During the rule by the British Crown in India between 1858 and 1947, tiger-hunting was regarded as a royal sport. The jungle beasts of India are ferocious, while the Indian people were practically unarmed and unwilling to kill most animals because of their religion. It is believed that in 1900 there were about 100,000 tigers … Read more
It reveals a window into the soldier’s mind, his experiences in a strange, hostile place. Over 200,000 American soldiers were either killed or wounded in the Vietnam war.
Leonardo da Vinci made the first extensive studies of the possibility flight in the 1480s. He illustrated over 100 drawings that showed his theories on flight. But it was only in 1901 when the first controlled, powered flight was first reported on newspapers to have been accomplished by Gustave Whitehead with his Number 21 monoplane … Read more
History proves that we’ve always been weird. People in the past used to do even weirder things. Below are 10 scary things that were used to be normal in the past. Cocaine treatment © KiloByte/Wikipedia Commons People didn’t think cocaine as a harmful substance 100 years ago. They can buy it in drugstores even without … Read more
