The deadliest day in human history 500 years ago
An earthquake in China about 500 years ago killed 100,000 people in just one day.
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An earthquake in China about 500 years ago killed 100,000 people in just one day.
In today's life, sanitary napkins are no longer strange. But have you ever wondered when they appeared, who invented them? And before sanitary napkins, what did women us…
On October 1, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) celebrated its 70th anniversary.
For centuries, insects have been used as biological weapons to spread disease and destroy crops.
Solar panels are one of mankind's greatest inventions and their history is more interesting than you might think.
Before becoming the world famous gambling capital, Las Vegas went through a rather interesting formation and development process that not everyone knows!
History is a vast field of knowledge. No one can claim to fully understand history, especially the small details.
In medical literature, the origin of the syringe can be traced back to the early years of the AD. Since then, syringes can be made of all kinds of materials from metal,…
June 5 every year becomes meaningful and important to the environment around the world because this is 'World Environment Day'.
Newly published research on genomic data from 9,506 species, as well as examining 200 fossils, provides the deepest insight to date into the evolutionary history of flow…
May 17 every year is the day the world speaks out against stigma and discrimination against people from the bisexual, gay and transgender (LGBT) community through many m…
Harming or causing pain to someone, both physically and mentally, is unacceptable cruelty. But it still happens every day in life.
Over the past 80 years, air forces around the world have used five generations of jet fighters.
On December 5, Google changed the Google Vietnamese homepage icon to an image of the art form Don Ca Tai Tu.
Legend has it that a group of Portuguese monks were sailing to Macao when their ship ran into bad weather and they landed in Nagasaki, Japan instead.