by Thomas B. | Dec 23, 2022 | Art, Articles, Media
In the early eighteenth century, images moving on revolving drums and disks came as close to being a motion picture and these devices were called stroboscope and the phenakistoscope. The first known motion picture in the world is credited to Eadweard Muybridge who...
by Thomas B. | Dec 23, 2022 | Articles, Nature
The Amazon rainforest stretches over a huge portion of the South American continent. It is the world’s largest and most bio-diverse rainforest. Many call it the lungs of the world. The forest hides many mysteries. Today, we will try to uncover some of the surprises....
by Thomas B. | Dec 22, 2022 | Articles, History, Lifestyle, People
Cleopatra appeared in dozens of Hollywood movies. You can read about her in million books. There are biographies and historical novels, but also some science fiction. One thing is constant. Cleopatra is always beautiful and exotic. Women all around the world are...
by Thomas B. | Dec 20, 2022 | Articles, Military/War
The War in Syria is at a crucial point, with an air strike and foreign intervention from the West and the UK more and more looking like a likely scenario. The conflict in Syria is one of the most complex not just in recent history, but in war and military history...
by Thomas B. | Dec 20, 2022 | Articles, Food/Drink, History
In 2013, a new British Museum exhibition in London titled “Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum” gave us a great new extraordinary insight into the diet of the ancient Romans. What we didn’t know before was that back in Ancient Rome, take-out food was a real...
