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The largest Gothic castle in the world - Malbork Castle in Poland

5 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Next to the Order of Knights Hospitaller and Templars, it was a symbol of the power of the Order of the Hospital of the Holy Virgin Mary of the German House in Jerusalem. It is the most powerful fortress of medieval Europe and an example of...

Exploring Espionage: The Thing

5 Jul 2025 4 minute read 3 comments Investigator515

The Soviet-designed “thing” was god-tier levels of surveillance wizardry. In a world full of computers, if you’re younger, it’s often hard to picture a world where they didn’t exist at the same levels that we see today. In the post-WW2 years, though,...

2022: an epic summer continues

4 Jul 2025 12 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey

  July 11 Emma walks through back door saying she feels like a “sack of meat” after long day. I came across Firestarter today, in my boxes of books, and give it to her to read – she seems excited. I make this creamy ravioli from Dinnerly...

What The Tech?! The Graphics Card

30 Jun 2025 5 minute read 2 comments Investigator515

We’ve come a long way since the inkpot. And while the typewriter would give us legitimate work processing capabilities, it would take personal computers to truly supercharge our productivity. When we had computers, though, we decided we needed more....

Who Betrayed Who First?

29 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

  I have previously covered four undesigned coincidences that together show that the miraculous feeding of the five thousand that is retold in all four Gospels is a historical event; Why Philip?, Green Grass and Miracles, Counting to a Miracle, and T...

An unusual temple in Kyoto - Fushimi Inari Taisha - Tori gates and sacred foxes

28 Jun 2025 2 minute read 0 comments madventure

  It is a place that cannot be missed while visiting Japan in the city of Kyoto. Most folders or websites advertise this place as the top 5 must-visit places in Japan. And it is true. We often get disappointed when visiting overrated monuments,...

Are We Smarter Than Our Ancestors? Time to Prove It

27 Jun 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Bhatt_G

A lot has happened in history, and all of them are fresh voices somewhere. Yes, all the pages of history are presented to us in a distorted manner, but there is some truth somewhere. Often we say somewhere that history is a witness, then what does it...

The Royal Castle in Chęciny from a bird's eye

26 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  A brief history of the castle The Royal Castle in Chęciny, probably at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. It was built on a hill that is 367 m above sea level. The construction was initiated by the king of Poland and Bohemia - Wacła...

What The Tech?! The Centrifuge

24 Jun 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Centrifuges would play a key role in developing the defence and medical sectors. When you’re writing about technology, you’ll often be looking at and talking about very obvious and visible pieces of technology. While many people often won’t fully und...

Vital knowledge of German history and experience

23 Jun 2025 9 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aFmYS89sGhUbWTvF No monuments or memorials can convey the enormity of military losses, or truly perpetuate the myriads of senseless victims. The best memory for them is the truth about the war,...