Romania has its own traditions and rituals on Christmas Eve (Ajunul Crăciunului). On this day, December 24, the Christmas tree is decorated, and the celebrations officially start. On this day, kids ...

This is the hollow on Tisenjoch where the well-known glacial mummy Ötzi was discovered. His location is shown by the red pinpoint. But the question is, how did Ötzi get there? A recent review of the ...

X-Seed 4000 is a 13,100-foot (4,000-meter) tall megastructure with 800 floors. It has a capacity for 1 million people living inside at the same time. The X-Seed 4000 is a floating “ocean city” off the ...

The Tokyo Tower of Babel is a proposed hyperbuilding in the city of Tokyo that is 33,000 feet or 6,2 miles (10 km) tall. The Tokyo Tower of Babel was designed as a new megastructure by Professor ...

What was the role and life of women in the Middle Ages within medieval society? Their existence varied according to age and social status, their place within the family, their role in the couple, ...

In many derogatory titles that had little to do with the actual inhabitants of the area, Tartaria became the most popular term for Central Asia and Siberia in European sources. European knowledge of ...

The European black slave trade began in 1441, when Portuguese navigators Antão Gonçalves and Nuno Tristão captured 10 black people near Cape Bojador in Africa and brought them back to Portugal to be ...

It is believed that before the first Mesopotamia wheel, the domestication of sheep and the use of wool led to the creation of the spindle whorl, which is a spinning tool with a circular flywheel ...

What was Hitler’s IQ? All Nazi defendants’ intelligence levels were tested at the Nuremberg trials and except for Julius Streicher, they were all much more intelligent than average humans. Hermann ...

Christmas in Singapore: Traditions, Celebrations, and History Even though only over 19% of Singaporeans identify as Christians, the holiday is still widely honored.

Shepherds and nomads first used the shepherd’s axe centuries ago in the Carpathian Mountains. It evolved from the specific needs of mountainous living and combined the functionality of a cane, an axe, ...

The crossguard of this weapon served the purpose of blocking enemy weapons. It could also be folded back, functioning as hooks for grappling with opponents, such as dismounting riders from their ...