One of the most significant military achievements during the Hundred Years’ War was the Battle of Agincourt. On October 14, 1415, the forces led by King Henry V of England, though vastly outnumbered, ...

The idea emerged from the ashes of World War I and World War II, with Winston Churchill declaring in 1946 that a kind of “United States of Europe” had to be built.

Rudolf Virchow: Pioneer in Cell Theory and “Pope of Medicine” Rudolf Virchow's groundbreaking studies on cells and disease progression ushered in a new age in medicine, for which he is now best known.

Henry Ford spent millions in the Amazonian model city Fordlândia ages before other brands did, and the city had amenities like a golf club, or a burger joint. Insurrection broke out among the ...

The Ultima Tower is a 2-mile-tall, 1-mile-wide structure planned to be built to protect the environment from excessive human development. The Ultima Tower is the tallest building ever planned for the ...

Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg trials had high IQ scores. But Hitler’s estimated IQ is around 115–120, possibly above average. Hitler’s reading habit included over 16,300 books in his personal ...

This kind of two-handed war hammer, characterized by a very long spike at the top, has its roots in 14th-century Switzerland. In particular (or at least mostly), the Lucerne canton of Switzerland; ...

What is X-Seed 4000? The X-Seed 4000 is a tapered, pyramid-shaped megastructure with a sea-based location, inspired by Mount Fuji, designed as an artificial island with interconnected nodes, ...

The shepherd’s axe is a distinctive axe with a sharp, narrow blade and a small, blunt hammer at the back, featuring a long handle. This cold weapon is still commonly used among inhabitants of the ...

In 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a doctorate candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived a few minutes late to Jerzy Neyman’s statistics lecture while there were two homework problems ...

The Parma shield was a round Roman shield used by Roman soldiers from the 1st to the 8th century AD. During the twilight of the Roman Empire, particularly from the 3rd century onward, this disk-shaped ...

The Tokyo Tower of Babel is a proposed hyperbuilding in the city of Tokyo that is 33,000 feet or 6,2 miles (10 km) tall. The Tokyo Tower of Babel was designed as a new megastructure by Professor ...