There is an episode from the eighteenth century that in a way seems to come from a work of fiction:…
Culture
Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society (E.B. Tylor)
Superman Red Son, the alternative history of the superhero in the Soviet Union
As we know, a huge cataclysm destroyed the planet Krypton but a scientist managed to save his newborn son, Kal-El,…
A BBC documentary made millions believe that they could grow spaghetti at home
“Put a sprig of spaghetti in a can of tomato sauce and wait for the best“. This is the answer…
Delia Bacon, the writer who proposed the first theory about Shakespeare’s true identity
The debate about the authorship of Shakespeare’s works is not recent; it began about a century and a half after…
The foundation researching how to avoid gravity, whose essay prize was won by Stephen Hawking and five Nobel laureates in physics
A boy who witness his sister drown in a Massachusetts river and comes to the conclusion that gravity is to…
Saxhorn, saxtuba, saxotromba and other lesser known instruments created by the inventor of saxophone
Although, more or less, we think we know all the musical instruments, it’s not really like that. Throughout history there…
5 literary works, lost in the last 5 centuries, which could have been exceptional
In many articles we have mentioned lost works of antiquity, only known today by the fragments cited by later authors.…
How Humphrey Bogart homaged chess in Casablanca, and named a gambit
Many readers may like chess and may even be good at it. What is not so likely anymore is that…
The 5 cultural world shelters under special protection by Blue Shield and UNESCO
On May 14, 1954, the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict was signed…
The wrought iron bar chain that saved the Amiens Cathedral from collapsing
The Amiens Cathedral, listed as a Historical Monument in 1882 and included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1981,…
