The Ultima Tower is a 2-mile-tall, 1-mile-wide structure planned to be built to protect the environment from excessive human development. The Ultima Tower is the tallest building ever planned for the ...

In 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a doctorate candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived a few minutes late to Jerzy Neyman’s statistics lecture while there were two homework problems ...

The Mordhau technique, also known as the “murder stroke,” was a half-sword technique used in the German School of Fencing for combat with a long sword. During the execution of the maneuver, this ...

The Anthesteria (ancient Greek Ἀνθεστήρια, translated as “Flower Festival”) was a festival in the Attic festival calendar. It took place over three days, from the 11th to the 13th of the month ...

What is X-Seed 4000? The X-Seed 4000 is a tapered, pyramid-shaped megastructure with a sea-based location, inspired by Mount Fuji, designed as an artificial island with interconnected nodes, ...

In Arabic, Islam means “submission to God,” and a Muslim is a person “devoted to God.” Like Jews and Christians, Muslims are monotheists. They believe there is only one God who created the world and ...

What was daily life like in ancient Rome? How did people spend their days in the Roman Empire? The Roman civilization was an unusual culture with some resemblance to our own. There are parts of life ...

The Genghis Khan Statue is the tallest equestrian statue in the world (the term refers to a mounted horseman). The 131-foot-tall statue lies 33 miles (54 km) southeast of Mongolia’s capital, ...

Henry Ford spent millions in the Amazonian model city Fordlândia ages before other brands did, and the city had amenities like a golf club, or a burger joint. Insurrection broke out among the ...

The Roman pilum was a sort of heavy javelin used by the ancient Roman legions. The pilum probably has its origins in Celtic culture and was adopted by the Roman army somewhere between the fourth and ...

Cavalry on ancient battlefields introduced a new element, proving useful both in reconnaissance and pursuing defeated enemies. The term “cavalry” is quite broad and includes war horses, donkeys, ...

Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg trials had high IQ scores. But Hitler’s estimated IQ is around 115–120, possibly above average. Hitler’s reading habit included over 16,300 books in his personal ...