that provided the living with all that they needed to live and in return, the living offered the dead with offerings that gave them a better place in the spirit world. Moai are generally situated along the coastlines of the island since this is where the settlements of Easter Island stood. These Moai were always built with their backs against the water (where the spirit world was located) and their faces turned towards the tribes which they oversaw.

The well structured society of Easter Island was thriving until the point that the ecosystem changed drastically. It is unsure as to what really led to this decline in the civilization but some hypothesize that deforestation played a significant role. On an island where the ecosystem was already very delicately balanced, the shift in ecology of the island led to a severe drop in the island’s population. When the European settlers arrived on Easter Island in 1722, the population had dropped to between 2,000 to 3,000 from the 15,000 it was 100 years earlier. This population drop is believed to have resulted directly from deforestation which resulted in less wood to build fishing vessels, which resulted in a lower food supply.

As if internal warfare had not been enough to devastate Easter Island, in the 1860’s Peruvian slave raiders struck. Abducting more than 1,500 men and women – at that time approximately half of the island’s population, the raiders took indiscriminately. The slave raids took enough of a toll on the island that eventually the Peruvians were forced to return some of those taken from the island. Unhappy about having to return their ‘bounty’, the Peruvians returned Easter Island inhabitants along with the smallpox virus. The epidemic that would follow decimated the Easter Island population. In the years following whalers would also introduce tuberculosis to the island and further reduce the island’s population. As natives began to die from these diseases, missionaries and ranchers would move in and buy up the land of the deceased islanders.

As the island was slowly bought up and settled both the overall population and the cultural background of the island were lost. French mariner, Jean-Baptiste Dutrou-Bornier, bought most of the land with the exception of the missionary settlements in Hanga Roa to use it for farming. As conflict began to take place between natives, Dutrou-Bornier and the missionaries, the population of the island plummeted to just 111 in 1871. Somehow over time the islanders built up their numbers, however, it was too late to preserve much of the culture’s heritage.

With numerous Moai statues on display around the world, researchers at some point had to move some of the statues from Easter Island. While moving these incredibly heavy statues was a feat for islanders, technology made it much easier to transport these ancient relics. In total, approximately 11 of the Moai have been taken from the island, 6 of these 11 were carved from basalt.

It was not only Moai taken from Easter Island that were resurrected, after the TADANO company volunteered a crane to Easter Island, a number of the statues were resurrected. By May of 1995, islanders had utilized the crane to stand 15 of the Moai statues which had fallen in Tongariki ahu. The statues were all placed back on the ahu and can be viewed now as they once were by the original islanders. The Ahu Tongariki restoration project was undertaken by Chilean archaeologist Claudio Cristino.