Traveling: Stunning Facts

     I have already written about traveling (Euro-Trip) and don't want to stop on what I've already begun. The process of traveling itself is extremely responsible one, but getting prepared can be even harder. Thus, to pack my baggage is a task of extreme hardness for me. =)
     But when 'm on the plane, or any other means of transportation, i feel calm and secure and can totally plunge into the joyful atmosphere of a trip. It seems to me that people adore traveling because exactly this very reason.

     Recently, I've heard an interesting fact that in the US, there are about 61 m people on planes in the air at any given moment. Can you imagine this? Personally for me it was hard to believe in! And do you know that our country possesses nearly the third part of all the planes in the world.
     App. 90 m of Americans used their access to the Internet for the sake of planning their trips. The title of the most visited country belongs to France. And in 1930 a woman who wanted to become a flight attendant had to weigh 115 pounds or less.
    Genting Highlands Resort in Pahang Darul Makmur is the biggest hotel in the world with its 6 000 rooms on offer. However, it is Las Vegas to to boast of the highest total number of hotel rooms. In Scotland you have an opportunity to buy the plane ticket for the shortest air trip lasting for 2 minutes.

The Pirate Cinema

     Pirate Cinema is a cinema hall in France which can boast of presenting only pirate movies. However, they are not the ones about pirate adventures, they are the ones from the torrents worldwide. 
Nicolas Maigret and Brandon Howell decided to set up a cinema which will constantly examine the torrents in the WWW and download movies. The latter won't be displayed in a standard way, though. They are going to be cut and mixed, so that the complete chaos will reign on the screen.

     Nicolas Maigret has claimed that we hah had a great opportunity to experience the 15-years period when all the content in the Internet had been almost totally free. The current changes in the law will probably lead to demolishing of such an opportunity which the cinema is the monument for.

AD

     What is regarded as the main pusher of the market development. The answer is quite easy, and it is advertising. Loads of money are spent on it, loads of creative ideas and long hours are dedicated to this.

   

     In Latin the verb 'ad vertere' meant to turn the mind towards. Here lies the basic content of the world. The main goal of advertising is the control or manipulation of the audience. The purposes can be quite divergent, the main though are marketing, political and ideological.

   
     Thomas J. Barratt is said to be the founder of modern advertising, as he was the first to use slogans and pictures, working for the Pears Soap Company.
     Interesting feature of 20th century's advertising was that its target audience was women, who were commonly responsible for shopping.
     The further development of advertising is connected with the development of telecommunication: radio,TV, Internet.

It can be quite surprising, but advertising existed in times of Ancient Egypt in form of sales messages and wall papers on papyrus. Ancient Greece and Rome are not exception. Since in the Middle Ages there were many illiterate people who were unable to read, various signs became popular, such as a boot, scissors, horse shoe, etc. Newspaper advertising appeared in England in the newspapers.