This is the KVN-49, a black-and-white television set produced in the Soviet Union in the 1950s, and the first set to be mass-produced in th... | Continue reading
Before the age of steel and concrete, bricks and stones were the only two materials available to architects and bridge designers hoping to s... | Continue reading
Since the 1980s, the small coastal plain, some 30 kilometers southwest of the city of Almeria, has developed the largest concentration of gr... | Continue reading
These trees may look like they've been painted on, but these colors are all natural. This peculiar tree is called Eucalyptus deglupta, commo... | Continue reading
The landscape around Kansai, in southern-central Japan, especially around Osaka and Nara, is dotted by curious keyhole-shaped mounds surroun... | Continue reading
The life of a light housekeeper is always lonely, but for sixty years those who served the Stannard Rock Light in Lake Superior, it was extr... | Continue reading
Did you know that the peppermint flavor in your chewing gum and toothpaste, and the red-ruby grapefruit on your plate, is the result of muta... | Continue reading
The Arabs and the Jews have never got along. Since the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism towards the end of the 19th century, the two gro... | Continue reading
The relocation of the headquarters building of Indiana Bell Telephone Company in Indianapolis remains one of the most fascinating moves in t... | Continue reading
Some problems require ingenious solutions. The rotary jail was not one of them. Designed by two American engineers, William H. Brown and Be... | Continue reading
In the image above , captured by NASA’s Terra satellite in June 2006, we see some deep scars in the desert—the result of nearly sixty years... | Continue reading
In northern Niger, about half-way between the towns of Agadez and Arlit, and a few miles west of the tar road connecting these two places li... | Continue reading
Between Barden Tower and Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, England, lies one of nature's most dangerous booby traps. It’s a small innocuous-looking... | Continue reading
The Neolithic people of Great Britain were prolific builders. Just look at the British Isles—they are studded with countless ancient megalit... | Continue reading
Thirty years before the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl exploded, in what became one of the most devastating nuclear accidents in history, ther... | Continue reading
For the past five hundred years, the people of Rome have voiced their resentment against the authorities through a unique medium—short compo... | Continue reading
Rockets were originally invented not to send things into space, but to shoot enemies with. Their effectiveness in warfare was demonstrated ... | Continue reading
Few traffic jams are as organized and coordinated as the ones that took place nationwide in the morning of September 3, 1967, on the streets... | Continue reading
The year 1977 was an important year in the history of home computing. That year, the world’s first microprocessor-driven personal computer ... | Continue reading
Many say that the world’s first cyber attack happened in 1988, when Robert Morris, a 20-something graduate student at Cornell, inadvertentl... | Continue reading
During the 16th and 17th century, particularly around the time of the Safavid reign, the Iranian folks built a large number of towers to hou... | Continue reading
For many of us, the ebook reader was the next best thing to happen since Gutenberg’s printing press. The printing press made books widely av... | Continue reading
During the Second World War, British pilots were fighting more than the German Messerschmitts. They were also fighting against the weather—m... | Continue reading
The Lingotto building in Turin, Italy, is a massive half-kilometer long reinforced concrete structure, five stories tall, that once housed t... | Continue reading
Before there was the Internet and Google, the only way to find answers to a pressing question was to visit the local library and ask the all... | Continue reading
Green Bank, in Pocahontas County in West Virginia, the United States, is possibly one of the quietest residential places on earth. There is ... | Continue reading
The May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, a volcano located in state of Washington, was one of the most destructive events in the histo... | Continue reading
The 900-day Siege of Leningrad during the Second World War was perhaps one of the most gruesome sieges in modern history. Hitler’s diabolic ... | Continue reading
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, located just 9 km southwest of the city, is the third busiest airport in Europe and one of the busiest in the ... | Continue reading