Planned for Tokyo Bay, Japan, the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid is a massive metropolis in the form of a gigantic pyramid. The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid is 6,575 feet (2,004 meters) tall, or roughly 14 ...

Michele Besso was born to Italian Jewish parents Giuseppe Besso and Arminia (née Cantoni) in the Zurich neighborhood of Riesbach. The family relocated to Zurich so that the father could take a job ...

In many derogatory titles that had little to do with the actual inhabitants of the area, Tartaria became the most popular term for Central Asia and Siberia in European sources. European knowledge of ...

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 ...

Thökk prevents the return of the god Baldur from the realm of the dead of Hel. In this story, Loki is responsible for the death of the deity Baldur. Baldur now lives in the underworld of Hel, much to ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...