The final straw for the conflict between 1914 and 1918 was the assassination of Archduke Francisco Ferdinand. He was heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, an empire that encompassed present-day Austria and Hungary, as well as parts of Romania, the Czech…
»> Fog is formed by the suspension of tiny droplets of water in a layer of air close to the ground. That is, the fog is nothing more than a cloud in contact with the ground. This phenomenon, also known…
ILLUSTRATES: sattu *Originally published in the magazine Adventures in History Using a technique called fresco, in which the painting is done on a mortar of lime and sand. As this type of work dries quickly, before getting his hands dirty,…
They are sculptures made by Indians, using figures of animals, objects and even people. For some tribes, totems serve to record the history of a group – considered a symbol of identity; for others, they are objects of worship in…
Just like capirinha, samba and Carnaval, the jogo do bicho is a very Brazilian invention, Otávio. This lottery was created in 1892 by Baron João Batista Viana Drummond, founder of the Rio de Janeiro Zoo. The intention behind the idea…
(/) Because these parts of the body are composed of minerals, material that is not part of the menu of the bacteria that digest us in the cemetery. These single-celled beings feed on organic matter – the material that makes…
It was a part of the femur of a megalosaurus – Megalosaurus bucklandii –, in 1676, in England. At the time, they thought it belonged to an elephant, which is how the item was recorded in the book. The Natural…
The basic thing is to overcome two forces that stick the “bichão” to the earth. The first is air resistance against the plane or any moving object. To overcome it, planes use propellers, turbines or rockets to achieve thrust greater…
10- VIRACASACAS Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806) When: 1804 affected: 430 thousand people Years before the independence movements in Latin America, a slave born in Guinea defeated Napoleon’s troops and turned Haiti into an independent country. Dessalines became involved with armed groups…
»> As Guinness does not cover this type of record, the best official record is the 1999 documentary Private Dicks: Men Exposed, in which 40-year-old American Jonah Falcon was measured on camera. “Peaceful”, his penis measures 24 cm. In erection,…