The horseman’s pick was a one-sided protrusion on a cold weapon used for delivering a pinpoint strike. It was both a blunt and an edged weapon. The spike or beak of the horseman’s picks could be flat, ...

Here is a complete list of some of Ancient Rome’s most famous mothers, daughters, wives, and sisters. The life of women in Ancient Rome were seldom discussed by ancient historians outside of their ...

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, ...

Irish Celtic mythology has magical female characters such as banshees, banshies, and bean sí who are either sorceresses or messengers from the Otherworld (sidh, an original spelling of the Irish word ...

The Tokyo Tower of Babel is a proposed hyperbuilding in the city of Tokyo that is 33,000 feet or 6,2 miles (10 km) tall. The Tokyo Tower of Babel was designed as a new megastructure by Professor ...

How Long Will It Take to Get to Each of the Planets We are 41 million kilometers from Venus, 78 million kilometers from Mars, and 4.3 billion kilometers from Neptune. How long did it take various ...

Planned for Tokyo Bay, Japan, the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid is a massive metropolis in the form of a gigantic pyramid. The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid is 6,575 feet (2,004 meters) tall, or roughly 14 ...

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 ...

Ancient Egypt’s economy was based on a system of storage and redistribution of goods under the supervision of local administration. The administration, accountable to the ruler, managed the economy, ...

The atlatl is a device used to throw spears. It works by extending the throwing arm. The spear accelerates with this motion and reaches a speed of over 90 mph (150 km/h) which is much higher than ...

In many derogatory titles that had little to do with the actual inhabitants of the area, Tartaria became the most popular term for Central Asia and Siberia in European sources. European knowledge of ...

Mapuche People: The Last Conquered Native American Nation In 1708, the first group of Mapuche people arrived on the Pampas grasslands in search of trade opportunities for their horses.