Razia Sultan: Delhi’s First And Only Female Emperor

Apr 7, 2022

Tales of female courage and prudence, power and fortitude run long in the pages of Mughal history. Women who were daughters, who were begums...

The Corpse of Elmer McCurdy

Apr 6, 2022

What happens to our bodies when we die? Some are buried with grandeur in oakwood caskets, some cremated on holy pyres of amber flames. But t...

The Bat Libraries of Portugal

Apr 6, 2022

Bibliophiles aren’t the only ones that love hanging out in the library. Given the chance bats too would love to roost there and eat the bugs...

The 1866 Transatlantic Communications Cable

Apr 5, 2022

Much of today’s lightning speed communication that happens between computer terminals or between mobile phones located in different continen...

The Lake Peigneur Drilling Disaster

Apr 4, 2022

Near the northern tip of Vermilion Bay in the US state of Louisiana, lies a small saltwater lake called Peigneur. Although pretty modest by ...

The Pacific Island Where Prince Philip is God

Apr 4, 2022

At the other end of the sea from where Queen Elizabeth sits on her throne in England, photos of her husband holding a unique club rest safel...

The Great Conservatory of Chatsworth

Mar 31, 2022

Before Joseph Paxton built the magnificent edifice of glass and iron, the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, he built an enorm...

Can You Solve The Shugborough Code?

Mar 31, 2022

From the Caesar Shift of ancient times to a Nazi coding device called the Enigma Machine, the world before us left its mark in keys and code...

Scribonius Longus, The Roman Physician Who Used Electricity as a Treatment

Mar 30, 2022

Scribonius Longus (Latin Scribonius Largus ) was a 1st century AD Roman physician who served at the court of Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD) an...

Alberto Santos-Dumont: The Brazilian Aviation Pioneer

Mar 29, 2022

The Wright brothers are generally considered to be the inventors of flight, but in Brazil, it is their son of the soil Alberto Santos-Dumont...