They are mythological creatures that appear in various European folklore stories. Although their origin is not completely known, it is most likely that the elves have appeared together with elves, dwarves and other beings from beyond in legends of Celtic…
– () With embossed letters and symbols carved in metal. The invention of Johannes Gensfleish, known as Gutenberg, allowed the mass printing of books – which were previously written by hand -, starting a revolution in Europe in mid-1455. The…
He was much like a carriage, but without horses. Called the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the German vehicle was the first car equipped with the type of engine we still use today. By the way, that was the only similarity with the…
(iStock | Jevgeni_Tr/) The Romans took advantage of an important pagan festival held around December 25th and “Christianized” the date, celebrating the birth of Jesus for the first time in the year 354. This pagan festival, called Natalis Solis Invicti…
It’s Nemo 33, 33 meters deep, the equivalent of an 11-story building! The super pool is located near Brussels, Belgium, and is used for tourist diving, training firefighters, military police and even underwater filming. In 1996, John Beernaerts, a civil…
»> It depends on what you consider shopping mall. If it is simply a place built for several people to negotiate things, the starting point may be the great Persian bazaars – the one in Isfahan dates back to the…
CRIMINAL RECORDName – Gary Michael Heidnik (1943-1999)Place of business – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)Deaths – two – (Felipe Martini/) 1. Born in Eastlake, Ohio, Gary was left in his father’s care as a child after he and his younger brother lived…
– (Disclosure/Reproduction/Disclosure) In fact, Mother’s Day does not have a commercial origin. Since Ancient Greece, there were celebrations at the entrance of spring, in honor of Reia, mother of Zeus and considered the matriarch of all the gods. But this…
The time we spend sleeping is, by far, what consumes the most precious minutes of our lives: almost 24 years of sleep! More precisely, an average Brazilian spends 23 years, 9 months and 7 days of his life sleeping. This…
Chester and bruster are commercial names for chickens with a high concentration of meat in the breast and thighs. Both are the result of a genetic improvement of chickens, obtained from successive crossings between selected females and males. It is…