Mountaineering is inherently a risky endeavor. Beginners, cautious and risk-averse, start with smaller summits. They work their way up, skill by skill, to the more daunting and vertical challenges. Yet, even the less foreboding peaks can be treacherous.
The Heilbronn Dachstein accident was an event in April 1954 in which ten students and three teachers from Heilbronn Boys' Middle School of Heilbronn died in a snowstorm on the Dachstein massif in Upper Austria.
There are stones in Romania called Trovants that grow and multiply after heavy rain shower.
The Library of Alexandria, once a beacon of knowledge in the ancient world, has become shrouded in mystery and legend. Famed for its vast collection of scrolls and its association with great scholars, its destruction is often lamented as a devastating loss for humanity. But the truth about the library's demise is more complex than a single fire.
More than 7,000 years ago, people navigated the Mediterranean Sea using technologically sophisticated boats.
On September 1, 1859, the Sun spewed electrified gas and subatomic particles amounting to the energy of 10 billion atomic bombs towards the Earth, causing telegraph communications to fail, literally shocking operators, and causing systems to catch fire. Northern Lights were reported as far south as Cuba and Hawaii, allowing witnesses to read newspapers by the light of the auroras alone.
This discovery leads us to wonder about the level of technology and knowledge possessed by ancient civilizations.
Strange things are happening at the outer edges of our solar system. An object up to ten times the mass of Earth is pulling others towards it. Is it a planet, or something else? Scientists are still struggling to come to an explanation; but they call it the “Planet X.”
It is said that seven bishops, driven from Spain by the Moors, arrived at an unknown, vast island in Atlantic and built seven cities – one for each.
Deep beneath the Baltic Sea lies an ancient hunting ground! Divers have uncovered a massive structure, over 10,000 years old, resting at a depth of 21 meters on the seabed of Mecklenburg Bight in the Baltic Sea. This incredible find is one of the earliest known hunting tools built by humans in Europe.
