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This remarkable undertaking was known as the “Svolte di Popolazio,” or the People’s Revolution, and it was a massive civic project aimed at improving the sanitation and infrastructure of Venice’s historic waterways. Over the centuries, the canals of Venice had accumulated layers of silt, debris, and waste, leading to unsanitary…
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Edison met this young man, Henry Ford, at a company party in New York and was thoroughly impressed by his gasoline-powered car idea. Edison, who had been considering electricity as a power source, enthusiastically encouraged Ford, saying, “Young man, that’s the thing! You have it! I think you are on…
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The branding of the syrup was a tribute to this woman’s gifts and talents. Now future generations will not even know this beautiful woman existed. What a shame. The world knew her as “Aunt Jemima”, but her given name was Nancy Green and she was a true American success story.…
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We’re told they had to melt them down to create ammunition for our fabricated wars What we weren’t told was these bells emanated a particular energy/frequency/vibration used to disseminate & broadcast aethereal healing energy from these temples & cathedrals Remember no architectural element of antiquity was just decoration. Everything held…
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This morning, on my way to work, I saw a pregnant woman standing by the roadside. She looked like she was in a lot of pain—she was in labor. She had probably been waiting a long time for a taxi, but no one wanted to stop for her. A few…
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Archaeologists excavating a site along with the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a massive pipeline nicknamed London’s “super sewer”—have revealed the skeleton of a Medieval man who literally died with his boots on. “It’s extremely rare to discover any boots from the late 15th century, let alone a skeleton still wearing them,”…
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The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in Kansas, United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Two years later, nearly a third of…
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Alipurduar, West Bengal, Feb 9, 2014: A man with a 14.5-inch hairy tail growing from his back has been hailed as a god by villagers in West Bengal. Chandre Oraon, 35, was born with a patch of hair on his lower back and has refused to have it cut, leading to…
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She was called Phillis, because that was the name of the ship that brought her, and Wheatley, which was the name of a merchant who bought her. At thirteen, she was already writing poems in a language that wasn’t her own. No one believed she was the author. At twenty…
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In 1945, in the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, a 10-year-old Japanese boy stood in attention at a cremation site, carrying his deceased baby brother on his back. The boy, barefoot and expressionless, stood in silence as he brought his sibling for cremation. Joe O’Donnell, the American photojournalist…