Our history is so rich, so diverse, and so interesting! What makes it riveting is the existence of numerous well known dynasties and kingdoms ever to have dominated lands and territories. But, all said and done, history is biased too. While, most of us will vouch for the mighty Greeks or Romans, or even the …
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Winning the Nobel Prize is the world’s biggest honor. Not only is one appreciated for all the hard work they put in, but their names are etched in history. The winners or the laureates are the best and the first representatives of humanity. It is a fact that Nobel Prize winners, without a shadow of …
Ancient Mesopotamians like the Akkadians, Sumerians, Assyrians and Babylonians believed in worshiping various gods and goddesses. Before Syriac Christianity took over Mesopotamia, these people had unique sets of Mesopotamian religious beliefs that included worship of main gods and deities like Ishtar, Marduk, Anu, and Tiamat among a host of others. It was between 3500 BC …
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Ancient Rome was the birthplace of a great civilization, that, like us, had its own sexual predilections. Much like the modern-day humans, they too had a fondness for prostitutes and brothels, loved being in homosexual relationships, and enjoyed marital sex to the hilt. Sex, in their times, was not a dispassionate affair. Instead, Romans indulged …
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It won’t be wrong to say that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is the coolest Pope ever! His modern outlook towards theology and religion has made him successful in involving the youth into religion. The Christian youth who had become estranged with religion have now found a connect in Roman Catholicism all thanks to Pope Francis. …
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Zombies are the latest rage in Hollywood, and are everywhere…literally! From appearing in horror flicks on mainstream cinema, to featuring in television series, books and magazines; these reanimated or ghoulish beings seem to never stop amazing us. But, do you know that zombies were created much before Hollywood patronized them? So, for anyone who wants …
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When was the last time you read about ancient Greeks and the lives they led? Chances are that you may have come across various posts and blogs, each unraveling a different aspect of their lives and culture. Ancient Greece, being a popular topic with most writers, often surprises us with its interesting facts, some motivating, …
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Where did the Vikings come from? This one question haunts each one of us that has had an interest in Norse culture and has grown up with many a riveting stories about their gods like Odin and Thor. So…for the answer…Vikings were seafarers who came from Scandinavia between the late 8th century to early 11th …
Ancient Greeks were experts in pottery making and used different types of potteries like krater, amphora, pilike, hydria, pyxis, dinos and pithos for storing wine as well as oil. Various archaeological digs conducted over the years have helped historians unearth and discover Greek vases dating back to 1st and 2nd century BC. And one common …
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The ancient Roman family life was complicated, much like modern day family structures that are built hierarchically. The father was considered to be the head of the household. If there weren’t a father, then it would be the eldest of all the living males in the family that would be given the respect like that …
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Norse mythology is rich, its vast, its intriguing and can take a considerable amount of time to study and understand it thoroughly. If you are a comics fan and are a die hard fanatic of Thor, the Lightening God, you would know something about the many riveting stories about Norse folklore. Norse was the culture …
“Rome was not built in a day”, is a popular idiom all of us have been hearing since childhood. And true to the words, the ancient Roman civilization spread over centuries from 753BC when Romulus founded Rome, till 476AD when Augustulus was abdicated and the city was taken over by the Goth. In a timeline …
Victorians took pride in their culture and yes, they loved being ‘prudes’. They had many set of rules and regulations to lead a proper ‘Victorian’ way of life which was basically governed by stiffness and weirdness. The Victorian era was considered golden as it had a prim queen who set high standards of moralities for …
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Dear readers, today we are rounding up the top 15 facts from Leo Tolstoy biography that you do not know, and will be quite surprised as you get to unveil some secrets about this ‘greatest authors of all time”. Leo Tolstoy was born in a Russian aristocratic family as Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, and is best …
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There’s something undeniably fascinating about watching things blow up. The monstrosity of an explosion satisfies our fetish for watching a destructive event. We watch rigged explosions happening in films, on TV, and even in some amusement parks. But a nuclear explosion beats all of them. Here are some of the biggest natural and man-made nuclear …
Scary…spooky…blood chilling and hair raising – Well yeah…these 15 haunted places in the world have just the required amount of punch to give you the creepiest feeling of your life! Haunted places have always been a popular topic for children’s night stories and we have all grown up hearing scary tales of ghosts and spirits …
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Pompeii, aka The city of the Dead is one of the most visited archaeological sites, but do you know that it remained lost for centuries after it was buried by the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD? The city is perhaps the most well known places today, but there are many unknown facts …
Eva Braun was not just another pretty face who latched herself to the infamous Adolf Hitler. Though she was a little naïve when she first got involved with him, but later she ensured to make a strong footing in Hitler’s life and circle. Historians consider her to be a great disappointment as she had no …
It won’t be wrong to say, that even till this day women are treated as second-class citizens in most parts of the world. However, the situation was much worse; women were not allowed to participate in anything, be it business, sports, entertainment, etc. Nothing has been handed over to women on a silver platter, women …
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The present is built on the past, and we, the people of the 21st century, owe much of our existence to the ancient civilizations that dotted the globe centuries ago. As interesting it is to document the artefacts and lifestyles of these societies, each layer spurts out interesting facts about the times the ancient people …
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