2019-02-26 00:56
Mirin Dajo, which means "wonder" in the Esperanto language, was the stage name of Arnold Gerrit Henskes. He was a Dutch fakir ( Muslim Sufi ascetic) who believed that the Esperanto language… Read More
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2019-02-21 08:34
Mithraism was a mystery religion practised by the Romans during the Roman Empire; especially, from the 1st to the 4th century CE. This religion, which involved the worship of the god M… Read More
2019-02-05 01:30
Our brain is locked inside our dark skull without direct access to the world and yet, it tells us the story of our life. According to Steven Pinker in his book The Blank Slate, extensive bra… Read More
2019-01-25 04:57
Have you ever wondered why America, as a country, is such an aberration amongst first world developed countries in terms of religious belief? Well, the first major reason is that the foundat… Read More
2019-01-18 01:49
There is a lot of buzz around cannabis oil extracts from cannabis plants, particularly cannabidiol (CBD), which appears to have anticonvulsant properties. Indeed, the endogenous cannabinoid… Read More
2018-12-30 06:08
It is still a mystery how the haemophilia gene came into Queen Victoria's family, as this gene mutation helped to bring about the downfall of some of the most powerful Royal Houses of Europe… Read More
2018-12-30 06:07
Giant lions which were 25% larger than the lions of today once roamed about Britain. The fossil evidence from Yorkshire, Devon and London, also shows that these British lions weighed up to 3… Read More
2018-12-30 03:54
At the end of the last Ice Age, which occurred between 17,000 years ago and 7000 years ago, the ice caps of northern Europe and North America melted causing huge flooding across the earth. T… Read More
2018-12-26 02:23
Japanese visitors to Paris are especially susceptible to Paris syndrome, a psychiatric condition which is the result of finding out that Paris is not the city of their expectations. Almost a… Read More
2018-12-21 04:06
The seven day week was in use right back with the ancient Babylonians, around 700BC, when the Babylonians associated seven gods they worshipped, with celestial bodies visible to them in the… Read More
2018-12-17 04:18
Thomas Jefferson is one of America's most important and beloved Founding Fathers. He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States… Read More
2018-12-13 09:00
In 1862, Sarah Pardee married William Wirt Winchester, the only son of Oliver Winchester, who had invented the famous Winchester “repeating” rifle. This invention allowed the Win… Read More
2018-12-12 05:02
Monogamy is probably the most common system of marriage throughout the world; it involves one man married to one woman. Polygyny, however, is the marriage of one man to more than one woman (… Read More
2018-12-12 05:01
As we know from the words of the children's song: "In fourteen hundred and ninety-two; Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He had three ships and left from Spain; He sailed through sunshine, win… Read More
2018-12-12 04:55
Resolution and DiscoveryThe second voyage of James Cook, from 1772 to 1775, sought to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible and to try and find more evidence of the great souther… Read More
2018-12-12 04:51
The Earth, our home, is around 4.5 billion years old, according to accumulated research from many scientific disciplines, including geology and astronomy. However, While our ancient common a… Read More
2018-12-12 04:50
Billionaires from Silicon Valley and other rich Americans, are buying large areas of land in New Zealand in preparation for doomsday, which many believe will come about due to the collapse o… Read More
2018-12-05 02:35
Light from the sun is made of all the colours of the rainbow.Light dispersionYour eye colour is determined by the amount of melanin present in the iris of your eye. Melanin is a brown pigmen… Read More
2018-11-21 02:03
When Europeans arrived in the New World and Australia, the Indigenous people of those lands died in enormous numbers. Some estimates claim that about 20 million people may have died in… Read More
2018-11-20 07:26
King Henry VIII of England, was king from1509, until his death in 1547. When we think ofthis despotic ruler today, we may remember his six wives, of which one died, one survived, two he divo… Read More
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