Tagged: history

The coronavirus pandemic has been the focal point for almost everyone on the planet in 2020, but there have been a number of achievements this year for those looking beyond Earth. JANUARY In January, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered its first Earth-sized planet...

In this video, Polish artist Hubert Czerepok guides us trough his exhibition History and Utopia, a solo show at Arsenal Gallery in Białystok, Poland. Czerepok’s exhibition has multiple layers; one of them addresses truth and myth, reality and imagination, and conspiracy theories. See works like...

The map of Piri Reis, which was made circa 1520, achieved a level of detail of American geography, which according to experts, would only be achievable using aerial photographs. This incredible map challenges every single thing we know about our past, yet history books have...

There are many ancient heroes in almost all cultures around the world. Most of them are men but there are also female heroes still remembered for their principles, bravery and sacrifice they made for her country. One of them was for example, Queen Boudicca who...

Did you know that there are about three billion people who speak languages that all originate from one root language that was spoken about 6,000 years ago? Ancient language PIE is not a universal language, but it is the common ancestor of the Indo-European languages,...

One does not have to be a genius to see there is a lot of injustice on our planet. Rich people are getting richer and poor people often have very few possibilities to improve their lives. A historian has put forward a radical theory suggesting...

They worked in great secrecy. Their goal was to create a society without a King and Church. Their ideas were controversial and their members were considered so dangerous that the society was quickly banned. Some think members of the Illuminati are still active, working in...

– The Babolovsky Palace in Russia was built in 1780 during the reign of Catherine II of Russia (1729-1796) also known as Catherine the Great who was not only the longest ruling female leader of Russia, but also the grandmother of Tsar Alexander I of...

Amerigo Vespucci was born on March 9, 1451 in Florence. He was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. He played a prominent role in exploring the New World – he demonstrated that the New World was not Asia but an unknown new continent. Vespucci...

On March 6, 1521, during his fateful trip around the world, Ferdinand Magellan landed on Guam It was the first contact Europeans made with the islands and an important stop during the expedition that had begun in Spain in 1519. The traditional story has it...