Category: Facts and Mysteries

On the twenty fifth of April, 1917, the British satirical journal Punch ran an evocative political cartoon. In it, a stern Kaiser Wilhelm II, wearing full regalia, stands earlier than a younger German military recruit. Declaring the window to a large manufacturing unit belching black smoke, he declares: “And don’t neglect that your Kaiser will […]

Of all main army conflicts of the Twentieth Century, the Second World Conflict stands aside. Not solely was it the deadliest battle in fashionable historical past, claiming an estimated 85 million lives, or about 1 in each 25 folks, nevertheless it was additionally arguably historical past’s first really technological battle. Whereas many now-ubiquitous army applied […]

If you happen to ever learn the Iliad, you may end up asking just a few questions: Why does the story choose up 9 years into the conflict? The place’s the Trojan Horse? Wait, they don’t sack Troy on this poem? Will Achilles ever cease whining? What about his heel? Studying the Iliad for the […]

It’s the final naval weapon. Lurking unseen beneath the waves, it could actually journey the world’s oceans at will and seem with out warning, unleashing a lethal salvo of ship-killing torpedoes or world-ending nuclear missiles earlier than melting away again into the depths. It’s, in fact, the submarine. However the stealthy, ultra-sophisticated nuclear submarines of […]

In September 2013, meals critic Matt Gross sat down on the Second Annual New York Metropolis Scorching Sauce Expo and ready to face a frightening problem. Earlier than him on the desk lay three small, darkish pink, shrivelled peppers, which he was to eat as shortly as he might. Gross, a veteran spice connoisseur or […]

A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and unusual information tales from the previous week. 

Can perception in one thing – particular person or collective – make one thing actual? Primarily, is perception in one thing sufficient to deliver it to life, to permit it to manifest and exist in our bodily world? May notion, fairly actually, even turn out to be actuality? Whereas typical thought says no to such […]

For a lot of within the exterior world, Sweden might call to mind huge expanses of pristine wilderness, meatballs, and furnishings, however additionally it is a land brimming with thriller and folklore, and maybe its very personal monsters. 

A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and unusual information tales from the previous week. 

With the collapse of the Soviet Union within the early Nineties and the next finish of the Chilly Warfare, a barrage of UFO accounts beforehand unknown within the West entered into the general public area. Certainly, whereas some restricted accounts had made their solution to the West throughout the Chilly Warfare, because the nineties unfolded, […]