Most times when people are confronted with frightening prospect of death, they succumb to fear and react irrationally. Fear of death is what ultimately killed him. Edit What is “The Ring” about? The Ring tells the story of a cursed videotape. Another recent ring fatality sadly occurred on American soil,…
According to the Strategikon, the Huns did not form a battle line in the method that the Romans and Persians used, but in irregularly sized divisions in a single line, and keep a separate force nearby for ambushes and as a reserve. The Strategikon also states the Huns used deep…
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge In the summer of 2014, millions of people around the world took the #ALSIceBucketChallenge to spread awareness and raise money for ALS research. The challenge raised an estimated $135+ million worldwide, with $4 million of that going to the ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI). The…
Great Depression, worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world, sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions, macroeconomic policy, and economic theory. The depression was relatively mild: unemployment peaked under 5%, the…
Inca cultivated maize on a large scale, as it was the base for their alimentation, as for us European was grain and for Chinese people were rice. Maize is widely cultivated throughout the world, and a greater weight of maize is produced each year than any other grain. In 2014,…
With this and other evidence, 12 of the 15 robbers were caught, convicted, and sent to prison (none serving more than 13 years). One of the greatest ironies of the Great Train Robbery is that after all the planning, all the work, and then all the years spent fleeing justice…
The ritual, central Inca calendar, adapted to the ecological, cultural, and ethnic realities of the Cuzco valley, was the basis of the imperial calendar, used for the administration of the Inca Empire. According to the main historical sources, it was composed of 12 synodic months calculated from new moon to…
The famed Lighthouse of Alexandria, called Pharos, was built around 250 B.C. to help mariners navigate the harbor of Alexandria in Egypt. It was truly a marvel of engineering, standing at least 400 feet tall, making it one of the tallest structures in the ancient world. It was a technological…
For the most part, the Inca military was organized very much like our modern army. Based on decimal units a troop of ten men had a corporal, and five groups of ten had a sergeant. This order continued with officers overseeing groups of 100, 500, 1,000, and 5,000. All members…
Based on historical information, hummus likely originated from ancient Egypt in the 13th century, but that doesn’t stop other regions from continuing to claim hummus as their own. Everyone from the Lebanese to the Palestinians, Egyptians and Syrians have tried to claim it as their own creation. The origins of…