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Pandemic, probably the most written word of the past year. This word has taken over our lives, but how has history dealt with pandemics? What was the most deadly disease that ever existed? Let’s tell you some more about it. There are a couple of quite lethal diseases like smallpox and SARS¹, the bird flu […]
When the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933 with Hitler as their leader, the NSDAP (Nazi Party) immediately abolished all types of art that didn’t properly fit into their image art. They called it: “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art), and this term made a lot of artists being defined it as “Not good for the […]
Women’s right has been an important issue for a couple of decades, and it still is, but what if I tell you there was an ancient civilization where women had more rights than in some modern countries? The Ancient Egyptians were quite tolerant regarding women, many of their gods were female, and the divine femininity […]
Jacob Nacken, born Jakob Hudson Nacken, was a German circus performer who performed throughout Europe and the United States in the early twentieth century. He began his professional career as a performer in a traveling circus as a child, and he made his debut as an abnormally tall person during the 1939 New York World’s […]
There is a lot of misunderstanding about the color of Cleopatra’s skin. For many years it was thought that she was a white woman since that’s how she was portrayed in movies and books. Now, there are a lot of people who think that Cleopatra was a black woman. Some theories state that because she […]
Did you know that Hitler was obsessed with the occult? Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke published a book about this in 1985, called: The Occult Roots of Nazism. In this book, Clarke analyzed the occultism in Hitler’s ideology. The most important conclusion that he formed was that many of the stories about occultism in Nazism or a certain […]
One of the most unusual things about Russia is that you probably don’t know much about it. Russia has a very long and diverse history that most people don’t know about as the biggest country on the planet. With Russian Tsars ruling Siberia and communist regimes taking over, there is so much to discover. Here […]
Elizabeth II, also known as the Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, is the last surviving head of state from World War II. I didn’t know about this as I stumbled on a picture of the longest-reigning monarch and started to dig into this story. In this article, I’ll tell you when, […]
Adolf Hitler’s paintings are pretty good. Okay, they’re not mind-blowing, but they’re so much better than what I had expected after hearing all the stories about him being rejected from art school and starting a world war. But it’s a bit more complicated than that. He failed the entry test for the Academy of Fine […]
You’ve probably heard of Genghis Khan, he conquered many countries, killed a lot of people and raped so many women while doing this — but the thing you might not yet have heard of is the fact that a lot of those women gave birth to his kids. Nowadays, there are still people that are direct descendants […]
