From classical antiquity to much of the early modern period — when there were no hard-written criminal laws — brutal tortures were a common method to serve punishments. During the middle ages, committing a crime wouldn’t have...
Have you ever wondered who the most powerful Marvel characters are? As an MCU fan, I am sure you do. But to be frank it is a herculean task to answer. The list below ranks the most powerful comics characters based on their raw power and intellect...
Do you know whales are genetically closer to hippopotamuses than any other mammals on Earth? They were separated about 40 million ago. Anyway, Whales belong to the infraorder Cetacea, which is divided into two parvorders; Mysticeti (baleen whales)...
By the total number of people killed every year, the mosquito is the deadliest animal on the planet. There are about 3,500 mosquito species known to us. However, only a few of them feed on human blood and transmit life-threatening diseases...
The age of space tourism is coming soon, really soon and it’s only made possible by the herculean rise of private aerospace companies. Both SpaceX and Blue Origin have announced their plans to put people in space by the end of 2019. NASA has...
The second World War has always been a hot topic for modern historians studying the prevailing political and economic structure of the contemporary world. Incidents such as nuclear detonations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the Battle of Stalingrad...
The history of roller coasters can be traced back to the 16th century when large ice-covered wooden slides were used as an amusement ride in Russia. The so-called Russian Mountains were between 21-24 meters in height and had a maximum 50-degree drop...
Earth’s interior structure [along with its composition] is one of the very first things students study in a school in geography/geology. It gives us a rough idea about the earth’s distant past and how life, as we know today, came into...
Since the establishment of space travel, only three countries have been able to launch humans into space. The first person to travel into space was a Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961, who orbited the earth in the Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961...
Whenever we hear the word ‘shark’ our minds automatically picture a large, scary underwater monster that could tear us apart in a blink of an eye. Credit to ‘Jaws’ but it is not quite the actual reality. There are more than...
According to the data provided by the International Monetary Fund, sixteen out of twenty nations that are sitting at the bottom of PPP per capita index are located in the African continent. Predictably enough, most of these countries experience...
The World Meteorological Organization recognizes more than hundred different types of clouds. They, however, can be sorted into one of the 10 genera (basic types) based on their overall shape and altitude where they appear. Well, the standard basis...