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Artist becomes online celebrity after hanging naked in unsuccessful performance
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A Norwegian artist living in Britain has had an unsuccessful performance turned into a hit online video. Hilde Krohn Huse, 26, decided to go to woodland near her home in Surrey and film her performance as part of an art project. “This was a scene I wanted to include in…
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Pepsi was first invented in 1893 as “Brad’s Drink” by Caleb Bradham, who sold the drink at his drugstore in New Bern, North Carolina.
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It was renamed Pepsi-Cola in 1898, “Pepsi” because it was advertised to relieve dyspepsia (indigestion) and “Cola” referring to the cola flavor. Some have also suggested that “Pepsi” may have been a reference to the drink aiding digestion like the digestive enzyme pepsin, but pepsin itself was never used as…
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In December 1998, near the town of Lapedo, in Leiria, the skeleton of a 25,000-year-old child was discovered.
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A unique find because the bones also revealed that the boy was a hybrid, the son of a Neanderthal and a Homo Sapiens Sapiens. The excavation of the child’s skeleton, who was between four and five years old, continued throughout the winter and revealed a very well-preserved set, despite the…
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I wanted to take off my skin’: Ukrainian women recount rape by Russian soldiers
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The three Russian soldiers arrived at Victoria’s house claiming they needed to seize her cell phone. But they weren’t looking for phones. Victoria, a 42-year-old Ukrainian woman, told ABC News she and another woman, a neighbor, were raped by two of the Russian soldiers occupying her village near Kyiv in…
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A family of eight Inuits frozen for centuries are the best-preserved mummies ever found in North America.
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were found in Greenland in 1972. It’s believed the mummification process was accidental, and resulted from the region’s ice-cold climate. The settlement of Qilakitsoq, on Greenland’s west coast, is 280 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Archaeologists think the family died there sometime around 1475 AD. Despite decades of study,…
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Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
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Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia was so infamous for her sexual freedom Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia was so infamous for her sexual freedom that when she died from a stroke at the age of 67, there was even a rumour claiming she actually died while copulating with…
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The Morobe Province, in Papua New Guinea, is home to the Anga people.
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The Morobe Province, in Papua New Guinea, is home to the Anga people. Once fearsome warriors, leading terrible raids in nearby peaceful villages, today the Anga have learned how to profit from a peculiar kind of tourism. Anthropologists, adventurers and curious travelers come to the isolated villages of Morobe Highlands…
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The only h*ad of the dodo
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The only h*ad of the dodo The only head of the dodo, which went extinct 315 years ago, is in the Natural History Museum in London, where it is considered an invaluable piece of natural history. This specimen offers a unique perspective on the wildlife of its original habitat, the…
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The skeletons of five people with elongated skulls have been dug up in the Russian-annexed region of Crimea, sparking rumours of an “alien” grave.
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The remains date from slightly less than 2000 years ago and are believed to be from the ancient Sarmatian culture.A mother was found buried with a baby lying on her chest, with three more skeletons found under them in the grave.All had distinctive deformed skulls, and previous similar discoveries have…
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This is a microscopic view of a mosquito.
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While on the outside is seems like such a simple creature, God built it like a perfect machine.A mosquito has:A tiny head with 100 eyes exactly.In its mouth are 48 tiny teethIn its chest it has 3 hearts, each heart has 2 atria and 2 ventriclesIt has a thermal receptor…