During the Italian campaign of World War II, Adolf Hitler ordered the Organization Todt to construct a defensive barrier known as the Gustav Line (or “Winter Line”) in Italy on October 4, 1943. The ...

Henry Ford spent millions in the Amazonian model city Fordlândia ages before other brands did, and the city had amenities like a golf club, or a burger joint. Insurrection broke out among the ...

What was daily life like in ancient Rome? How did people spend their days in the Roman Empire? The Roman civilization was an unusual culture with some resemblance to our own. There are parts of life ...

In 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a doctorate candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived a few minutes late to Jerzy Neyman’s statistics lecture while there were two homework problems ...

The Mordhau technique, also known as the “murder stroke,” was a half-sword technique used in the German School of Fencing for combat with a long sword. During the execution of the maneuver, this ...

The Ultima Tower is a 2-mile-tall, 1-mile-wide structure planned to be built to protect the environment from excessive human development. The Ultima Tower is the tallest building ever planned for the ...

This kind of two-handed war hammer, characterized by a very long spike at the top, has its roots in 14th-century Switzerland. In particular (or at least mostly), the Lucerne canton of Switzerland; ...

Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg trials had high IQ scores. But Hitler’s estimated IQ is around 115–120, possibly above average. Hitler’s reading habit included over 16,300 books in his personal ...

The Sky City 1000 is a project to build a mega-skyscraper that is 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) tall. It was first proposed by Takenaka Corporation in 1989. The Sky City 1000 was formerly known as Tokyo’s ...

Our universe is composed of celestial bodies such as stars, planets, asteroids, and comets. All of these celestial bodies possess specific structural characteristics. They can also organize themselves ...

What is X-Seed 4000? The X-Seed 4000 is a tapered, pyramid-shaped megastructure with a sea-based location, inspired by Mount Fuji, designed as an artificial island with interconnected nodes, ...

The Roman pilum was a sort of heavy javelin used by the ancient Roman legions. The pilum probably has its origins in Celtic culture and was adopted by the Roman army somewhere between the fourth and ...