Narcissistic partners, parents, friends do the following.
• Attempt to move the goal posts so that what you do is never "enough" even though you are overqualified.
• Hypercriticize and nitpick to keep you feeling small so you shrink rather than owning your gifts and assets proudly.
• Attack you out of jealousy and envy, covertly trying to minimize your achievements, get you to hyper-focus on false shortcomings or manufacturing flaws that don't exist.
• Override your consent and force you into situations you explicitly stated you did not want. Manufacture chaos and drama to provoke your reactions and maintain a sense of control. Bring up the same conversations repeatedly where you've already overexplained yourself. Create twisted love
triangles or pit people against each other.

Your environment plays a big factor in your life.

The 1950s brick facade being removed from a historic 1800s building.

During the 1950s and 60s, many historic buildings in American cities were modernized with brick or concrete veneers to match contemporary tastes. Beneath these surfaces, however, often lay ornate stonework and iron detailing from an earlier architectural era, hidden for decades.

The image of the Macy’s building mid-restoration evokes the layered nature of urban history. Each generation leaves its mark, sometimes erasing or disguising the past in the process. What emerges when the modern shell is stripped away is not just a structure, but a story, one of changing aesthetics, commerce, and preservation. This rediscovery is a metaphor for how cities evolve, preserving fragments of their former selves beneath the weight of progress.

Added fact: Architectural historians call this process “facadism,” a controversial practice where only the historical front of a building is preserved while the rest is rebuilt, often sparking debates over authenticity and heritage.

This infographic explains how to calculate the exact amounts of cement, sand, and gravel needed for M20 grade concrete.

The process starts with the standard M20 mix proportion of 1:1.5:3 (1 part cement, 1.5 parts sand, and 3 parts gravel). A crucial step often overlooked is accounting for the shrinkage that occurs when wet concrete hardens. To compensate for this volume loss, civil engineers apply a safety factor (typically 1.54 to 1.57) to the desired wet volume to determine the required dry volume of materials.

Following the calculations in the image to get 1 cubic meter of finished concrete, you would need:

Cement: 0.28 m³, or approximately 8 bags.

Sand: 0.42 m³, or about 16 cubic feet.

Aggregate (Gravel): 0.85 m³, or about 21 cubic feet.

This is a fantastic reference for getting your mix proportions right every time!

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Flattening hills to build Seattle, 1905-1930.

Between 1905 and 1930, Seattle underwent one of the most ambitious urban engineering projects in American history: the regrading of its hills. The city’s steep terrain, while scenic, was seen as a barrier to economic growth and expansion.

In response, entire hillsides (like Denny Hill, shown in this photo) were systematically flattened using sluicing, where high-pressure water cannons eroded the soil and sent it through massive flumes. The displaced earth was often used to fill in tide flats and create new, flatter land for development.

What you see in this image are the final remnants of Denny Hill, isolated towers of earth known as “spite mounds,” left standing amid the newly carved landscape.

The scale of the project was massive, moving millions of cubic yards of earth and permanently reshaping the city.

Today, much of downtown Seattle sits on land that was once underwater or high above sea level, testament to a bold, if brutal, vision of progress.

Fun Fact: To flatten Denny Hill, workers used high-powered water jets called "hydraulic monitors”, the same technology used during the California Gold Rush to blast through mountains in search of gold.

In total, they moved enough earth to fill over 100,000 modern dump trucks. The sheer amount of mud and sediment caused issues too, at one point, streets were left suspended in midair as the ground beneath them was washed away faster than the infrastructure could be updated. Seattle locals joked they needed ladders just to reach their front doors!

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The Aftermath of Impact: 10 Must-See Craters on Earth:
1. Chicxulub Crater (Mexico)
Fun Fact: This 180 km-wide crater is linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

Cool Detail: It's buried beneath the Yucatán Peninsula, with only part visible in satellite imagery.

2. Vredefort Crater (South Africa)
Fun Fact: At 2 billion years old and about 300 km in diameter, it's the largest and oldest confirmed impact crater on Earth.

Cool Detail: The central uplift (Vredefort Dome) is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

3. Sudbury Basin (Canada)
Fun Fact: Formed 1.8 billion years ago, it’s the second-largest confirmed impact crater on Earth.

Cool Detail: Rich in nickel and other metals, it helped fuel Canada’s mining industry.

4. Manicouagan Crater (Canada)
Fun Fact: Known as the “Eye of Quebec,” this 100 km-wide crater has a distinctive ring lake.

Cool Detail: It’s easily visible from space and often mistaken for a volcanic caldera.

5. Barringer Crater (USA)
Fun Fact: Also called Meteor Crater, it's only about 50,000 years old and one of the best-preserved impact sites.

Cool Detail: The crater is just 1.2 km wide but was caused by a meteorite only 50 meters across.

6. Lonar Crater (India)
Fun Fact: This rare crater was formed in basaltic rock, making it geologically unique.

Cool Detail: It's filled with both saline and alkaline, supporting a rare dual ecosystem.

7. Gosses Bluff (Australia)
Fun Fact: Known as Tnorala to the Western Arrernte people, Aboriginal legend says it was formed by a baby falling from the Milky Way.

Cool Detail: The current visible ring is about 5 km across, but the original crater was closer to 22 km.

8. Wolfe Creek Crater (Australia)
Fun Fact: Featured in the horror movie Wolf Creek, it's one of the world’s best-preserved small impact craters.

Cool Detail: Aboriginal Dreamtime stories also describe the crater's formation in cosmic terms.

9. Kara Crater (Russia)
Fun Fact: It’s partly destroyed due to erosion and tectonic activity, but originally may have been up to 120 km wide.

Cool Detail: Located in the Russian Arctic, it's one of the most remote craters on the list.

10. Popigai Crater (Russia)
Fun Fact: This 100 km-wide crater is one of the largest diamond deposits in the world—caused by shock transformation of graphite.

Cool Detail: The diamonds are industrial-grade and not gem-quality, but incredibly abundant.

(Note:-Some craters are real, while others are AI-generated images .Some impact craters are hidden due to erosion, vegetation, urban development, or being underwater and their real picture are vanished.
In example :Vredefort (South Africa),Sudbury Crater...not real image)

SIGNS YOU’RE BECOMING UNTOUCHABLE :

• You don’t react—you calculate.
• You don’t get attached—you observe.
• You don’t seek validation—you know your worth.
• You make moves in silence—people notice after the fact.
• You can’t be manipulated—your emotions don’t control you.
• You focus on growth, not distractions.
• You let people think they’ve won—then outlast them.

Master yourself, and no one can break you.