A small, hollow object made of bronze, the roman dodecahedron has long been a great mystery. Some of them are made of bronze, but rarely, they are made of stone. The dodecahedron has a geometrical shape and twelve flat faces. Each face is a pentagon, a five-sided shape. Embellished with a series of knobs on … Read more
Sexy mannequins have been a thing for a while. But you be surprised that sexy grave statues are also a thing. Are these tombs with magic powers? Well, one story from France seems to insinuate that. Today, we will talk about Victor Noir, a famous French person whose grave has given birth to legends. Women … Read more
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean, a feat she did in 1932. She was also the first woman to fly as a passenger across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928. Back in the 1920s and 1930s, there were not … Read more
On November 9, 1989, the Berlin wall was tore down. Starting at midnight that day, the East Berlin’s Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. And while Berlin tore down the wall, and essentially made East and West Germany one country, there are still spots where the … Read more
Science is full of accidents that produce great inventions. Something was developed in the lab by accident. But it turned out to be something great. And that is what Starlite was. A miracle material, Starlite was developed more than two decades ago by Maurice Ward, an amateur scientist. Ward claimed that the material could resist … Read more
Le Duc Tho was a Vietnamese revolutionary, general, diplomat, and a politician. He was the first Asian to win the Nobel Peace Prize, albeit jointly with United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. But he refused to accept the award. This puts him in a unique category of Nobel Peace Prize winners. He remains the … Read more
Mennonites are Anabaptists, a faith stream within Christianity. They are often mixed with Amish people, but there are differences between the two groups. Speaking of their faith, Anabaptism grew out of the 16th century Radical Reformation. Technically, they are neither Catholic nor Protestant. Yet, they do share some beliefs of both. The first Anabaptists separated … Read more
Lately, there has been an insistent call for Muslims to condemn ISIS. According to many experts and politicians, Muslims had done too little in public to express their solidarity with the victims in recent ISIS attacks. Additionally, Muslims are not condemning ISIS for its attack on tolerant democracies in which most Muslims live. All that … Read more
Little Foot is the nickname we gave to a nearly complete Australopithecus fossil skeleton found between 1994 and 1998 in the cave system of Sterkfontein, South Africa. The nickname was given in 1995. Recovery of the bones proved extremely difficult, as they were completely embedded in concrete-like rock. That is why the recovery and excavation … Read more
“Donald Trump is an idiot”. “The Cleveland Cavaliers are just too arrogant to admit they made a mistake”. “Madonna is not a queen of pop, she ruined it”. These and similar headlines have become the norm in journalism nowadays. “Just the facts”, and “facts are sacred” is no longer a norm associated with journalism. Some … Read more