During Genghis Khan’s rule, a tradition was followed where the most attractive women from each tribe were selected by Genghis Khan to be his concubines. Aside from Mongolian women, these concubines ...

In many derogatory titles that had little to do with the actual inhabitants of the area, Tartaria became the most popular term for Central Asia and Siberia in European sources. European knowledge of ...

Mictlan is the underworld of Aztec mythology, and it serves as the last destination for most departed souls, consisting of nine diverse levels, each posing severe difficulties. The dead travel with ...

A vambrace was a personal protective gear of the Middle Ages, part of an armor that protected the hands from the wrists to the elbows. The most basic, first vambraces belonged to the splint armor.

The term “Wunderwaffe” translates to “wonder weapon” in German. It gained prominence during World War II, referring to innovative and technologically advanced weapons developed by Nazi Germany. The ...

The heater shield, known for its triangular shape that tapers towards the bottom, holds great significance as the pioneering shield design during the era of living heraldry in the Middle Ages.

Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti, Count of Mirabeau, was a writer and a political figure at the start of the French Revolution. After a tumultuous youth marked by romantic escapades, he was elected, despite ...

Operation Overlord began on June 6, 1944, with the Normandy landings. It represents one of the decisive battles of World War II in Europe and is also known as the Battle of Normandy. After several ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Shaolin monks brought the Gùn (Chinese: 棍), a staff used in their style of stick combat, to Japan. In that region, the gùn underwent various changes before becoming known as the bō. During this ...