Banks and big businesses worldwide are boycotting hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei on account of that country’s new law that sentences gays to death for homosexual acts. P. Morgan Chase & Co., the…
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An ancient and highly-sacred Scottish tree, The Fortingall Yew, located on the Glenlyon Estate in Perthshire, is thought to be between 3,000 – 5,000 years old and possibly the oldest tree in Europe . Now, scientists claim it might be…
The Indonesian man who claimed to be 146 years old – the longest living human ever – has died in his village in Central Java. According to his papers, Sodimedjo, also known as Mbah Ghoto…
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Thanks to an artistic recreation, we now know Roman emperor Nero was a literal neckbeard
Roman emperor Nero is not remembered in a very positive light. There’s that whole thing with him murdering his mother, the bit about him killing his first wife, all that other stuff about murdering Christians…
The day when women around the world mark their own a holiday in Japan is a day of mourning, and the reason for this is that on March 8, 1935, the Hachiko dog died in Tokyo.…
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This ‘129 Ways to Get a Husband’ Article From 1958 Shows How Much The World Has Changed
How would you respond if someone asked you to describe the 1950s? Maybe you’d mention the Cold War between The United States and the Soviet Union? Elvis becoming more and more popular? The first satellites…
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RELIGION ROYALTY TRADITIONS Henry VIII’s Demon-Faced Horned Helmet Was Designed For Use In Parades Rather Than For Combat
Made by Austrian goldsmith Konrad Seusenhofer, a leading armor manufacturer of the 16-th century, this strange-looking Horned helmet was originally part of a suit of armor presented by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I to…
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The Last Country We “Liberated” from an “Evil” Dictator Is Now Openly Trading Slaves
It is widely known that the U.S.-led NATO intervention to topple Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 resulted in a power vacuum that has allowed terror groups like ISIS to gain a foothold in the country. Despite the…
Above image: Filmmaker Stephani Gordon records the encrusted cockpit area of the aircraft. The disappearance of famous pilot Amelia Earhart as she tried to circumnavigate the world in 1937 has obsessed many for years, with…
Artists impression of Titanic II leaving New York Harbor. Photo by Roderick Eime CC BY 2.0 Titanic II is on the way, but it’s not a movie. A replica ship is being made in China…
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