Historical

Girl With a Pearl Earring: The Misterious "Mona Lisa of the North"
Johannes Vermeer’s enigmatic, mysterious "Girl With a Pearl Earring" has captivated viewers since its creation in 1655. Known as the “Mona Lisa of the North”, the enigmatic subject of the painting has been debated for hundreds of years. Who was the girl with a pearl earring and what makes this painting so extraordinary?
By dns tns4 years ago in FYI
Selkies
Imagine you are visiting the Northern Isles of Scotland and while you are looking out into the sea you see a seal that appears to be larger than usual with a very human like gaze to its eyes. It may be possible that is not a seal at all! Now imagine as you are watching the seal it comes ashore but once ashore it appears to be a human taking off a seal fur coat. But you know what you saw in the water was a seal, there was no way it could have been a person you were watching the whole time. Well maybe it was both, maybe it was a selkie. What is a selkie you ask? Well, they are the seal folk a form of Fae that live in the sea!
By Jake Thomas4 years ago in FYI
How to Use Camouflage Like a Ukrainian Army Sniper
Camouflage has been all over mass media since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, demonstrating how vital camouflage is, regardless of technological advancement.
By Rui Alves4 years ago in FYI
Historical Drama
Historical drama has become an industry of the most important strategic assets that countries use in building their future. How is that?
By Roxanne Mann4 years ago in FYI
The Men Who Sacrificed Their Manhood Organ For Better Life
'You'll no longer be able to produce your next generation, no longer be able to function as a man.' 'After this operation, IT 'll be parted from your body forever, but no worries IT'll be given to you, you can keep IT with you in a small pouch your whole life.'
By Life Lesson4 years ago in FYI
Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters in France, 1920
Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters in France, 1920 Twenty graybeards sitting in a square played chess in Paris against a very small boy 8 years old, and Samuel Reshevsky beat them all. According to New York Times: on May 17, 1920, Reshevky faced 20 players in a simul in Paris and the boy “moved quietly from one board to another, reducing their most skillful plans and wiles to nothingness.” Young Samuel — whose head was reported to be “well-shaped, but not abnormal” — had been playing since the age of 5.
By Georgenes Medeiros4 years ago in FYI
What is Existential Philosophy?
Existentialism is one of the most popular and intense ideas of modern philosophy riddled with problems and puzzles that philosophers since the 19th century have been trying to rationalise and solve. The Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy defines existentialism as ‘a catch-all term for those philosophers who consider the nature of the human condition as a key philosophical problem and who share the view that this problem is best addressed through ontology.’ (Burnham, D. Papandreopoulos, G.) It is also mainly concerned with action, that a meaning to a person’s life can only be found in what they can do and what they have done - it states ‘My existence consists of forever bringing myself to being - and, correlatively, fleeing from the dead, inert thing that is the totality of my past actions. Although my acts are free, I am not free not to act; thus existence is characterised also by exigency.’ (Burnham, D. Papandreopoulos, G.) This is a basic format of what existentialism actually entails without further detail and/or reading. Within this study, I seek to create an in-depth map of what existentialism is, where it came from and where it is in our own day. The point of which is to see whether we today are really as existentialist as our own existential crises may suggest.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in FYI
The Unusual Occupations That Time Forgot. Top Story - April 2022.
Have you ever wondered what became of the lamplighters, knockers up and mudlarks? What are these, you may wonder? These are historical occupations that no longer exist or have changed almost entirely since they started.
By Sam H Arnold4 years ago in FYI
Where is our Walter Cronkite?
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a scary time for everyone in America in 1962. I was 12 at the time and remember being glued to the TV every night as the drama unfolded and the fear of a nuclear war escalated until at the last minute an agreement was made between Russia and the US to avoid WW3.
By Trent Fox4 years ago in FYI
The 10 poorest countries in the world
The 10 poorest countries in the world Poverty is a phenomenon that plagues several nations of the world and must be understood as the lack of decent living conditions, with the absence of food, housing and clothing. It is understood that a large part of the world's population - mainly African countries - lives in these conditions. The Human Development Index (HDI) is used to measure the level of poverty in societies today, and takes into account education, income and life expectancy.
By Georgenes Medeiros4 years ago in FYI
Facts about the Titanic you probably didn't know
The RMS Titanic is likely one of the most notable boat wrecks and ships ever. She was fabricated and built by the Harland And Wolff Shipping organization back in 1912 and dispatched/claimed by the White Star Line transporting organization, which is currently essential for Cunard Lines.
By Daniel Henry 4 years ago in FYI
Every Day Words That Came from Greek Mythology
Chaos: Chaos was the name of the primordial deity who, according to Greek myth, was responsible for the beginning of everything: Space, darkness, the unknown beyond the physical realm.
By Jennifer Childers4 years ago in FYI