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Rise And Fall Of Subway

With thousands of store closures in the last three years and petitions against Subway from its franchise owners, the fast-food chain with the most locations globally seems to be on the rocks. We unpack what's going on and where Subway's headed from here. With more than 42,000 restaurants in over 100 countries, Subway has the most locations of any fast-food chain on the planet. And at first, that sounds like a sign of a thriving sub giant. However, Subway is anything but. Subways closed thousands of stores in the last three years and saw a 25% fall in business from 2012 to 2017. So what happened? The chain began as Petes Super Submarines in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1965. Three years later, cofounders Fred DeLuca and Peter Buck rebranded it to simply Subway. Announcer: Subways famous giant foot-long sandwiches are made right before your eyes, the way you want em. Len Van Pope ring: What was so compelling then and still is today about Subway is really an open-kitchen format. In...

From Proconsul to Homo heidelbergensis

For Millions of years, our planet has been floating in space. Millions of creatures have lived on its surface. Many a quaint being was among them, but they affected only our, human imagination, for in the evolutionary struggle we are the only ones who have obtained the advantage of reason. For Millions of years, our planet has been floating in space. Millions of creatures have lived on its surface. Many a quaint being was among them, but they affected only our, human imagination, for in the evolutionary struggle we are the only ones who have obtained the advantage of reason. Reaching it was far from easy. Its origin dates back twenty million years to those fruit-eating creatures that lived in African trees called Proconsuls. They romped about in trees, far above terrestrial dangers, feeding on fruit and leaves. Depending on the species, they varied in size from the marmoset to the gorilla. They hardly cared about the world below. Proconsuls climbed about the branches on all fours and...

Limitless Energy & the Pyramids of Egypt

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Tesla held over 300 patents and is responsible for inventing the laser, x-ray, radio, Tesla coil, Tesla turbine, neon signs, induction motor, remote control and many more. Tesla was a brilliant mind, but did not focus his energy on monetizing his inventions and had difficulty socializing. He died alone in a small hotel in New York. The Great Pyramid of Giza ( also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops ) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex bordering present-day El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. Correction: In the video I draw a line pointing to the middle pyramid as The Great Pyramid. The Great Pyra...

Cambodian Food ,Trapeang Thloeng Market Morning Scenes In Phnom Penh

Cambodian Food Market Morning Scenes, Trapeang Thloeng Market Morning Scenes In Phnom Penh Who needs love when you can eat all the chocolate in the world. I feel like stripping whenever I see good food. There is no love more sincere than my love for food. If you’re hungry and you want thousands of something, then eat rice! Who needs inspirational quotes when you can just drink coffee?  Most people eat to live. On the contrary, I live to eat. Calories don’t count during the weekends. There’s absolutely no need for me to go to the gym. The name of the cashier at the Mcdonald’s I frequent is Jim, so same thing! I love Instagram because it allows me to maintain a record of every meal I partake. Eating spaghetti requires so much attention. That’s why you can never feel lonely while eating it. Take food as your medicine before you take medicine as your food. If it’s made of chocolate, then I’m going to eat it! First, we eat breakfast. Then, we change the world. Good food is the foundatio...

Amazing Tuol Tumpoung & Olympic Market Morning Scenes

Amazing Phnom Penh Local Market Morning Scenes, Tuol Tumpoung & Olympic Market Morning Scenes  In the mood for noods. Eat today, live another day. I’m never giving up on chocolate! I’m not a quitter! I am on a seafood diet. I see food, I eat it. A day is best started on a full stomach. Dine well and you’ll be able to think well, sleep well, and live well. Cupcakes are muffins that are believed in miracles. For some reason, food tastes better when it’s somebody’s treat. Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti. It’s not true that money can’t buy happiness. I mean, have you tried buying ice cream? It’s the same thing! Dinner is one of life’s greatest pleasures. There is no “we” in fries. Remember that! There’s nothing more romantic than Italian food. I’m on a 30-day diet. So far, I’ve lost 15 days. Where there is good food, there is happiness. Let’s eat some diet food while we wait for the steak to cook. Amazing Phnom Penh Central Market Morning Scenes

Amazing Phnom Penh Central Market Morning Scenes

 Amazing Phnom Penh Central Market Morning Scenes, Cambodian Market Morning Scenes I’d hate to lie on my deathbed and think: “I could have eaten that!” One does not need silver cutlery to eat delectable food. Food shared is happiness multiplied. Eat, drink and live free. There’s no telling what might happen tomorrow. Oh, did you say exercise? I thought you said extra fries! It’s essential for every party to have cake. If there’s no cake, then it’s only a meeting. 9 out of 10 people love chocolate. And the 10th person is always lying. The chief ingredient in yummy food is love. There is no better reward for hard work than good food. They told me to follow my heart. Guess where it led me? To the fridge. When you immerse yourself in the culinary culture of Khmer To live a full life, you have to fill your stomach first. Carbs might be my soulmate. All I want for Christmas is ... food. Never eat more than you can lift. The most essential part of a well-balanced diet is — food! Dear diet...

Eating DELICIOUS Fresh Spring Rolls, Cambodian Street Food

 A Walk Through Prek Tauch Market, Eating DELICIOUS Fresh Spring Rolls, Cambodian Street Food My Father was an engineer in the Army, before he was executed. The three had their ankles chained together to a machine gun for the battle. Soldiers of the camp were executed by the Khmer Rouge just after Phnom Penh fell. My Mother told me do not tell others about our family background. I also pretended to be illiterate. They killed him by throwing him into the well and dropping stones on him. In 1975, my third Brother died as we did not have medicine or food. He was injured by a fish and got an infection. If I could not do this, I would die, and my bones would be left in the nearby fields. The Khmer Rouge cadre looked at her and told her harshly that they were all children of Angkar, and they could kill them anytime. We all have to work to serve Angkar, be committed to Angkar, and to report our parents ’stories to Angkar. We were skin and bones. I could only just stand up in the rice fiel...

When you immerse yourself in the culinary culture of Khmer Street

 Cambodia Street Food- Find delightful and cheap street food of Cambodia. ... When you immerse yourself in the culinary culture of Khmer Street, Then they took us to an area quite a distance from the camp, where the pond was to be dug. Because of the hardship and suffering, the smell of dead bodies in the ponds was not really bad. Khmer Rouge soldiers planted landmines after they left. We stayed a month at the gas station, looking for food in the forest, trying not to step on landmines. Most of the food was burnt by the Khmer Rouge before they had fled into the forest. Six people in all were arrested and questioned. One was beaten until he died because he said ‘no’ to all questions. One of the injured patients had a broken backbone, from which he would surely die as there was no specialized treatment available for him. A boy boss stood up and asked a question. Who has collected more cow shit this morning? A boy said to the class: we all have to report our parent’s stories to the or...

The Largest Star in the Universe

 What is the largest star in the universe and why is it that large? And what are stars anyway? Things That Would Like To Be Stars We begin our journey with Earth. Not to learn anything, just to get a vague sense of scale. The smallest things that have some star-like properties are large gas giants, or sub-brown dwarfs. Like Jupiter, the most massive planet in the solar system. Eleven times larger and 317 times more massive than Earth, and more or less, made of the same stuff as our Sun. Just much, much less of it. The transition towards stars begins with brown dwarfs, failed stars, that are a huge disappointment to their moms. They have between 13 and 90 times the mass of Jupiter. So even if we took 90 Jupiter’s and threw them at each other, although fun to watch, it wouldn’t be enough to create a star. Interestingly, adding lots of mass to a brown dwarf doesn’t make it much bigger, just its insides denser. This increases the pressure in the core enough to make certain nuclear fusi...

Who is Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is probably the world’s most famous painting. But whose portrait actually is it? There are two clues to the identity of the mysterious young woman, but they are mutually exclusive. Can the riddle ever be solved? Every year, millions of visitors view the portrait exhibited in the legendary Louvre in Paris. But what makes the "Mona Lisa" so special? Who is hidden behind this smiling and yet sad face? Who was Leonardo's model? Or is she even the imaginary image of an ideal beauty? Experts have been wrestling with this question for centuries. There seems to be evidence for two explanations. Both variants have been handed down in writing, but they are not compatible. The most recognized theory goes back to the biographer Giorgio Vasari. According to him, the portrait is of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a Florentine silk merchant who had commissioned the work from Leonardo in 1503. But this is contradicted by a note of the chronicl...

The Man Who Knew Infinity & the Akashic Records

On December 22, 1887, a child was born in Madras, India, one of many in a country of, at the time, nearly 300 million people. He was given the name Ramanujan - meaning ‘the brother of Rama,’ a Hindu deity. But this was not just any child. Before he hit puberty, Ramanujan had become a mathematical prodigy almost totally by accident. By the age of 11, he had exhausted and surpassed the knowledge of two college students who happened to be boarding with his family. At 13, he mastered advanced trigonometry without a teacher, alone, from a book someone had lent him, and began creating his own theorems. At 16, he stumbled by chance across a copy of G.S. Carr’s seminal work A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics and began to work through its 5000 theorems. The next year, Ramanujan independently developed and investigated the Bernoulli numbers and calculated the Euler-Mascheroni constant to fifteen decimal places, completing as a teenager and without mentorship what th...