On this night in August of 1943, over 600 Royal Air Force (RAF) bombers dropped their lethal payload over the northern edge of the island of Usedom. Peenemünde was the intended objective of the ...

Felipe Birriel Fernández is a major figure in Puerto Rico’s history. At 7 feet 11 inches, he is the tallest person ever from Puerto Rico. He was never the tallest living person but this man’s ...

It is a club-style Japanese cold weapon known for its durability and reliability. It is a heavy and powerful club typically made of iron or steel. Like the rest of the weapon, the striking part of the ...

Under his real name, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavius, Augustus was the first and most famous Roman emperor. When his uncle Julius Caesar died in 44 BCE, Octavius began a long political struggle to gain ...

X-Seed 4000 is a 13,100-foot (4,000-meter) tall megastructure with 800 floors. It has a capacity for 1 million people living inside at the same time. The X-Seed 4000 is a floating “ocean city” off the ...

Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans. Image: Uffizi.it. The mendicant orders emerged in the Middle Ages around the 13th century with the aim of bringing a new direction to the religious life ...

Sendai Daikannon is a statue located in Izumi-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It is the second tallest statue in Japan, after Ushiku Daibutsu. The statue represents the Shingon School of ...

Hippias’s philosophical ideas laid the foundation for the emergence and further development of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism. Hippias is classified among the “older sophists,” whose names are ...

The weapon first emerged in the 15th century and was used in Turkey, Hungary, and the borderlands between France and Germany. There were three distinct varieties of the sword: Turkish, Hungarian, and ...

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 ...

What was Hitler’s IQ? All Nazi defendants’ intelligence levels were tested at the Nuremberg trials and except for Julius Streicher, they were all much more intelligent than average humans. Hermann ...

The Combat of the Thirty is a marginal episode of the War of the Breton Succession (1341–1365) that took place in March 1351 in the territory of the present commune of Guillac (Morbihan), located ...