New Zealand’s Castaway Depots For Shipwrecked Sailors
An old castaway hut in the North of Antipodes Islands, New Zealand. Photo credit: LawrieM/Wikimedia Before the Suez and Panama Canals open...
An old castaway hut in the North of Antipodes Islands, New Zealand. Photo credit: LawrieM/Wikimedia Before the Suez and Panama Canals open...
Many historical figures are celebrated for achieving great things but conveniently forgotten of all the terrible things they did to other pe...
Photo credit: 663highland/Wikimedia Inside the Shikotsu-Toya National Park, in the island of Hokkaidō, not far from the active stratovolca...
On the evening of August 31, 1939, as the last rays of the setting sun lingered on the top of the giant wooden mast towering over the then G...
The German city of Freiburg in the edge of Black Forest has a curious attraction—little streams of clear water flowing through the city in o...
For over thirty years a five story rickety wooden structure with long undulating staircases and haphazardly protruding balconies have been s...
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The Arabs and the Jews have never got along. Since the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism towards the end of the 19th century, the two gro...
Before there was the Internet and Google, the only way to find answers to a pressing question was to visit the local library and ask the all...
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In the beginning of November 1943, all residents of Imber, a quiet little village at the heart of Salisbury Plain, were summoned to a meetin...
The two great rivers of ancient Mesopotamia—Tigris and Euphrates—rises in the Taurus mountains in southern Turkey, and after flowing through...
Throughout history humans have learnt to live with gravity despite its innumerable inconveniences, accepting it as a physical fact of the un...
In the 15th and 16th centuries, a certain German family of merchants known as the Fuggers rose to become one of the richest and the most pow...
David Lyall held his breath as he made the first incision straight down the belly of a little mouse-like olive brown bird that lay on his de...
Far into the unforeseeable future, when nuclear war and biological warfare had decimated the human population, killed most living beings and...
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The United Kingdom has some 6,500 level crossings on their sprawling railway network, out of which an astounding number of them—5,000—are us...
Log flume rides are staple for any amusement park, but before they became thrilling fun rides, log flumes were used in the lumber industry t...
Bazoule, in Burkina Faso, is a sprawling lakeside village around 30 kilometers from the capital Ouagadougou, with a very unique tradition—fo...