On this day in 455, Valentinian III was assassinated. He was 35-years-old at the time of his death. Valentinian was the only son of Galla Placidia. Born in Ravenna, Italy, he was raised within a well-connected family. Both his mother and father were related to various noblemen and women. The family…
Within an instant of looking at each of these photos you'll realize that something is off, but look closer and you'll see that they're absolutely chilling. These snapshots not only offer a look into the dark recesses of every day life, but they show the way in which Mother Nature seems to be conspiring against us at every turn.These rarely seen photos are sure to shock even the most mature readers.
History may be full of wonderful and exciting moments, but the following photos show just how dark and disturbing the past can be. Even the most beautiful of these rare photos from the past contains something eerie if you look close enough.You won't find these dark images or their disturbing stories in history books.
Over a century ago people never thought the Irish would make upstanding Americans citizens.
Marduk God, after the creation, has the Anunnaki divided? Original article by Alessandro Brizzi.
For those who live with one foot in the future and one foot in the past.
Don't believe everything you learned at school.
The animal kingdom is a vast and varied group of creatures, many of which we’ll never get a chance to see up close. Thankfully, we’ve got plenty of photos of the most bizarre animals in the world to show you what you’re missing.
Collected here are photos of stunning architecture, fascinating archaeological finds, and landmark moments for major brands. Flip through the pages of history and you’ll find it is brimming with beautiful bursts of artistic genius, influential innovators, and revolutionary peacemakers...
The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research.A closer look at a medical research reportby Bertha Vanatian, AIR staffDo shoes cause schizophrenia? Jarl Flensmark of Malmo wants to know, and in a recent paper in the journal Medical Hypotheses, he explains why.“Heeled footwear,” he writes,” began to be used more than a 1000 years ago, and led to the occurrence of the first cases of schizophrenia. ... Industrialization of shoe production increased schizophrenia prevale...
Certaines photos sont vues par peu de personnes alors qu'elles sont considérées comme historiques. On vous les fait découvrir, maintenant. On pense avoir...
The Reichstag fire came amid “a campaign of unparalleled violence and bitterness” by then-Chancellor Adolf Hitler, in advance of an approaching German election, and it turned a building that was…
26 июля 1941 года газета «Известия» опубликовала статью, в которой говорилось, что «революционная бдительность — одно из важнейших условий организации победы над врагом. Пора понять, что болтун, словоохотливый человек — прямая находка для шпиона, вольный или невольный пособник врага…». С этого…
(402) King Sejong
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A 17. században Anglia-szerte megtiltották a karácsony ünneplését – de mi volt az oka a különös és szigorú rendelkezésnek?
(307) History - IMF crisis (I)
A review of the King Makers Daughter the story of Queen Anne Neville by Philippa Gregory. The review is complete with character analysis, synopsis and historical background.
From King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia who collected giants to staff his favorite regiment the way little girls collected dolls, breeding them with giantesses in the hope of producing a super race of giants, to Christian VII of Denmark, who could not stop masturbating and had a habit of slapping…
Thanks to Paul Greenwod, who penned The RULES and ORDERS of the Coffee-House in 1674, we’ve got the basics to keep you from embarrassing yourself in front of 17th century London’s most progressive socialites.
Mao’s last public appearance—and the last known photograph of him alive—was on May 27, 1976, when he met the visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto during the latter’s one-day…
Richard Lehmann explains why the Opium Wars are relevant to the price of gold today.
Most often the color palette that we associate with history is limited to black and white only. But have you ever imagined what did people, their outfits and backgrounds look like in real life - in color? Members of this one group on reddit, called r/ColorizedHistory, sure have: they pick historic photos that we have only seen in black and white, and bring them back to life by digitally coloring them.
If there was one thing that King Richard I, known as Richard the Lionheart, had in abundance, it was enemies. In April 1199, the French King, Philip II,
Rowan Atkinson, best known for playing Mr. Bean, has been recast as the star of historic portraits from the likes of Bronzino and Hans Holbein the Younger.
Napoléon Ier est le premier empereur des Français (1804-1815). Son empire s'étend, à son apogée, sur la majeure partie de l'Europe continentale. Ses conquêtes se réalisent grâce à de nombreuses victoires militaires. Mais trois grandes défaites de Napoléon sonnent la fin du Premier Empire...
From early English history, origins and language, a politically-oriented piece on the people, origins, language and what the kingdom has become that began with a few warbands from over the North Sea
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When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”
In the last two posts, we dealt with Baal and Ashtoreth and we will finish up dealing with them in this post before we move on to the rest of Jezebel’s wicked family tree. In this particular post, we’ll delve into the far reach of this false father-god
Let's take the VII from Londinium to Letocetum.
Mary I.,Tochter von Heinrich VIII., unrühmlich als Bloody Mary in die Geschichte eingegangen. Doch ihr größter „Makel“ war, dass sie kein Junge war.
During the 1980s, Yugoslavia was destabilized by an acute economic and political crisis. It seemed ethnic violence could explode in the autonomous region of Kosovo, with its sizeable Albanian preponderance. A critical political evolution was Slobodan Milosevic's election, first President of Serbia in 1989.
Approximate geographical distribution of the Indo-European language family today in Eurasia.
A shocking number of military leaders have suffered from mental health issues, even as they held the lives of the men they led in their hands. At times
Kovanica da slika govori više od 1000 reči apsolutno se može primeniti na ove fascinantne fotografije, koje su prava istorijska enciklopedija. Mi smo odabrali deset najupečatljivijih.
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Op 30 juni 1960 werd de Belgische kolonie Congo onafhankelijk. Ondanks de toegenomen publieke aandacht, blijft het koloniale verleden na 60 jaar nog grotendeels onverwerkt. De Black Lives Matter-beweging zet de discussie over de erfenis van koning Leopold II op scherp. ‘De verheerlijking van Leopold in de openbare ruimte is een vorm van symbolisch geweld tegenover de slachtoffers,’ zegt de Brusselse historicus Benoît Henriet.
