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Where was the log cabin invented?

Log cabin (log cabin) - the traditional home of American settlers.

Most likely in Scandinavia 4000 years ago.

This was made possible by the development of metal tools in the Bronze Age. Easy to build, strong, durable and warm, log cabins were built almost everywhere in Northern Europe.

The ancient Greeks could certainly claim the palm: after all, despite the fact that today the ancient coniferous forests have left the Mediterranean, there is a theory that the one-room houses (or megaron) of the Minoans and Mycenaeans were originally built from horizontally stacked pine logs.

The log cabin, America's spiritual home, came to the continent in the 1630s with Swedish and Finnish settlers who settled in Delaware. British settlers, by the way, built their dwellings from flat boards, not from logs.

The Hodgenville, Kentucky City Museum proudly displays the famous single-windowed, dirt-floored log cabin where Abraham Lincoln was supposedly born (even though it was built thirty years after his death). Regrettably, but the story is very reminiscent of a lapse from old school writings: "Abe Lincoln was born in a wooden hut that he built with his own hands."

Despite the curious absurdity, the US National Park Service strictly warns tourists: the use of flashlights is prohibited so as not to harm historical logs.

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Where is the highest mountain?

On Mars.

The giant volcano Olympus - or, in Latin, Olympus Mons - is the highest mountain in the solar system and other parts of the universe known to mankind.

With a height of 22 km and a diameter of 624 km, Mount Olympus is almost three times higher than Everest and is so wide that its base can cover Arizona or the entire territory of the British Isles. The crater at the top is about 72 km wide and over 3 km deep - just enough to fit a metropolis like London.

It should be noted, however, that Mount Olympus does not exactly fall under the definition of "mountain" as most people understand it. The top of Mount Olympus is completely flat - like a huge plateau in the middle of the sea, from which water has been pumped out - and the slopes are by no means steep. A slight incline of 1-3 degrees means you won't even break a sweat while climbing.

Traditionally, we are used to judging mountains by their height. If we judged mountains by their size, it would be completely meaningless to separate one mountain in a range from all the others. With this approach, Olympus would be a midget compared to Everest. Since Everest is only part of the giant mountain system of the Himalayas - Karakoram - Hindu Kush - Pamir, stretching for almost 2400 km.

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