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Recently, the story of the woman who (had) her own mother murdered named Gypsy Rose Blanchard has gained some popularity again. In 2017, streaming network HBO released a series about it. Also, in 2019, a motion picture called “Love You to Death” was released in which this story was excellently portrayed. But what really happened? […]
In 2013 on January 31, a Candian student died in a hotel in Los Angeles. Her name was Elisa Lam, and her mysterious death has held us for more than eight years now because we still don’t know what happened. The last thing we saw from her was filmed on surveillance cameras in the hotel — she […]
In 2015, a new season of the popular Tv Series American Horror Story was released called: Hotel. Covering the story of H.H. Holmes who built a murder hotel to lure people into death. In the series, his character was transformed into James Patrick March. What happened in the murder hotel? The Person That Called Himself […]
Hermann Göring, also known as “Der Dicke” because of his stocky build, was a notorious Nazi leader. During the First World War, he was a celebrated fighter pilot. When the Nazis came to power, Göring became Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe. In 1939, Adolf Hitler appointed him as his successor and deputy. During the Second World […]
Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He became known worldwide with his work The Gulag Archipelago, in which he wrote, among other things, about the labor camps in the Soviet Union. When the secret service in his country finds out in 1945 that he has spoken negatively about […]
The communist Soviet Union was founded in 1922 and was ruled by the Communist party as a one-party state. Although the Soviet Union was officially a union of fifteen subnational Soviet socialist republics, the government and economy were highly centralized. Until its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union didn’t treat its civilians very well. It […]
The Roanoke Colony was an attempt by the Englishman Walter Raleigh to establish a colony on the coast of North America. The colony was founded on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. In 1584, Raleigh received permission from Queen Elizabeth I of England to undertake such a project, granting him property rights over […]
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 […]