Sometimes we are at a loss for where a top 10 list should go and that means we toss it here. Sure, some lists defy categorization, but Miscellaneous is a category, right?
Humanity fought its earliest wars using fists, clubs, and rocks. At some unknown point in…
In 1839 Queen Victoria took the throne and ushered in the Victorian era that bears…
Considering that the existence of modern man dates back 200,000 years, millions of monuments, buildings,…
Archaeology has uncovered many secrets from the ancient world. But the Earth has a bad…
The 1973 children’s educational program Schoolhouse Rock! featured cartoons and catchy songs explaining the fundamentals of…
Since rockets were first invented, several thousand of them have been launched into space with…
Reading today’s headlines is undertaken at one’s own peril. The increasingly dire news is filled…
China is a vast country, and with the diversity of landscapes and historical traditions there…
When it comes to the hotly debated field of Biblical archaeology, the specialists who arduously…
Humans have believed all kinds of strange things throughout our short time on this planet.…
The word strange is barely adequate for some of the ancient leaders described here, if…
The Amazon rainforest is an absolutely massive patch of nature that covers 2.1 million square…
Pop culture has done a lot of work convincing us that serial killers are fiendishly…
From swashbuckling buccaneers, shrewd British Royal Navy officers, bitter salt pork, to climactic battles and…
Will we ever run out of gruesome, unsolved murders to explore? Probably, but not anytime…
The fate of nations and empires have depended upon control of the high seas throughout…
War is – more often than that – a numbers game. Unless something unlikely happens,…
Magic is a performance art that goes back thousands of years. The cups and balls,…
Warfare has always provided the impetus for advancing more efficient methods of killing one’s fellow man. History…
In modern times we commonly refer to the reign of Queen Victoria as the Victorian…
Europe is made up of around 50 sovereign countries at the moment. It covers nearly…
When we talk about the mighty empires of history, we usually think of the more…
The officers belonging to the New Scotland Yard have tackled some of the world’s most…
Criminals are pretty good at disappearing, more so than your average person. This is particularly…