Most Popular Ginger candy in Europe

Who knows the current price of ginger candy? Understandably, the more rarely sold at the stalls around us. Ginger candy is usually produced by a cottage industry, so it can not compete with other candy factory results.

Who would have guessed, this candy was already famous in Europe for hundreds of years.At least that is contained in the writings of John Joseph Stockdale in his book Island ofJava.

British adventurer is expressed in his book, the Netherlands send as many as 5,000kilograms with a product called Candied ginger from Batavia to Europe in 1778. Looking at the numbers, very large for the size of the time.

Confectionary is popular with the people of Europe because of the perceived fit to the natural conditions of their cold. 

In addition, the traditional also has the ability to keep warm, refreshing and healing throatand bloating tenggorokon warm and refreshing.

Amazingly, ginger candy was also selected as one of the typical candy Indonesia no lessfamous than the nougat (France) or Gummy Bear (Germany).

Best 10 : Most Downloaded Films in 2011

Although the only available and can be seen in theaters, not a few films to be hunted for download alias download on certain websites. Activity via the internet movie piracy has long been underway. However, the piracy rate dropped this year compared to 2010.

Last year, most downloaded film Avatar, which is about 16 million times. In 2011, best selling pirated movies just downloaded by more than 9 million times.

Reduced number of downloading pirated movies is likely to be affected by the streamingservice provided by sites like Netflix. With streaming, users no longer need a large spacein their hardware so just watch the movies they want for streaming through Netflix. The existence of tablets that provide a collection of digital movies and books such as iPad andKindle Fire also allegedly reduce the number of downloaded movies.

Here's a list of 10 most pirated movies downloaded through the year 2011 based on dataof BitTorrent:

1. Fast Five (downloaded 9.26 million times)
2. The Hangover II (downloaded 8.84 million times)
3. Thor (downloaded 8.33 million times)
4. Source Code (downloaded 7.91 million times)
5. I am Number Four (downloaded 7.67 million times)
6. Sucker Punch (downloaded 7.2 million times)
7. 127 Hours (downloaded 6.91 million times)
8. Rango (downloaded 6.48 million times)
9. The King's Speech (downloaded 6.25 million times)
10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (downloaded 6.03 million times)

the Blue Skin mystery

On some old beliefs and folklore, blue skin usually refers to the figure of the god. For example, the god Krishna in Hindu belief. Alternatively, the Egyptian god, Ammon was alsodepicted a blue-skinned.

Somehow, it turns blue-skinned man was real, as the following story.
In 1820, a French orphan named Martin Fugate received a grant of land in easternKentucky, which is known by the name of Troublesome Creek.

 

Martin later married an American woman, Elizabeth Smith, the red hair and very white skin,white as snow. Fugate family has 7 children, 4 of which are blue-skinned.

This family is increasing in number, as fellow members of the family Fugate married to each other. Marriage between cousins ​​are common, Fugate family also married withfamilies of their neighbors.

These communities live in remote areas that do not have the infrastructure.
Martin children who eventually married a blue-skinned brother from their mother.Zachariah, a blue-skinned child, married the brother of the mother, and produce a combination of genes that 100 years later be the cause of the birth of Benjy Stacy withblue-purple skin color!

When family doctors are amazed to see the condition of Benjy, they explained the story ofBenjy great-grandmother, the Luna Fugate. The family said Luna is a woman who was "very blue", "bluest woman who ever lived".

Why blue-skinned?
The disorder is called methaemoglobinaemia - or in short: met-H, a condition that reduces the ability to carry oxygen in the blood. As a result, the blood becomes darker than normalcolor.

Cases in Family Fugate possible due to marry a neighbor and close relatives that causegenetic disorders continues.