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HISTORY AND CURIOSITIES ABOUT GLADIATORS

7 Jan 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Virtual_Variety

Good morning dear Community, today we bring a post of those who like a lot, as you know we are lovers of history, and we love to investigate those issues and historical curiosities that captivate, and are not so mentioned, so today we will talk about...

Why You Can't Drive From North America to South America

4 Jan 2021 3 minute read 1 comment Zirbo

While North America and South America are technically two different continents they are still connected by land to each other through the Isthmus of Panama. For thousands of years people have crossed the Isthmus of Panama between the two halves of Am...

Finding fantasy in Oxford, UK

4 Jan 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Edvardas

I am a huge lover of fantasy genre since I was a child. I think it started with me reading J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" while in school, given to me by my Lithuanian language teacher (Thank You!). So I was very pleasantly surprised when I went to Ox...

How an Airliner was Stolen and Then Disappeared!

2 Jan 2021 3 minute read 1 comment Zirbo

Back in 2002, a South African businessman named Keith Erwin traveled to Miami to buy an airplane. He and his partners had secured a contract to deliver fuel to diamond mines in Angola, but at the time there was a civil war going on inside the country...

2020

2 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Ghous

Hi there fellas. How have you all been? I hope in good health and spirits 🤗 So we stepped into 2021 brutally wounded by 2020, but guess what, we never gave up💯We have shown so much resilience to the pandemic and other after effects that followed it...

One Vacuum, Two Free Flights, One Terrible Mistake

30 Dec 2020 3 minute read 9 comments Zirbo

We all know that there are many small difference between British English and other forms of English across the world. We call them fries, they call them chips. We say cookies, they say biscuits. But what you might not know is that they don't use same...

The Weekly Summary - Learning Edition [Issue 38.1]

30 Dec 2020 1 minute read 13 comments tvlachak

Issue 38.1 / December 30, 2020 Learning "I never let schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain  Before spending a life savings for a college education, or worse by taking on massive debt, explore all the options. Exercise conscious choi...

The Deadliest Nuclear Accident That You've Never Heard Of!

27 Dec 2020 6 minute read 2 comments Zirbo

Central Russia, 1957 Villagers near the southern Ural mountains were terrified! In the middle of the night men claiming to be from the government had appeared out of nowhere. People were ordered to leave their homes, while the men went to work burnin...

The Lazarus Group - How North Korea Pulled off the Biggest Bank Heist in History

26 Dec 2020 6 minute read 9 comments Zirbo

When we talk about a bank heist, most of us think of people actually robbing a bank or of a team tunneling into a vault, but today that isn't necessarily the only way to pull of a heist. Back in 2016 a mysterious organization called the Lazarus Group...

The History of Cryptography

26 Dec 2020 5 minute read 3 comments MintDice.com

When people think of cryptocurrencies, they generally think of the 21st century, after all, it’s a new technology for most people. You may be surprised to know that  the art of cryptography, the idea of hiding language, has actually been around for c...