The weapon first emerged in the 15th century and was used in Turkey, Hungary, and the borderlands between France and Germany. There were three distinct varieties of the sword: Turkish, Hungarian, and ...

X-Seed 4000 is a 13,100-foot (4,000-meter) tall megastructure with 800 floors. It has a capacity for 1 million people living inside at the same time. The X-Seed 4000 is a floating “ocean city” off the ...

Hippias’s philosophical ideas laid the foundation for the emergence and further development of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism. Hippias is classified among the “older sophists,” whose names are ...

The Lucerne hammer is a type of polearm weapon, which combines the features of a stabbing, striking, and polearm weapon. It was used extensively by European infantrymen from the 15th century up to the ...

The Tokyo Tower of Babel is a proposed hyperbuilding in the city of Tokyo that is 33,000 feet or 6,2 miles (10 km) tall. The Tokyo Tower of Babel was designed as a new megastructure by Professor ...

During Genghis Khan’s rule, a tradition was followed where the most attractive women from each tribe were selected by Genghis Khan to be his concubines. Aside from Mongolian women, these concubines ...

The Parma shield was a round Roman shield that was widely used by Roman soldiers from the 1st to the 8th century AD. It resembled the Greek aspis and played a significant role in Roman military ...

Here is a complete list of some of Ancient Rome’s most famous mothers, daughters, wives, and sisters. The life of women in Ancient Rome were seldom discussed by ancient historians outside of their ...

Yubitsume (“finger shortening”) is the act of amputating a finger with a sharp knife or tantō. This gesture of remorse, protest, or apology is commonly seen among Japanese gang members such as the ...

What was the role and life of women in the Middle Ages within medieval society? Their existence varied according to age and social status, their place within the family, their role in the couple, ...

The Ljubljana Marshes Wheel is believed to be over 5,100–5,350 years old, making it the oldest of its kind in the world. This ancient wooden wheel from the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) measuring 72 cm ...

Hans Albert Einstein: The Story of Einstein’s First Son Hans Albert Einstein was the oldest son of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić. He was a renowned Swiss-American engineer and pioneer in sediment ...