Jitte (十手), or Jutte, is a Japanese weapon and arresting tool for Samurai police. Japanese security officers of the Edo era (1603–1867) used this specialty weapon. Before the 19th century, the ...

The Shaolin monks brought the Gùn (Chinese: 棍), a staff used in their style of stick combat, to Japan. In that region, the gùn underwent various changes before becoming known as the bō. During this ...

Women in ancient Rome and Greece wore bras, known as strophium (Latin) or strophion (Greek). One of Martial’s epigrams suggests that leather was the typical material for the strophium; however, some ...

How tall was Stalin? The true height of Joseph Stalin is a topic of much debate among historians and scholars. Some reports suggest that he stood at 1.62 m (5’4″), while others (primarily his fellow ...

The Cairo office of the China State Construction Engineering Corporation is investing $48 billion to construct 20 high-rise towers in the New Administrative Capital’s Central Business District. The ...

The Dubai City Tower, also known as the Dubai Vertical City, is a proposed ultra-tall skyscraper in Dubai, designed to house tens of thousands of permanent residents. The tower is intended to stand ...

The sarissa is a spear that was in use in the early third century BC and was between 180 and 300 inches in length (4.5–7.5 m). During Alexander the Great‘s conquests and the Wars of the Diadochi, this ...

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 ...

A native Chicagoan, Sandy Allen was born in 1955. At age 10, she was 6 feet 3 inches tall (190 cm), and by the time she was 16, she was already 7 feet 1 inch (216 cm). In 1976, Sandy Allen was ...

The Ville Contemporaine, or “Contemporary City,” is a visionary urban planning project created by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier in 1922. At the time, Le Corbusier was tasked with creating ...

Chicago’s unbuilt masterpiece, the Illinois Tower in 3D modelling. (Image: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, David Romero) It was in Illinois that Frank Lloyd Wright, “the father of modern architecture”, ...

Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Hicks, Agatha Christie’s only child, was born on August 5, 1919, and passed away on October 28, 2004. When Rosalind’s mother passed away in 1976, she received a sizable ...