The verdict was contradictory: widows could remarry, but the priest could not bless the marriage. Canon lawyers argued whether it was better to marry or to burn. Medieval women seem to have ignored the entire issue and based their decisions more on personal, economic, and feudal grounds. No official statistics…
The League of Nations effectively resolved some international conflicts but failed to prevent the outbreak of the Second World War. Why did the League of Nations fail? There had to be unanimity for decisions that were taken. Unanimity made it really hard for the League to do anything. The League…
It also addresses recent research that suggests that Lisbon’s earthquake risk today is driven not by the prospect of a recurrence of a 1755-type event—which is estimated to have a return period of between 3,000 and 4,000 years—but rather by the possibility of an earthquake of more moderate magnitude, but…
Thanks to graphene and nanotechnology, rifles of all kinds can be manufactured. Bar none, the best metal for sword blades is steel made from bog iron—that which has been found in bogs as apposed to iron which has been mined from the ground—the main reason being bog iron has silicon…
The extinction pattern of the last of the sabre-toothed cats closely followed that of the mastodons. As those elephant-like animals became extinct in the Old World during the late Pliocene, sabre-toothed cats died out also. Smilodon died out at the same time that most North and South American megafauna disappeared,…
It is unsuitable for making a sword or pretty knife. Then there’s regular pane glass. These shards can be very sharp, but tend only to exist in large but fragile broken shapes. you could create a shaped blade by etching the glass and breaking it out, but it would be…
According to Darth Sidious, Darth Plagueis was a powerful Sith Lord who was able to use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life, a power that was reportedly to be extremely rare for one sensitive to the Force to possess, and could even be used by certain Sith…
Technically, this asks if it is physically possible for the other person to help. However, it is commonly used to mean “Will you help me with this?” : to do something so another person’s job or task is easier I can’t do this myself. Won’t someone please help me out?…
A practical amphibious helicopter first appeared in 1941 and the water-landing feature soon proved its worth. Non-amphibious helicopters were required to hover above the scene of a water accident and utilize a hoist but amphibious helicopters were capable of setting down on the water to effect a rescue more directly.…
Here the argument is that memory can be distorted, sometimes even by therapists. This can influence the experience of recalling memories, resulting in false memories. Factors that can influence false memory include misinformation and misattribution of the original source of the information. Existing knowledge and other memories can also interfere…