Historical

The Extraordinary Story of the Race to Reach the South Pole
In 1911, two teams of five scientists assembled; today would be the start of the race to reach the South Pole. Both teams had contrastingly different strategies. The British team would push as hard as they could every day.
By Sam H Arnold3 years ago in FYI
The Most Notorious Scientific Hoax in History
It Was a Masterful Hoax The human psyche craves for recognition. We all love that dopamine rush that overwhelms us when we are appreciated for our abilities, attitude, or even our appearance. It is natural, nothing wrong with it.
By Peeping_Soul3 years ago in FYI
Embarrassed or not? The alien signal that scientists have been tracking for 17 years came from a microwave oven on Earth
Astronomers worked hard on a signal for 17 years, with hundreds of papers published, only to discover that it was a signal from a microwave oven!
By Richard Shurwood3 years ago in FYI
Animal mating six relatives, stray male lions grow up, if the mother how to do?
However, the animals are driven out, wandering around for a few years, back to their birthplace, in case they meet their parents or siblings, driven by instinct to mating what to do.
By Richard Shurwood3 years ago in FYI
THE RATIONAL MORAL STATUS OF NON-HUMAN NATURAL PHENOMENON
ABSTRACT The survival of the human being, which is known as a being of consciousness depends in the healthy interaction and interrelation of variety of living and non-living organisms, empirical and supra-empirical realities in the Universe. These interactions calls for a unified coexistence of these realities. Hence, in some degree, the human person feels he has no direct moral obligations to non-rational, non-human nature, only rational beings are worth of moral considerability as Kant affirms. This will be argued as an excessively anthropocentric, and excludes the non-human natural world from the sphere of moral considerability. Conceding to the fact that non- human nature is instrumentally valuable to some extent, to some inevitable existential, ontological consideration.
By Flagler Danzig3 years ago in FYI
The Queen's head diamond can smash people's brains out?
The crown on the head of the recently deceased Queen Elizabeth II, inlaid with a large diamond, named Kohl-i-Door, is the English translation of the Indian language, the Chinese name is "Mountain of Light".
By Egg Lemmon3 years ago in FYI
The mystery of the Thar's 500 tons of gold
Lake Baikal triggered the search for the Tsarist Admiral Cossack who led a troop to escort an armored train from Omsk to retreat along the Great Siberian Railway to the northeastern border of China on November 13, 1919. According to informed sources, the heavily guarded train was loaded with 500 tons of gold that the Tsar had seized from the people.
By Copperchaleu3 years ago in FYI
15 Facts about the Queen Elizabeth II
Her young adult years were filled with preparations for her future role as monarch. She studied French, German, and music. She also raced pigeons. Her most famous pet was the corgi. In addition to all of this, Elizabeth also owned every swan, whale, and dolphin found in British waters.
By Muhammad Yousuf Farooq3 years ago in FYI
Nepal invaded the Qing Dynasty in its heyday and was defeated by Qianlong, and Hexi was also a hero in the counter-insurgency.
Although the Suzerain-vassal system centered on the Chinese Central Plains dynasties began in the eastern frontier, it ended in the western frontier. In the eyes of historians, the title of "the last vassal state" of the Qing Dynasty is somewhat controversial, one is Kanjuti in Central Asia, because it still paid tribute to the Qing court during the reign of Xuantong, and the other was Nepal. It was not until the British launched the "Ronghepeng Expedition" during the reign of Guang Xu that it was controlled by the British East India Company.
By uwj ekw83 years ago in FYI
Tripitaka Koreana
The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement.
By Musonius Latoyah3 years ago in FYI
33,000 years ago, the Earth suddenly more a mysterious material, they come from alien worlds
According to reports, by studying radioactive dust in the deep sea, scientists have discovered that today the solar system is carrying the Earth through the wreckage left behind after the explosion of an ancient supernova and that the Earth has been in this wreckage since about 33,000 years ago.
By Baudamolova3 years ago in FYI
"Prophecy King Galtung: 2 of 3 amazing prophecies have been fulfilled, will the beautiful country collapse?
"Prophecy" is a mysterious thing, many of the world's so-called magical prophecies are just "hindsight". There are also some language words or pictures that are ambiguous, the meaning is not clear, as long as the power of interpretation is in the hands of the prophet, then no matter what he said "is right". There are also many "prophecy masters" who are just blind cats who happen to meet dead rats.
By Orr Hirshman3 years ago in FYI