All of us are absolutely familiar with William Shakespeare
and his plays. They are a part of school curriculums all over the world and
have lots of adaptations in popular culture. However, very few people are
familiar with his contemporary Christopher Marlowe also known as Kit Marlowe.
He was very popular at the time when he was writing but unfortunately or
suspiciously, his career lasted only 6 years and...
The abandoned fort of Bhangarh is thought to be the most haunted place in India, so much so that the Archaeological Survey of India has forbidden access to the site between sunset and sunrise, and locals have moved their town outside the limits of the fort. The reputation of Bhangarh stems from two old legends, one of which involves a Holy Man who supposedly...
Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting the Mona Lisa, also called La Gioconda, is perhaps the most famous painting in the world. Art lovers believe that it’s the painting’s beauty and artistic merit that make it so popular.
Dozens of experts have studied the Mona Lisa to determine the scientific reasons for this effect. One is that in the three-dimensional real world, shadows and light on a face shift as our...
On Tuesday, June 1, 1948, Mary Virginia Carpenter boarded the Texas & Pacific Texas Special #31 for Dallas, Texas at Union Station in Texarkana about 3 p.m., and stopped in Denton, Texas around six hours later. She was on her way to Texas Women University, to enroll in the summer course. She planned to begin training there as a laboratory technician in the autumn...
Time Travel Claims
There have been various reports of people who have apparently traveled through time, who are reported by the press or circulated on the Internet. These reports have usually turned out to be either hoaxes or to be based on incorrect or incomplete assumptions, wrong information, or misinterpretation of fiction as reality. Many of them are now being recognized as urban legends.
Who was Andrew Carlssin?
The alarm bells went off...
