In 2024, air temperatures and ocean temperatures once again reached record highs. According to climate researchers, ocean ...

The guisarme was widely used in Europe as a defensive tool against bandits and wild animals and as an aggressive weapon in times of war. The French word “guisarme”, which was borrowed into English, ...

Historically associated with displeasured overtones, the image of giantesses in popular culture has evolved to reflect shifting cultural views on women's assertiveness. The name “Gigantes” is used to ...

A typical spadone weighed 5.7 lbs (2.6 kg) and had a length of up to 79 inches (200 cm). Spadone was used between the 15th and 17th centuries, most notably in the Swabian War (1499), Italian Wars ...

Mictecacihuatl is meant to keep vigil over the remains of the dead. The Aztecs celebrated festivities in her honor and she was given the name "Lady of Death." A drawing of Mictecacihuatl, one of the ...

The French Invasion of Russia in 1812 was a military campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte and the Grande Armée against the Russian Empire. It was a major part of the Napoleonic Wars. The French Army ...

You would use the lantern to blind your opponents at dawn or during nighttime battles, and it would hook onto the shield part. This is one of the few attacking shield designs. The blades of the ...

For Bulgarians, Christmas has deep religious and familial traditions. Despite being Eastern Orthodox, they celebrate the day on December 25th. The most current census, taken in 2021, shows that 70% of ...

The patient lies supine within the iron lung, which is a horizontal cylinder sealed off from the outside and connected to an air pump. Paul Richard Alexander in his iron lung. (Image: Special Books by ...

A wheeled bull figurine from 3950–3650 BC was discovered in Europe, and it is the oldest identified object that has a wheel. The origin and invention of the wheel can be traced back to our natural ...

The Christmas season in Romania begins on December 6, on Saint Nicholas’s day, and ends on January 7, with the celebration of Saint John. Despite the Orthodox population, they celebrate Christmas on ...

Adolf Hitler was a bookworm. Even as a World War I soldier, he chose to spend what little money he had on books rather than on whores and cigarettes. Adolf Hitler was a bookworm. Even as a World War I ...