What is X-Seed 4000? The X-Seed 4000 is a tapered, pyramid-shaped megastructure with a sea-based location, inspired by Mount Fuji, designed as an artificial island with interconnected nodes, ...

In Arabic, Islam means “submission to God,” and a Muslim is a person “devoted to God.” Like Jews and Christians, Muslims are monotheists. They believe there is only one God who created the world and ...

What was daily life like in ancient Rome? How did people spend their days in the Roman Empire? The Roman civilization was an unusual culture with some resemblance to our own. There are parts of life ...

Henry Ford spent millions in the Amazonian model city Fordlândia ages before other brands did, and the city had amenities like a golf club, or a burger joint. Insurrection broke out among the ...

Cavalry on ancient battlefields introduced a new element, proving useful both in reconnaissance and pursuing defeated enemies. The term “cavalry” is quite broad and includes war horses, donkeys, ...

This kind of two-handed war hammer, characterized by a very long spike at the top, has its roots in 14th-century Switzerland. In particular (or at least mostly), the Lucerne canton of Switzerland; ...

The Ultima Tower is a 2-mile-tall, 1-mile-wide structure planned to be built to protect the environment from excessive human development. The Ultima Tower is the tallest building ever planned for the ...

Our universe is composed of celestial bodies such as stars, planets, asteroids, and comets. All of these celestial bodies possess specific structural characteristics. They can also organize themselves ...

Over nine hundred years ago, thousands of Europeans set out to reclaim the Holy Sepulchre — a term that symbolically referred to Jerusalem and the surrounding Holy Land. Since then, many myths and ...

In 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a doctorate candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived a few minutes late to Jerzy Neyman’s statistics lecture while there were two homework problems ...

From the time of the Minoan civilization (c. 3500–c. 1100 BC) through the 4th century BC, the aspis shield was a prevalent weapon among ancient Greek heavy infantry. The term “aspis” is actually a ...

The Parma shield was a round Roman shield used by Roman soldiers from the 1st to the 8th century AD. During the twilight of the Roman Empire, particularly from the 3rd century onward, this disk-shaped ...