The Scientists Who Starved to Death Surrounded By Food

Aug 15, 2018

The 900-day Siege of Leningrad during the Second World War was perhaps one of the most gruesome sieges in modern history. Hitler’s diabolic ...

The Strange Case of Kijong-dong And Daeseong-dong

Aug 13, 2018

After three years of bloody conflict that saw three million people dead, the two neighboring countries, North and South Korea, entered into ...

Bedale’s House For Leeches

Aug 10, 2018

On the banks of the Bedale Beck, in the small market town of Bedale in North Yorkshire, stands one of the most unusual historic buildings in...

Posthumous Execution

Aug 10, 2018

The execution of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw in 1661, from a contemporary engraving. Oliver Cromwell, the 1st ruler of...

China’s Ready-Made Urban Forests

Aug 8, 2018

Since the past few years, the Chinese government has been planting thousands of trees in cities across the country hoping to create an urban...

The EIRE Signs of World War 2

Aug 8, 2018

The recent heat wave in the UK has revealed more than ancient henges . Over at Bray Head, on the Irish coast, a short distance away from Du...

What Mathematics Has to Do With The Seven Bridges of Königsberg

Aug 7, 2018

Wedged between Poland and Lithuania, along the Baltic Coast, is a piece of Russia located 200 miles away from the Russian border. The Kalini...

The Grave of Florence Irene Ford

Aug 6, 2018

The Natchez City Cemetery in Adams County, Mississippi, is home to several unusual tombstones. There is one called the “Turning Angel”, whic...

The Underground Rivers of London

Aug 6, 2018

Where London is situated today was once the floodplains of the river Thames, surrounded by gently rolling hills and valleys carved by the ri...

Palace of Shaki Khans

Aug 4, 2018

The city of Shaki in northern Azerbaijan is situated more than 300 km from Baku—too far away for most tourists to make the trip, but is home...