Among the Italian cemeteries, the Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa, is one of the most fascinating, full of mysteries and secrets, with...
Month: August 2020
August 31 – Some important events on this day. 1142 👉🏼 Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League...
Once every 7 to 10 years, a remote lake in Nevada experiences an algae boom so significant that its color...
August 30 – Some important events on this day. 257 👉🏼 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope...
Probably this is another thing to add to "weird things that happened in 2020" list: a locked safe with a...
We are in Sweden, near Västerås in Västmanland. Scandinavia is full of burial mounds, runestones, and any sort of ancient...
The Inca people named their empire "Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu and in 1533 it was the largest...
August 29 – Some important events on this day. 1350 👉🏼 Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The...
A dairy wagon in Virginia City, Nevada, made the news when it tipped over in 1878. The Territorial Enterprise published...
Residents of an industrial area of Olten, a town in north-western Switzerland, just few days ago, have been reporting chocolate...
August 28 – Some important events on this day. 476 👉🏼 Orestes, father of Emperor Romulus Augustulus is captured and...
In the sleepy suburb of Glenside, Adelaide, South Australia, rests a building long abandoned and protected from trespassers by a...
The biggest explosion the world has ever known (try to imagine: an estimated 13,000 times greater than the bomb that...
August 27 – Some important events on this day. 479 BC 👉🏼 Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Plataea, Persian forces led...
The Tar River flows into the Pamlico Sound after crossing much of the northeast part of North Carolina. It meanders...
August 26 – Some important events on this day. 1071 👉🏼 Battle of Manzikert: Seljuq Turks led by sultan Alp...
The Créac'h lighthouse, in Breton Tour-tan ar C'hreac'h (translated as Tour-tan: lighthouse and C'hreac'h: promontory) is a lighthouse in the...
August 25 – Some important events on this day. 325 👉🏼 Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene...
For many, cemeteries are macabre enough without any paranormal activity or ghost sightings. So here’s a Michigan graveyard that is...
The almighty potato chip, a culinary marvel in the world of junk food still today, has long been the number...
August 24 – Some important events on this day. 49 BC 👉🏼 Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated...
The town of Hyder, Alaska, is both the geographically easternmost town in Alaska, as well as the southernmost town in...
August 23 – Some important events on this day. 79 👉🏼 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day of Vulcan,...
We are in Yangzhou. The Chinese city is known for its graceful arched bridges, proximity to the Yangtze River and...
August 22 – Some important events on this day. 565 👉🏼 St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness 1454...
Kek Lapis Sarawak is a traditional Malaysian cake famous both for its intricate kaleidoscopic appearance and the grueling process required...
August 21 – Some important events on this day. 1192 👉🏼 Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de...
Each place has a more or less known heritage of curious stories, legends and mysteries, and Bologna, Italy, is no...
August 20 – Some important events on this day. 2 👉🏼 Venus and Jupiter in conjunction - possible astrological explanation...
Apparently, most people born in North Carolina have visited Blowing Rock at one time or another in their lives. The...
