On this day Nostradamus’ prophecy by which he became famous and respected as a seer came true. He, namely, predicted the death of the French King Henry II with these wor...
Nicholas Girod was a French merchant and the sixth mayor of New Orleans, in office from late 1812 until September 1815. His former residence in the city’s French Quarter...
In older times, sea captains would sometimes keep pigs on board their ships. However, these animals were not meant for food. Namely, there was an old superstition that th...
Mac Bethand mac Findlaích, popularly known as King Macbeth, was a historical Scottish ruler who has been immortalized as the subject of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbet...
The series of drawn-out and bloody conflicts between France and England (each with various allies, such as Burgundy for England and Scotland for France) known as the Hund...
A hook nose, also known as an aquiline nose or a Roman nose, is characterized by a prominent bridge, which gives it the appearance of being curved or slightly bent. The w...
The familiar sanitation fixture used to dispose of human bodily waste is known by many names, one of them being “loo”, which is used predominantly in Britain. What’s inte...
Woolly mammoths lived in Eurasia and Northern America from approximately 200,000 years ago until around 10,000 years ago, when most populations went extinct. The mammoths...