Category: History

Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of the finest mathematicians of all time, although many of his discoveries were overlooked during his lifetime. He first received credit in the twenty-first century. About…

The deepest hole in the world is the Kola Super-Deep Well (in Russian: олскa сверлуока скваина), the result of a scientific prospecting project for the defunct Soviet Union, which was…

The Seed Vault houses copies of 1,145,693 seed kinds from nearly every country on the planet, with capacity for millions more. Its goal is to protect the foundation of our…

Sun Yat-sen, the temporary first president of the Republic of China, proposed the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze River in Hubei province in 1919 as a method to manage…

Area 51 has been cloaked in mystery for decades, so it seems to reason that the claimed extraterrestrial secrets kept within the distant desert location would be revived in the…

Thanjavur is home to some of India’s most prominent and well-known temples. This region is home to some of the world’s most well-known ancient architects and artists, as well as…

When we think of the Mariana Trench, we imagine a deep, chilly, lonely, dead pit. In comparison, it is teeming with life down there. Many creatures have adapted well to…

Anyone who has seen the Devil’s Kettle waterfall on Minnesota’s North Shore and witnessed the falls tumble through solid rock before disappearing has often wondered where the water goes. About…

The Kailasa (Kailasanatha) temple is one of the greatest rock-cut ancient Hindu temples and one of 34 cave temples and monasteries known as the Ellora Caves. The unique feature of…

Shree Visnnu’s Vaikuntna companions adopted avatars in India during the Dwapar Yug to participate in the Krishna leela, re-establishing Dharma for the ordinary people and annihilating bad forces. Sheshnag, the…