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6 Fakta Menarik Derby Manchester

Rabu, 02 Maret 2011

6 Fakta Menarik Derby Manchester Asssalamu'alaikum............................
Sabtu ini mata penggemar sepak bola khususnya Liga Primer Inggris akan tertuju pada “big match” derby antara Manchester United dan Manchester City yang akan digelar pada Sabtu, 12 Februari (waktu Inggris) di stadion Old Trafford.
Pertandingan ini tak saja menarik dalam hal duel yang akan ditunjukkan saat kedua tim bertemu, namun juga hasilnya akan menjadi penentu penting dalam sepak bola Inggris di musim ini. Kedua klub seakan berlomba untuk mencapai titel jawara. United saat ini ada di posisi puncak klasemen sementara dengan poin 54 sedangkan City diurutan ketiga terpaut lima angka dengan poin 49.
Selain itu ada banyak fakta antara derby United dan City yang sangat menarik untuk disimak. Berikut beberapa fakta untuk membangun prediksi Anda siapa yang bakalan menang dalam derby Manchester nanti.
Fakta 1
United telah memenangkan hampir separuh derby Manchester yang diadakan di Old Trafford. Kemenangan ini mencapai 47,44 persen dari 37 kemenangan, sedangkan City hanya bisa mendapatkan 15 kali kemenangan sehingga prosentasenya hanya 19,23 persen, 26 laga yang lain menghasilkan seri.
Fakta 2
United mampu mencetak 129 gol dalam laga derby yang diadakan di Old Trafford sedangkan City hanya 91 gol, ini berarti The Reds mampu mencetak 1,65 gol dalam tiap pertandingan sedangkan The Blues hanya mampu menghasilkan 1.17 gol.
Fakta 3
Kemenangan City terbaik terjadi pada tahun 2925-1926 dimana saat itu City berhasil mengalahkan United dengan skor 6-1. Sedangkan kemenangan United terbesar terhadap City datang ditahun 1994-1995 dengan kemenangan 5-0.
Fakta 4
Kemenangan terakhir City saat dijamu United terjadi ditahun 2008, dimana saat itu City menang 2-1 atas United. Sedangkan kemenangan United terakhir dalam pertandingan di Old Trafford terjadi pada tahun 2009 dimana United menang 4-3 atas city. Saat itu Craig Bellamy mencetak dua gol sebelum pertandingan berakhir hingga membalik keadaan untuk kemenangan United.
Fakta 5
Laga Sabtu (12/2) nanti akan menjadi duel edisi ke-158 antara kedua tim dari semua kompetisi, termasuk satu pertemuan Community Shield.
Fakta 6

United saat ini memimpin klasemen sementara Liga Primer Inggris, dengan poin 54 sedangkan City berada di posisi ketiga dibawah runner Arsenal dengan poin 49. Manchester United menjadi klub tak terkalahkan dalam musim ini, tapi sayangnya rekord tersebut harus tercoreng setelah kekalahan yang dideritanya saat melawan Wolves pada 6 Februari lalu.
Jadi siapa yang bakanan menang? Manchetser United ataukah Manchester City?

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Atlantis

Rabu, 26 Januari 2011


Atlantis (in Greek, Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, "island of Atlas") is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias.
In Plato's account, Atlantis was a naval power lying "in front of the Pillars of Hercules" that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9,000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC. After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean "in a single day and night of misfortune".
Scholars dispute whether and how much Plato's story or account was inspired by older traditions. Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration from contemporary events like the destruction of Helike in 373 BC[1] or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415–413 BC.
The possible existence of a genuine Atlantis was discussed throughout classical antiquity, but it was usually rejected and occasionally parodied by later authors. As Alan Cameron states: "It is only in modern times that people have taken the Atlantis story seriously; no one did so in antiquity".[2] While little known during the Middle Ages[citation needed], the story of Atlantis was rediscovered by Humanists in the Early Modern period. Plato's description inspired the utopian works of several Renaissance writers, like Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis". Atlantis inspires today's literature, from science fiction to comic books to films. Its name has become a byword for any and all supposed advanced prehistoric lost civilizations.

Plato's account

 

Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in 360 BC, contain the earliest references to Atlantis. For unknown reasons, Plato never completed Critias. Plato introduced Atlantis in Timaeus:
For it is related in our records how once upon a time your State stayed the course of a mighty host, which, starting from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean, was insolently advancing to attack the whole of Europe, and Asia to boot. For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together; and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, and from the islands to the whole of the continent over against them which encompasses that veritable ocean. For all that we have here, lying within the mouth of which we speak, is evidently a haven having a narrow entrance; but that yonder is a real ocean, and the land surrounding it may most rightly be called, in the fullest and truest sense, a continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there existed a confederation of kings, of great and marvelous power, which held sway over all the island, and over many other islands also and parts of the continent.[3]
The four persons appearing in those two dialogues are the politicians Critias and Hermocrates as well as the philosophers Socrates and Timaeus of Locri, although only Critias speaks of Atlantis. While most likely all of these people actually lived, these dialogues, written as if recorded, may have been the invention of Plato. In his works Plato makes extensive use of the Socratic dialogues in order to discuss contrary positions within the context of a supposition.
The Timaeus begins with an introduction, followed by an account of the creations and structure of the universe and ancient civilizations. In the introduction, Socrates muses about the perfect society, described in Plato's Republic (c. 380 BC), and wonders if he and his guests might recollect a story which exemplifies such a society. Critias mentions an allegedly historical tale that would make the perfect example, and follows by describing Atlantis as is recorded in the Critias. In his account, ancient Athens seems to represent the "perfect society" and Atlantis its opponent, representing the very antithesis of the "perfect" traits described in the Republic. Critias claims that his accounts of ancient Athens and Atlantis stem from a visit to Egypt by the legendary Athenian lawgiver Solon in the 6th century BC. In Egypt, Solon met a priest of Sais, who translated the history of ancient Athens and Atlantis, recorded on papyri in Egyptian hieroglyphs, into Greek. According to Plutarch, Solon met with "Psenophis of Heliopolis, and Sonchis of Sais, the most learned of all the priests";[4][5] Plutarch refers here to events that would have happened seven centuries before he wrote of them.
According to Critias, the Hellenic gods of old divided the land so that each god might own a lot; Poseidon was appropriately, and to his liking, bequeathed the island of Atlantis. The island was larger than Ancient Libya and Asia Minor combined,[6] but it afterwards was sunk by an earthquake and became an impassable mud shoal, inhibiting travel to any part of the ocean. The Egyptians, Plato asserted, described Atlantis as an island comprising mostly mountains in the northern portions and along the shore, and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south "extending in one direction three thousand stadia [about 555 km; 345 mi], but across the center inland it was two thousand stadia [about 370 km; 230 mi]." Fifty stadia [9 km; 6 mi] from the coast was a mountain that was low on all sides...broke it off all round about[7]... the central island itself was five stades in diameter [about 0.92 km; 0.57 mi].[8]
In Plato's myth, Poseidon fell in love with Cleito, the daughter of Evenor and Leucippe, who bore him five pairs of male twins. The eldest of these, Atlas, was made rightful king of the entire island and the ocean (called the Atlantic Ocean in his honor), and was given the mountain of his birth and the surrounding area as his fiefdom. Atlas's twin Gadeirus, or Eumelus in Greek, was given the extremity of the island towards the pillars of Hercules.[9] The other four pairs of twins—Ampheres and Evaemon, Mneseus and Autochthon, Elasippus and Mestor, and Azaes and Diaprepes—were also given "rule over many men, and a large territory."
Poseidon carved the mountain where his love dwelt into a palace and enclosed it with three circular moats of increasing width, varying from one to three stadia and separated by rings of land proportional in size. The Atlanteans then built bridges northward from the mountain, making a route to the rest of the island. They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats. Every passage to the city was guarded by gates and towers, and a wall surrounded each of the city's rings. The walls were constructed of red, white and black rock quarried from the moats, and were covered with brass, tin and the precious metal orichalcum, respectively.[10]
According to Critias, 9,000 years before his lifetime a war took place between those outside the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar and those who dwelt within them. The Atlanteans had conquered the parts of Libya within the Pillars of Hercules as far as Egypt and the European continent as far as Tyrrhenia, and subjected its people to slavery. The Athenians led an alliance of resistors against the Atlantean empire, and as the alliance disintegrated, prevailed alone against the empire, liberating the occupied lands.
But at a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods, and one grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished; wherefore also the ocean at that spot has now become impassable and unsearchable, being blocked up by the shoal mud which the island created as it settled down.[11]
The logographer Hellanicus of Lesbos wrote an earlier work titled Atlantis, of which only a few fragments survive. Hellanicus' work appears to have been a genealogical one concerning the daughters of Atlas[12] (Ἀτλαντὶς in Greek means "of Atlas"), but some authors have suggested a possible connection with Plato's island. John V. Luce notes that when he writes about the genealogy of Atlantis's kings Plato writes in the same style as Hellanicus and suggests a similarity between a fragment of Hellanicus's work and an account in the Critias.[12] Robert Castleden suggests Plato may have borrowed his title from Hellanicus, and that Hellanicus may have based his work on an earlier work on Atlantis.[13]

[edit] Reception

[edit] Ancient

Some ancient writers viewed Atlantis as fiction while others believed it was real.[14] The philosopher Crantor, a student of Plato's student Xenocrates, is often cited as an example of a writer who thought the story to be historical fact. His work, a commentary on Plato's Timaeus, is lost, but Proclus, a Neoplatonist of the fifth century AD, reports on it.[15] The passage in question has been represented in the modern literature either as claiming that Crantor actually visited Egypt, had conversations with priests, and saw hieroglyphs confirming the story or as claiming that he learned about them from other visitors to Egypt.[16] Proclus wrote
As for the whole of this account of the Atlanteans, some say that it is unadorned history, such as Crantor, the first commentator on Plato. Crantor also says that Plato's contemporaries used to criticize him jokingly for not being the inventor of his Republic but copying the institutions of the Egyptians. Plato took these critics seriously enough to assign to the Egyptians this story about the Athenians and Atlanteans, so as to make them say that the Athenians really once lived according to that system.
The next sentence is often translated "Crantor adds, that this is testified by the prophets of the Egyptians, who assert that these particulars [which are narrated by Plato] are written on pillars which are still preserved." But in the original, the sentence starts not with the name Crantor but with the word He, and whether this referred to Crantor or to Plato is the subject of considerable debate. Proponents of both Atlantis as a myth and Atlantis as history have argued that the word refers to Crantor.[17] Alan Cameron, however, argues that it should be interpreted as referring to Plato, and that when Proclus writes that "we must bear in mind concerning this whole feat of the Athenians, that it is neither a mere myth nor unadorned history, although some take it as history and others as myth", he is treating "Crantor's view as mere personal opinion, nothing more; in fact he first quotes and then dismisses it as representing one of the two unacceptable extremes".[18] Cameron also points out that whether he refers to Plato or to Crantor, the statement does not support conclusions such as Otto Muck's "Crantor came to Sais and saw there in the temple of Neith the column, completely covered with hieroglyphs, on which the history of Atlantis was recorded. Scholars translated it for him, and he testified that their account fully agreed with Plato's account of Atlantis" or J. V. Luce's suggestion that Crantor sent "a special enquiry to Egypt" and that he may simply be referring to Plato's own claims.[18]
Another passage from Proclus' commentary on the Timaeus gives a description of the geography of Atlantis: "That an island of such nature and size once existed is evident from what is said by certain authors who investigated the things around the outer sea. For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Pluto, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia [200 km]; and the inhabitants of it—they add—preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon. Now these things Marcellus has written in his Aethiopica".[19] Marcellus remains unidentified.
Other ancient historians and philosophers believing in the existence of Atlantis were Strabo and Posidonius.[20]
Plato's account of Atlantis may have also inspired parodic imitation: writing only a few decades after the Timaeus and Critias, the historian Theopompus of Chios wrote of a land beyond the ocean known as Meropis. This description was included in Book 8 of his voluminous Philippica, which contains a dialogue between King Midas and Silenus, a companion of Dionysus. Silenus describes the Meropids, a race of men who grow to twice normal size, and inhabit two cities on the island of Meropis (Cos?): Eusebes (Εὐσεβής, "Pious-town") and Machimos (Μάχιμος, "Fighting-town"). He also reports that an army of ten million soldiers crossed the ocean to conquer Hyperborea, but abandoned this proposal when they realized that the Hyperboreans were the luckiest people on earth. Heinz-Günther Nesselrath has argued that these and other details of Silenus' story are meant as imitation and exaggeration of the Atlantis story, for the purpose of exposing Plato's ideas to ridicule.[21]
Zoticus, a Neoplatonist philosopher of the 3rd century AD, wrote an epic poem based on Plato's account of Atlantis.[22]
The 4th century historian Ammianus Marcellinus, relying on a lost work by Timagenes, a historian writing in the 1st century BC, writes that the Druids of Gaul said that part of the inhabitants of Gaul had migrated there from distant islands. Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe; but Ammianus in fact says that “the Drasidae (Druids) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine" (Res Gestae 15.9), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north (Britain, the Netherlands or Germany), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.[23] Instead, the Celts that dwelled along the ocean were reported to venerate twin gods (Dioscori) that appeared to them coming from that ocean.[24]
A Hebrew treatise on computational astronomy dated to AD 1378/79, alludes to the Atlantis myth in a discussion concerning the determination of zero points for the calculation of longitude:
Some say that they [the inhabited regions] begin at the beginning of the western ocean [the Atlantic] and beyond. For in the earliest times [literally: the first days] there was an island in the middle of the ocean. There were scholars there, who isolated themselves in [the pursuit of] philosophy. In their day, that was the [beginning for measuring] the longitude[s] of the inhabited world. Today, it has become [covered by the?] sea, and it is ten degrees into the sea; and they reckon the beginning of longitude from the beginning of the western sea.[25]

A map showing the supposed extent of the Atlantean Empire. From Ignatius L. Donnelly's Atlantis: the Antediluvian World, 1882.

[edit] Modern

Francis Bacon's 1627 essay The New Atlantis describes a utopian society that he called Bensalem, located off the western coast of America. A character in the narrative gives a history of Atlantis that is similar to Plato's and places Atlantis in America. It is not clear whether Bacon means North or South America. The Swedish scholar Olaus Rudbeck published Atland in several volumes, starting in 1679. This attempted to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved.[26] The Latin parallel title is Atlantica and the subtitle of both is Manheim, that is, home of mankind. According to Rudbeck, Atland means fatherland, and it was the original name of Atlantis. Isaac Newton's 1728 The Chronology of the Ancient Kingdoms Amended studies a variety of mythological links to Atlantis.[27] In the middle and late 19th century, several renowned Mesoamerican scholars, starting with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, and including Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon proposed that Atlantis was somehow related to Mayan and Aztec culture. The 1882 publication of Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Ignatius L. Donnelly stimulated much popular interest in Atlantis. Donnelly attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from Atlantis, which he saw as a technologically sophisticated culture, saying that Atlanteans invented gunpowder and the compass thousands of years before the rest of the world invented written language.

Ignatius L. Donnelly, American congressman, and writer on Atlantis.
During the late 19th century, ideas about the legendary nature of Atlantis were combined with stories of other lost continents such as Mu and Lemuria. The esoteric text Oera Linda, published in 1872, mentions it under the name Atland (the name used by Olaus Rudbeck). The book claims that it was submerged in 2193 BC, the same year that 19th century almanacs, following traditional Biblical chronology, gave for Noah's flood.[28] Helena Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine (1888) that the Atlanteans were cultural heroes (contrary to Plato who describes them mainly as a military threat), and are the fourth "Root Race", succeeded by the "Aryan race". Furthermore, she expressed the belief that it was Homer before Plato who first wrote of Atlantis.[29] Theosophists believe the civilization of Atlantis reached its peak between 1,000,000 and 900,000 years ago but destroyed itself through internal warfare brought about by the inhabitants' dangerous use of magical powers. William Scott-Elliot in The Story of Atlantis (1896) elaborated on Blavatsky's account, claiming that Atlantis eventually split into two linked islands, one called Daitya, and the other Ruta, which was later reduced to a final remnant called Poseidonis.[30] Scott-Elliot's information came from the clairvoyant Charles Webster Leadbeater. Rudolf Steiner wrote of the cultural evolution of Atlantis[31] in much the same vein. Edgar Cayce first mentioned Atlantis in 1923,[32] and later suggested that it was originally a continent-sized region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, holding an ancient, highly evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal. He also predicted that parts of Atlantis would rise in 1968 or 1969. The Bimini Road, a submerged rock formation of large rectangular stones just off North Bimini Island in the Bahamas, was claimed by Robert Ferro and Michael Grumley[33] to be evidence of the lost civilization. Edgar Cayce and others have often described Atlantis using techniques associated with Psychic archaeology.
According to Herodotus (c. 430 BC), a Phoenician expedition had circumnavigated Africa at the behest of Pharaoh Necho, sailing south down the Red Sea and Indian Ocean and northwards in the Atlantic, re-entering the Mediterranean Sea through the Pillars of Hercules. His description of northwest Africa makes it very clear that he located the Pillars of Hercules precisely where they are located today. Nevertheless, a supposed belief that they had been placed at the Strait of Sicily prior to Eratosthenes has been cited in some Atlantis theories.

American psychic Edgar Cayce, 1910

[edit] In Nazi mysticism

The concept of Atlantis attracted Nazi theorists. In 1938, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler organized a German expedition to Tibet in 1939 to search for Aryan Atlanteans[citation needed], although this suggestion has been criticised as inaccurate[34] and that the expedition was looking for the origins of the 'Europid' race or that it was a more general biological expedition.[35] According to Julius Evola, writing in 1934,[36] the Atlanteans were Hyperboreans—Nordic supermen who originated on the North pole (see Thule). Similarly, Alfred Rosenberg (The Myth of the Twentieth Century, 1930) spoke of a "Nordic-Atlantean" or "Aryan-Nordic" master race.

[edit] Recent times

As continental drift became more widely accepted during the 1960s, and the increased understanding of plate tectonics demonstrated the impossibility of a lost continent in the geologically recent past,[37] most “Lost Continent” theories of Atlantis began to wane in popularity.
Plato scholar Dr. Julia Annas, Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, had this to say on the matter:
The continuing industry of discovering Atlantis illustrates the dangers of reading Plato. For he is clearly using what has become a standard device of fiction—stressing the historicity of an event (and the discovery of hitherto unknown authorities) as an indication that what follows is fiction. The idea is that we should use the story to examine our ideas of government and power. We have missed the point if instead of thinking about these issues we go off exploring the sea bed. The continuing misunderstanding of Plato as historian here enables us to see why his distrust of imaginative writing is sometimes justified.[38]
Kenneth Feder points out that Critias's story in the Timaeus provides a major clue. In the dialogue, Critias says, referring to Socrates' hypothetical society:
And when you were speaking yesterday about your city and citizens, the tale which I have just been repeating to you came into my mind, and I remarked with astonishment how, by some mysterious coincidence, you agreed in almost every particular with the narrative of Solon. ...[39]
Feder quotes A. E. Taylor, who wrote, "We could not be told much more plainly that the whole narrative of Solon's conversation with the priests and his intention of writing the poem about Atlantis are an invention of Plato's fancy."[40]

[edit] Location hypotheses

Since Donnelly's day, there have been dozens of locations proposed for Atlantis, to the point where the name has become a generic concept, divorced from the specifics of Plato's account. This is reflected in the fact that many proposed sites are not within the Atlantic at all. Few today are scholarly or archaeological hypotheses, while others have been made by psychic or other pseudoscientific means. Many of the proposed sites share some of the characteristics of the Atlantis story (water, catastrophic end, relevant time period), but none has been demonstrated to be a true historical Atlantis.

Satellite image of the islands of Santorini. This location is one of many sites purported to have been the location of Atlantis

[edit] In or near the Mediterranean Sea

Most of the historically proposed locations are in or near the Mediterranean Sea: islands such as Sardinia, Crete and Santorini, Sicily, Cyprus, and Malta; land-based cities or states such as Troy, Tartessos, and Tantalus (in the province of Manisa), Turkey; Israel-Sinai or Canaan;[citation needed] and northwestern Africa.[41][42] The Thera eruption, dated to the 17th or 16th century BC, caused a large tsunami that experts hypothesize devastated the Minoan civilization on the nearby island of Crete, further leading some to believe that this may have been the catastrophe that inspired the story.[43] A. G. Galanopoulos argued that Plato's dating of 9,000 years before Solon's time was the result of an error in translation, probably from Egyptian into Greek, which produced "thousands" instead of "hundreds". Such an error would also rescale Plato's Atlantis to the size of Crete, while leaving the city the size of the crater on Thera; 900 years before Solon would be the 15th century BC.[44] In the area of the Black Sea the following locations have been proposed: Bosporus and Ancomah (a legendary place near Trabzon).

[edit] In the Atlantic Ocean

The location of Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean has certain appeal given the closely related names. Popular culture often places Atlantis there, perpetuating the original Platonic setting. Several hypotheses place the sunken island in northern Europe, including Doggerland in the North Sea, and Sweden (by Olof Rudbeck in Atland, 1672–1702). Some have proposed the Celtic Shelf and Andalusia as possible locations, and that there is a link to Ireland.[45] The Canary Islands and Madeira Islands have also been identified as a possible location, west of the Straits of Gibraltar but in proximity to the Mediterranean Sea. Various islands or island groups in the Atlantic were also identified as possible locations, notably the Azores. However detailed geological studies of the Canary Islands, the Azores, Madeira, and the ocean bottom surrounding them found a complete lack of any evidence for the catastrophic subsidence of these islands at any time during their existence and a complete lack of any evidence that the ocean bottom surrounding them was ever dry land at any time in the recent past. The submerged island of Spartel near the Strait of Gibraltar has also been suggested.[46]

[edit] Other locations

Several writers have speculated that Antarctica is the site of Atlantis,[47] [48] while others have proposed Caribbean locations such as Batabano Bay[49] south of Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Bermuda Triangle.[50] Areas in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have also been proposed including Indonesia (i.e. Sundaland).[51] The stories of a lost continent off India named "Kumari Kandam" have inspired some to draw parallels to Atlantis, as has the Yonaguni Monument of Japan.

[edit] Art, literature and popular culture

The legend of Atlantis is featured in many books, films, television series, games, songs and other creative works.

 

Bencana Paling Mematikan Di Dunia


Pada 12 Desember 2010, setahun lalu, gempa dengan kekuatan 7,0 skala Richter mengguncang Haiti. Ini adalah gempa paling dahsyat yang pernah mengguncang negara kepulauan itu dalam 200 tahun.

Episentrum gempa saat itu berada sekitar 16 kilometer selatan Ibu Kota, Port-au-Prince. Meski tak seberapa besar, dampaknya sungguh dahsyat, 200 ribu penduduk Haiti tewas.

Saat alam murka, di situlah terkuak kelemahan manusia. Angin kencang, tsunami, gempa bumi, letusan gunung berapi bisa membunuh ribuan manusia dalam seketika. Seringkali berapa pastinya korban jiwa yang diakibatkan bencana tak pernah diketahui.

Selain itu, tak mungkin membandingkan dampak bencana alam di era modern dan di masa lalu secara pasti. Salah satu alasannya, saat ini jumlah penduduk naik drastis dibanding beberapa abad lalu. Mereka tinggal di daerah-daerah berbahaya, di lereng gunung, dekat perairan. Bencana di masa kini berpotensi membunuh lebih banyak orang.

Seperti dimuat LiveScience.com, berikut adalah bencana yang masuk daftar terburuk sepanjang sejarah.

12 Januari 2010: Gempa Haiti menewaskan 200 ribu jiwa, jumlah pasti korban tidak diketahui. Palang Merah memperkirakan bencana ini mempengaruhi hidup 3 juta orang Haiti.

2 Mei 2008: Jumlah korban tewas akibat Topan Nargis masih belum jelas, tapi diperkirakan mencapai lebih dari 140 ribu orang. Penduduk Myanmar yang tinggal di sekitar persawahan di dataran rendah terjebak, tak tahu ke mana harus lari, lalu tersapu topan.

8 Oktober 2005: Gempa berkekuatan 7.6 SR di Pakistan menewaskan lebih dari 40 ribu orang. Kerusakan dan korban jiwa disebabkan oleh dangkalnya pusat gempa.

Agustus 2005: Badai Katrina menewaskan lebih dari 1.800 orang dan merupakan badai terparah dalam sejarah AS. Ini lebih mematikan dari bencana di negeri Paman Sam dalam beberapa dekade terakhir. Efeknya terasa hingga saat ini, penduduk New Orleans dan di pesisir masih berjuang memulihkan kehidupan mereka.

26 Desember 2004: Gempa dengan kekuatan 9.3 Skala Richter mengguncang Samudera Hindia. Gempa dahsyat ini memicu Tsunami yang menewaskan lebih dari 225.000 orang.

1985: Letusan dahsyat Gunung Nevado del Ruiz, Kolombia, menewaskan 25 ribu orang, sebagian besar karena tersapu banjir lahar.

1976: Gempa dengan kekuatan 8 Skala Richter mengguncang Tangshan, Cina, menewaskan 255 ribu hingga 655 ribu jiwa.

1931: Banjir Sungai Kuning diperkirakan telah membunuh 1 juta sampai 3,7 juta manusia. Ada yang tewas tenggelam, terkena penyakit akibat banjir, juga kelaparan. Sungai ini juga pernah meluber dahsyat dan menewaskan korban dengan jumlah yang sama besar.
1815: Letusan Gunung Tambora pada 1815. Diperkirakan 80 ribu orang meninggal karena kelaparan. Petaka juga dirasakan di Eropa dan Amerika Utara. Tahun 1816 dijuluki 'The Year without Summer', tak ada musim panas di tahun itu.

Letusan Tambora juga mengakibatkan gagal panen di China, Eropa, dan Irlandia. Hujan tanpa henti delama delapan minggu memicu epidemi tifus yang menewaskan 65 ribu orang di Inggris dan Eropa. Kelaparan melumpuhkan di Inggris.

1737: Bencana mengguncang Calcutta, India, menewaskan 300 ribu orang. Awalnya para ilmuwan menduga malapetaka itu diakibatkan gempa bumi, namun belakangan diketahui penyebab bencana itu cenderung mengarah ke angin topan.

1556: Gempa di Shaanzi, Cina menewaskan 830 ribu orang. Tidak ada yang tahu seberapa besar magnitud sebenarnya.

1330-1351: The Black Death atau pandemik penyakit pes disebabkan bakteri Yersinia pestis, diperkirakan menewaskan sekitar 75 juta orang, atau 30 hingga 60 persen populasi Eropa.

1138: Gempa bumi Aleppo, Suriah, menewaskan sekitar 230 ribu orang. Dalam data US Geological Survey (USGS), ini adalah gempa paling mematikan keempat sepanjang masa.

1500 SM atau lebih: Pulau Stroggli di Mediterrania terhempas. Gelombang Tsunami memusnahkan peradaban Minoan. Area bencana itu saat ini disebut Santorini. Plato menyebutnya situs di mana kota legendaris, Atlantis menghilang.

Hotel Anti Bencana, Tiru Bahtera Nabi Nuh



Assalamu'alaikum.............................

Ark Hotel bisa didirikan hanya dalam waktu beberapa bulan di seluruh bagian dunia.
Ancaman pemanasan global, saat ketinggian permukaan laut diperkirakan naik secara ekstrim dan menenggelamkan sebagian planet Bumi, menjadi inspirasi perusahaan arsitektur Rusia, Remistudio.

Dalam program arsitektur penanggulangan bencana International Union of Architects, Remistudio merancang sebuah hotel yang bisa berperan sebagai bahtera penyelamat, kalau-kalau bencana dahsyat terjadi. Namanya, Ark Hotel. Bisa didirikan di laut atau darat.

Ini mungkin terdengar seperti perpaduan kisah bahtera Nabi Nuh dan cerita film fiksi ilmiah tahun 1970-an. Namun, hotel berbentuk kerang ini memang didesain tahan yang banjir akibat kenaikan ekstrim permukaan air laut. Juga terhadap gelombang. Ark Hotel dapat mengapung dan timbul secara otomatis di permukaan air.
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Tak hanya itu, hotel ini juga tahan gempa, dan bisa didirikan di daerah yang berbahaya secara seismik. Arsiteknya mengklaim, desain yang terdiri dari konstruksi busur dan kabel dengan bantalan bisa mendistribusikan berat secara merata saat terjadi lindu.

Selain itu, struktur bawah tanahnya berbentuk tempurung, tanpa tepian atau sudut. Hotel raksasa yang mengambang ini diklaim juga sebagai 'biosfer', surga yang nyaman bagi para penghuninya, bahkan saat bencana sekalipun.

Desain hotel futuristik ini menggunakan panel matahari dan instalasi pengumpul air hujan, menjamin ketersediaan energi, juga air bagi para penghuninya.

Lingkungan yang mirip rumah kaca juga memungkinkan tanaman tumbuh subur, membantu meningkatkan kualitas udara dan juga menyediakan makanan.

Selain itu, strukturnya yang tembus pandang membuatnya hemat energi di siang hari. Cukup memanfaatkan energi matahari. Untuk memastikan kualitas cahaya, bingkai kaca dilengkapi pembersih otomatis.
Hotel Terapung 1

Menurut Alexander Remizov dari Remistudio, ada dua pertimbangan utama dalam desain ini.

"Pertama, meningkatkan pengamanan dan pencegahan terhadap kondisi lingkungan yang ekstrim dan perubahan iklim. Yang kedua adalah melindungi lingkungan alam dari aktivitas manusia," kata dia, seperti dimuat Daily Mail, 10 Januari 2011.

Bahtera ini juga dimaksudkan untuk menjawab tantangan lingkungan global saat ini. Juga untuk mendukung sistem pertahanan hidup.

"Semua tanaman dipilih yang sesuai, efisiensi pencahayaan, dan produksi oksigen. Juga bertujuan untuk menciptakan ruang yang menarik dan nyaman," kata dia.
Remizov menambahkan, atap hotel yang transparan menjamin ada cukup cahaya bagi tanaman dan untuk menerangi interior.
Perancangnya mengklaim, Ark Hotel bisa didirikan hanya dalam waktu beberapa bulan di seluruh bagian dunia. "Bagian-bagiannya bisa disatukan dalam waktu tiga sampai empat bulan," kata Remizov.

Hingga kini hotel ini masih berbentuk rancangan, para arsiteknya sedang mencari investor untuk membuatnya nyata. Selain jadi hotel yang nyaman untuk rehat, Ark Hotel bisa menjelma menjadi lokasi pengungsian di masa depan.


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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows adalah film fantasi yang diadaptasi dari novel yang berjudul sama karya J. K. Rowling. Film ini dibagi menjadi dua bagian dan masing-masing akan dirilis pada tahun 2010 dan 2011. Film ini adalah film ketujuh dan terakhir dari seri harry potter. Pengambilan gambar dimulai pada Februari 2009.

Bagian pertama film ini direncanakan akan dirilis pada 19 November 2010 Bagian kedua pada 15 Juli 2011. Kedua film ditulis oleh Steve Kloves, yang juga menulis film pertama dan keenam, dan disutradarai oleh David Yates, yang juga menyutradarai film kelima dan keenam. David Heyman dan David Barron adalah produser kedua film.

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