For over two and a half millennia, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, have been proverbially ‘hanging’ over a murky region between a marvelous fact and spellbinding fiction. From renowned Greek... Read more
The 256 year old man, Li Ching Yuen: Myth, legend or astonishing fact? Claims of people living incredibly long lives have been made since time immemorial. Verifying them, however, is another... Read more
There is some mystery that surrounds the true origin of the Cossacks. Depending on who you ask, and when you ask, you are bound to get different answers as to who the Russian Cossacks were... Read more
Scientists say that a million year-long of intense volcanic activities that took place over 200 million years ago may have been responsible for the dinosaur evolution. To arrive at this conc... Read more
Queen Victoria once said that the only way you can tell how much you are loved is after you are shot at. And indeed the British monarch has had a number of occasions under which pistols have... Read more
If there is a head of state judged harshly by American history its James Buchanan, America’s 15th President. Historians don’t favor him in their judgment due to the fact that during his reig... Read more
This much acclaimed genius and Noble Prize winner was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. Via a flurry of papers and research, Einstein developed theories that effectively turned classic... Read more
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” is one novel that did not just bring Ernest Hemingway in to the limelight but also helped cement his reputation as one of the most respected American writers. But e... Read more
America’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS), put together during the World War II, was a revered national spy agency. 1944 was a year when it dominantly expressed its significance, employin... Read more
Born in 1864 as the second person in line to become the heir of the British throne, Prince Albert Victor, the grandson of Queen Victoria, actually never lived to that day. Eddy, as many pref... Read more
