{"id":5375,"date":"2015-09-03T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T11:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/armenia-is-back-in-the-age-of-noah-according-to-google\/"},"modified":"2015-09-03T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T11:58:39","slug":"armenia-is-back-in-the-age-of-noah-according-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/critique\/2015\/09\/03\/5375\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia is Back in the Age of Noah, According to Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Armenia&#8217;s international image, it seems, is the concern of all of us. We are offended when many foreigners are unfamiliar with Armenian history \u2014&nbsp;some don&#8217;t even know where our country is on the map. By the way, it&#8217;s my impression that we place more importance on knowledge of our history than of our geographical location.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Most likely, these collective efforts have begun to bear fruit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Recently, I searched &#8220;Armenia&#8221; in Google, but not having entered the second word, I noticed a window opened on the right which depicted the map of our country, its flag, and images of 10 places of interest. There was also a list of brief facts, including our national currency, or more accurately, currencies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 20.3999996185303px;\">From the screenshot below: &#8220;Currencies: Noah&#8217;s Ark silver coins, Armenian dram&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5830\/21084536596_7891fb3c1d_o.jpg\" alt=\"Armenia_on_Google\" width=\"467\" height=\"506\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I thought that listed in Wikipedia, which is the likely source of this information, are those currencies that were used also in the past. I checked; that wasn&#8217;t the case.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I compared with other states: alas, in one case, no currency was listed; in another, it was a novice country, which had that one currency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When I finally typed &#8220;Germany&#8221;, the result differed from Armenia \u2014 there was no mention of the Deutschmark. Written is only &#8220;Currency: Euro&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5703\/20923946139_556078e475_o.jpg\" alt=\"Germany_on_Google\" width=\"471\" height=\"457\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In other words, through Google, someone&#8217;s played a prank, apparently: if you Armenians are such an ancient people, if Noah&#8217;s Ark landed on Mount Ararat, most likely his silver coins are still in use in this country of yours in Ararat valley.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I thought, I should write to Google about the oversight, but two things held me back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">First, it&#8217;s a pity to dispel the romantic delusion of those who, seeing this information, will believe that there is a place in the world where trading is done with Noah&#8217;s silver coins\u2026 men get their barbecue meat with a bow and arrow, while women assemble grains for canning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Then, &#8220;Noah&#8217;s Ark silver coins&#8221; actually exist, only that they&#8217;re not currency, that is, not a means of payment, but commemorative coins that have purely investment value and Google&#8217;s reference will help increase their price.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But there was also a second factor: Google Search enjoys enormous popularity and perhaps in such cases, any significant changes should be made after a serious discussion. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Vahram Martirosyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Armenia&#8217;s international image, it seems, is the concern of all of us. We are offended when many foreigners are unfamiliar with Armenian history \u2014&nbsp;some don&#8217;t even know where our country is on the map. By the way, it&#8217;s my impression that we place more importance on knowledge of our history than of our geographical location.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Most likely, these collective efforts have begun to bear fruit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critique","author_posts-vahram-martirosyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}