The Mysterious Ice Rings of Siberia’s Lake Baikal — Solved?
Siberia’s Lake Baikal holds a number of world records for lakes – oldest lake, deepest, largest freshwater lake by volume, and subjectively, the world’s...
What Is A Solar Eclipse?
A solar eclipse is a natural event that takes place on Earth when the Moon moves in its orbit between Earth and the Sun...
11 facts about coast redwoods, the tallest trees in the world
Sturdy, stalwart, and superlatively statuesque, California's coast redwoods stand out as some of the most impressive organisms on the planet.
Before the 1850s, coast redwoods...
Crop Circles
Communication from out there or human fakes?
Crop Circles are large circles and patterns that mysteriously appear in cereal crops when the plants are several...
10 Bizarre Mythological Creatures
There are many well known examples of creatures from mythology that inspire dread, awe, curiosity or a even a combo of all three. Many...
Top 10 Reasons Bigfoot Probably Doesn’t Exist
The name Bigfoot is synonymous with mystery to many people out there; and after the countless claims – the sightings, footprints, videos and photographs...
Antikythera Mechanism
In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to...
10 Mythological Beings You Wouldn’t Want to Date
Due to the recent popularity of Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Twilight and Lord of the rings, we have seen an increase in...
What Is Darwin’s Dilemma?
“Darwin’s dilemma” refers to Charles Darwin’s bafflement that the fossil record contradicted what his theory evolution predicted. In his classic book On the Origin...
Kailasa Temple
Ajanta and nearby Ellora are two of the most amazing archaeological sites in India. Although handcrafted caves are scattered throughout India's western state of...
Who won the Battle of Borodino?
Why did the French fail in the Patriotic War of 1812? Yeah, you remembered about the "cudgel of the people's war" and the strategic...
The very first forms of life may have been more animal-like...
Early life may have been far more like animals than we thought, suggests new research that shows bacteria can 'develop' like an embryo.
When bacteria...
The Curse of old Wembley
It is not easy to find a fan that under no circumstances would have heard of the central sports arena of conservative England.
The real...
Pole Shifting
"In a polar region there is a continual deposition of ice, which is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The earth's rotation acts on...
Asteroid Belt
Leading models of solar system formation hold that as the Sun gathered itself together out of a cloud of gas and dust, the leftovers...
Parapsychology
What turns a mere piece of matter from being mere matter into an animated being? What gives certain special physical patterns in the universe...
Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan means 'The City of the Gods", or "Where Men Become Gods"
(in Nahuatl). It is located in the valley of the same name 30...
Top 10 Stars That’ll Blow Your Mind
No one can help but look at all the stars which adorn our skies and wonder, “what’s out there?” It’s natural to dream about...
We are not local ourselves...
The Kingdom of polar Bears
Bruce Gordon was lucky again, he could freeze without waking up, but he woke up. Trying to turn over on the other side, Bruce...
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“Confessions of the Son of the Century” by Musset
Musset began his novel in the summer of 1835, hastily dealing with other literary orders, and in February 1836 the novel was already published....
