#HISTORY

Here’s what we know:The Tragic EndCleopatra’s reign ended in 30 BC when Octavian (later Augustus Caesar), the future first Roman Emperor, defeated her forces at the Battle of Actium. Following this decisive defeat, Cleopatra and her lover, Mark Antony, retreated to Alexandria.With Octavian’s army closing in on the city, Antony,…

In Pennsylvania, USA, a local legend emerged amongst the local community that a haunting and disfigured creature or ghost could be seen walking along a wooded road at night.  After the story got more popular, people went out in groups to try to find this entity, only to find out…

Found in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran in 1972, these two skeletons have been embracing each other for the last 2,800 years. There are several myths about these skeletons. They are not a gay couple as once first thought, with the skeleton on the left being a woman and…

In Ancient Greece, Socrates had a great reputation of wisdom. One day, someone came to find the great philosopher and said to him: “Gossip is a bad thing. In the beginning it may seem enjoyable and fun, but in the end, it fills our hearts with bitterness and poisons us,…

Evidence of widespread  cannibalism was documented during the famine within Ukraine and Kazakhstan… Some of the starving in Kazakhstan devolved into cannibalism ranging from eating leftover corpses to the famished actively murdering each other in order to feed. More than 2,500 people were convicted of cannibalism during the famine An…

Native American Genocide: On July 4, 1776, the United States of America was founded with the Declaration of Independence, which openly stated that “He (the British King) has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages”, and slandered Native Americans as “the…

A foreboding cloud of black ash blocks out the sun from Europe to Asia. An outbreak of bubonic plague coincides with a piercing cold snap. Crops fail. Starvation, darkness, and squalor abound. All of these conditions were pervasive throughout the northern hemisphere in the year 536 A.D. The year was…

After being invented in 1947, the bikini was considered to be a scandalous piece of clothing and was bought discreetly until the 1960s when it became more accepted. The 1980s had a focus on men and women showing more skin, as well as men getting more muscular in the gym.…

This map shows the movement of an Eagle over a twenty years period . 🦅 It had the tracker fitted in Russia and it finally died twenty years later in the Valley of the Child in Saudi Arabia.  It is very interesting to see just how far this Eagle travelled…

When historians read the last battles of wars, armed conflicts and the social statues of defeated people under the authority of their occupiers tyranny they will be confronted by a singular social phenomenon – rape, Systematic rape. In 1915 Ottoman forces were accused via reports of having committing rape against…