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  • Why the Moon Looks Bigger on the Horizon

    This is a question that has been debated for several thousand years. One popular myth, dating all the way back to Aristotle in the 4th century BC and which still endures somewhat today, is that it is simply a case of magnification caused by the Earth’s

  • Lost Villages and Shipwrecks on Scotland’s Myste

    For thousands of years, human beings have successfully adapted to their environments and coped with some of the toughest challenges that nature could throw their way. But some places are just so wild that after several millennia, hardy settlers have litt

  • Menton the City of Lemons - Not Miss Amazing Lemon

    The Lemon Festival (”Fete du Citron“) in Menton this year had a really interesting way to celebrate the lemons and oranges – thousands of fruits were used to create several creative sculptures and mosaics, all having as theme the cinema.

  • Mythical Temple Found in Peru

    A thousand-year-old temple complex (including a tomb with human sacrifice victims, shown in a digital illustration) has been found under the windswept dunes of northwestern Peru.

  • Chand Baori, The World’s Deepest Step Well

    One of such architectural complexes is this amazing step well, called Chand Baori, which is located in village of Abhaneri near Jaipur. This step well was built more than a thousand years ago.

  • Another Stonehenge Discovered Under Lake Michigan?

    A group of researchers using sonar to find shipwrecks on the bottom of Lake Michigan have found something far older than crashed cargo ships. They believe they've found a 10-thousand-year-old stone structure like Stonehenge,

  • Is Bee Venom a Cure

    While most people would avoid contact with bees, in Beijing, China, patients are lining up outside hospitals to receive bee sting therapy, a practice which dates back over three thousand years! The process involves placing live bees on a patient’s body

  • Ancient Rome again in Rome

    The city of Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber river within the Lazio region of Italy. Rome’s history spans over two and a half thousand years.

  • Ten Dormant Volcanoes Around the World

    Clearly, the line between dormant and active can change at any moment. The definitions of these terms vary, even among volcanologists: some say “active” means eruption within the past ten thousand years, while others define it as activity within histo

  • Ancient History in Cool Picto-Charts

    A picture can be worth a thousand words, or in this case a thousand years. This post features a collection of pictographic charts that follow periods of ancient history. The picture timelines show important events, symbols and famous people from each peri

  • 40 Futurama Inspired Artworks

    Futurama is an animated show created by Matt Groening (of The Simpsons). The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for a thousand years, find

  • Viking Festival in Spain

    In the north-west Spain in the village Catoira there is crazy Vikings festival , which is purpose to recall the attack on the Spanish land by the Vikings a thousand years ago. Traditionally Vikings Festival is held on the first Sunday in August.

  • Traditional Cormorant Fishing

    Cormorant fishing has been practiced in China for more than a thousand years (Hoh 2000). Although cormorants are also used to fish in Japan.

  • Majic Of Acupuncture

    Clear records of acupuncture’s usage date back two thousand years, but some historians argue that it’s been practiced for twice that long. Either way, it’s undoubtedly older than much of what we take to be medical gospel—anesthesia, vaccines, and

  • 10 Toilet Facts You Might Not Know

    The oldest indoor flush toilet belonged to King Minos of Crete – who ruled from his porcelain throne more than 28 thousand years ago!

  • Oldest Trees In The World

    Here you can see some of the oldest trees in the world, some of them are on Earth for a thousands years.

  • Hidden Symbols in Movies

    There is irrefutable evidence of many of the newest scientific discoveries actually being around almost a thousand years ago.

  • Doll's Life

    Alexander Kukinova - artist-puppeteer. Her dolls are famous all over the world and is decorated with collections of many celebrities. These dolls are worth several thousand dollars. Dolls are made of special porcelain. All costumes are sewn only from expe

  • 10 Books That Changed People’s Way of Thinking

    There’s no doubt that the Bible has influenced the world more than any other book ever published. It created religion which control about one third of the world for two thousand years. It comprises two books: the Old Testament, used by Christ and the ap

  • European History in 5 Minutes (video)

    This video shows the evolution of European country's borders during the past thousand years, all in only five minutes.


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