Some have heard his name, some have not. But we have all seen or know about the Great Wave of Kanagawa, simply called “the Wave”. It is one of the most iconic internationally known pictures. It is...

Some 30 years after the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, the city with only 15 houses, has two majors, two postal codes, two telephone area codes, and two dialects of the Germany language

It might sound implausible, but deep at the bottom of the Indian Ocean lies the continent, which was found thanks to the work done by the team from South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand

There are math problems that remain unsolved in algebra, graph, Euclidean geometries, and many other aspects of mathematics

We are all accustomed to the regular type mushrooms, the champignons mushrooms. That is just one of the many hundreds of mushrooms

The phenomenon happens as unsuspecting stars wander too close to the supermassive black hole in the center of their galaxy and are torn apart by the gravity of the black hole

The central repository in the Vatican City, the archives contain the state papers, correspondence, papal account books, and many other documents the church has accumulated over the centuries

If you didn’t know, artists are some of the most superstitious people on the planet. Most of them have a routine they use before performing, or while painting, writing, or so on. With that in mind,...

At the height of his power, Escobar was making more than $400 million per week, and he built a large hacienda to show off his wealth. There, he had a zoo with exotic animals

We understand the poetry of our heart, but what else is there to know about love? Some of these facts will amaze you, as you probably haven’t been aware of them. These are all proven facts, with sc...

The Nordic Gene Bank stores backup Nordic plants since 1984. They do it via frozen seeds in an abandoned coal mine. In 2008, the bank merged with two other Nordic conservation groups to form NordGen. ...

Embellished with a series of knobs on each corner point of the pentagon, there are more than 100 of these objects found in areas that have been part of the Roman Empire

Washington Post reported few years ago that there are 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies working on intelligence, homeland security, and counterterrorism in the US

The fight for the right to serve in the military started back during the revolutionary war

Most of us consume chocolate as a dessert. But that is that all chocolate can be? Some people put dark chocolate in their chili

President Richard Nixon funded his first congressional electoral campaign in 1946. How he won so much money?

For some people traveling is a way to conquer something. They want more than just relax and fun

Nellie laid the groundwork of investigative journalism when worked undercover as a patient in a mental institution

According to a legend, a ruler in Ancient China invented the game of Keno, and used the money to fund the Great Wall of China