If you ask medieval historian Michael McCormick of the University of Harvard what year was the worst to be alive,...
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Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled before and during the Second World War. Killed in gas...
Being a nun and living in a convent is one that requires extreme commitment, particularly in the 14th century. For...
How many tears are shed by peeling an onion? Despite this little drawback, the use of the onion is normal,...
Prague is one of the most touristic cities in Europe. It is a large UNESCO World Heritage site, full of...
You are not allowed to visit Pheasant Island, which lies near the Atlantic Ocean terminus of the French-Spanish border. But...
Deep in the rainforests of Venezuela, mysterious highlands rise to more than 2,700 meters above sea level, but seen from...
Someone said that the human beings knows more about certain distant galaxies than it does about the ground that lies...
A binding spell is a magical formula intended to “bind” or restrain a person’s will or behavior. Examples of binding...
Even if it might seem bizarre to modern observers, animal trials were commonplace public events in medieval and early modern...
People often vaguely refer to “the middle of nowhere,” but as it turns out, scientists have actually figured out precisely...
In the late nineteenth century, around 1880 the body of an unidentified young woman was pulled from the River Seine...
If we think of France, we probably think of the magic of Paris, the Eiffel Tower, the scents of Provence,...
Between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth century in England, there was a strange and fascinating custom called wife-selling. Married...
It was 1901, and Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts, thought of measuring the weight of the soul, intrinsically...
When we talk about "Wild West", referring, of course, to the conquest of the western territories of the United States,...
The two great rivers of ancient Mesopotamia, Tigris and Euphrates, rises in the Taurus mountains in southern Turkey, and after...
Corporal punishment has always been considered a deterrent for anyone who wanted to do something wrong. From antiquity to the...
In 1645, near the last stage of the Thirty Years’ War, the city of Brno became popular across Europe because...
In 1534, a man and a woman were stopped a step away from the exit door of Tower Hill in...
It’s known that in ancient times man used animals in warfare: horses, elephants, monkeys and even Rhinos were used in...
There is a small abandoned theme park in Seoul, South Korea, with a frozen carousel, fading images of ’80s pop...
It was November 13th, 1441: the curious people of London lined the streets to observe an act of public penance....
These limestone grottoes, located in Savonnières, France, in the heart of Touraine, turns everyday objects into stone and were used...
The 40,000 to 70,000 skeletons within Sedlec Ossuary (known also as Kostnice Ossuary Beinhaus) in Czech Republic welcome you, literally,...
If there were ever a place that could be described as a ship graveyard, it is the murky waters of...
The city of London was once the largest port in the world, and as such attracted its fair share of...
In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being that is magically created entirely from inanimate matter (usually clay...
In 1917, lot of patriotic young girls counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at a large warehouse complex...
Its technical name was "Piaggio Vespa 150 TAP", but it remained known among the experts and military history enthusiasts as...