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...
10 Weird and Grotesque Archaeological Finds
History is full of surprises, and archaeology allows us a rare glimpse into the past that often reveals more than any textbook ever could....
MORE INFORMATION AND FACTS ABOUT MERCURY
What remains intriguing about Mercury is how scant our knowledge has been regarding some of its key details until recently. For example, it was...
Sacsayhuaman
This site is located north of the city of Cusco, at an altitude of about 3555 meters above sea level, between the districts of...
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...
8 Examples of Evolution in Action
Evolution is one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. Armed with the knowledge of the interconnectedness of all life on earth, biologists...
The Mystery of the Geographer’s Adventures
The life of the German geographer and naturalist, honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Alexander Humboldt (1769-1859), full of extraordinary events...
MORE INFORMATION AND FACTS ABOUT MARS
It was believed life existed on Mars for much of the nineteenth century. The reason behind this belief was part mistake and part imagination....
Facts About Neptune
Neptune was not known to the ancients.
It is not visible to the naked eye and was first observed in 1846. Its position...
The secret of the soul
Representatives of different cultures have different opinions about how many days after death the soul still remains in some proximity to the dead body....
Ollantaytambo
At the northern end of the Sacred Valley, Ollantaytambo is rare if not unique in Peru. Ollantaytambo is a massive citadel located 50 kilometers...
Theories on the Formation of Crop Circles
The following outline is a summary of theories and working hypotheses regarding the mechanisms of crop circle formation. Bear in mind that there are...
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...
What Is A Comet?
A comet is a very small solar system body made mostly of ices mixed with smaller amounts of dust and rock. Most comets are...
10 Terrifying Prehistoric Sea Monsters
Some of the largest creatures this world has ever seen lived millions of years ago. Here are ten of the largest, most fearsome sea...
Skunk can think creatively
Representatives of skunks (Mephitidae) could create paintings or write brilliant books. At least for the reason that their abstract thinking is no worse developed...
MORE INFORMATION AND FACTS ABOUT JUPITER
What is even more provocative is the theory that Jupiter is a failed star. Current scientific knowledge suggests that if Jupiter had, in fact,...
Early Cambrian Chengjiang China Fossils – “A Window to the Cambrian...
The Chengjiang lagerstatte in the Yunning Province of China, also known as the Chengjiang Biota or the Maotianshan shales, is an extraordinary fossil site...
We are not local ourselves...
Gathering of magicians
Magicians from all over the world gathered in the city of Udupi, in southern India. Oddly enough, representatives of this amazing, if I may...
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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....
