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What really sets Game of Thrones, or A Song of Ice and Fire (the actual…
Everyone but the biggest knuckle-dragging Neanderthal agrees that learning another language is a good thing.…
Throughout history, a nation or empire is only as strong as its military forces. Growth…
As Mark Twain famously put it, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” And so it is with…
One thing humans have always done is hurt and fight each other. Over the thousands…
The further back we look through history, the more diverse the people are. This isn’t…
The board game market is one of the toughest to break into. Thousands of games…
We were all taught things in school—or, at very least, in the schoolyard—that we accepted…
For thousands of years now humans have been doing their best to record the history…
Up until the time of Christopher Columbus, the world was divided in two, both geographically…
The old gods in their many shapes and sizes are as diverse as the people…
Giving someone a second chance, especially if they’ve done something horrendous, is a complicated issue.…
Slavery appeared alongside the agricultural revolution some 12,000 years ago, when humanity went from hunting…
New York City is a world capital in every sense of the word — it’s…
You’d see a lot of changes when looking at a map of present day Europe…
A city becomes “lost” when it is abandoned by its inhabitants and left to decay.…
Throughout human history, people have taken advantage of animals and used them as aids in…
Myths and legends are the cornerstones of civilizations. They are stories passed down from generation…
TopTenz is a PG site, and naughty words are strictly forbidden. But words that only SOUND naughty are not only perfectly acceptable, they get a whole article written about them. And it’s this one! What a fecking coincidence!
There’s a good reason the sight of a Viking longship struck fear in the hearts…
For over a hundred years since the first decade of the twentieth century, Father’s Day…
While Christopher Columbus did eventually arrive in the Americas, there were many others who probably got there before him.
There are some things in life that everybody just knows, like where the Eiffel Tower…