The Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt refers to the emergence or reunification of the Pharaonic central state. The history of Ancient Egypt knows three such events: the initial formation of the ...

In 1450, Charles VII undertook the reconquest of Normandy. While a new English army lands in Cherbourg, the King of France sends John II, Duke of Bourbon to intercept it. On April 15, 1450, the two ...

The Battle of Aspern-Essling, also known as the Battle of Aspern, took place from May 20 to 22, 1809. Following an initial assault against the French forces in Bavaria, which proved to be a defeat, ...

On November 11, 1918, the armistice was signed, marking the end of World War I. The extreme right attributed this failure to the home front, Jews, Republicans, and the left. Anton Drexler, 1920. On ...

The traditional image of a Roman is that of a person wrapped in a white toga, proudly gazing at us from textbook illustrations or movie screens. However, as British archaeologist Alexandra Croom ...

Hitler’s IQ Level: How Intelligent Was Adolf Hitler? Hitler did not have a high IQ level like other intelligent Nazi leaders. His IQ was presumably in the range of 115 to 120.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...