A breakthrough study suggests that rats weren’t to blame for the plague pandemic during the 14th century

Courtesy: The Vintage N ews Jan 19, 2018 Nikola Budanovic Despite the widely accepted theory that the black rat (Rattus Rattus) was the main culprit of the plague pandemic that devastated 14th century Europe and Asia, scientists from the University of Oslo, Norway, and the University of Ferrara, Italy, beg to differ. The Black Death, as … Read more

The traveling Sutherland Sisters: Seven women and 37 feet of hair between them

Courtesy: The Vintage News Jan 17, 2018 Magda Origjanska The Seven Sutherland Sisters You may think that thanks to celebrity magazines, websites, and youtube how-to videos, you know all there is to know about celebrity hair. But you may not know about the Sutherland Sisters– America’s first hair stars. The Seven Sutherland Sisters, whose names were … Read more

Thanks to the Dark Web, a 17th century letter from Satan to a nun is deciphered

Courtesy: The Vintage News Feb 11, 2018 Ian Harvey Millions of people surf the internet every day. What most don’t know is that, lurking encrypted and hidden within the everyday web that we all use for news, games, and social media sharing is also the Dark Web, full of bitcoin, drugs, cybercrime, and other shady matters. But … Read more

Strange but True: In 1952 a German scientist predicted the name “Elon” would be associated with the colonization of Mars

Courtesy: The Vintage News Feb 11, 2018 Domagoj Valjak The South African-born billionaire businessman and engineer Elon Musk is one of the world’s leading innovators in space travel. His company SpaceX works on the creation of low-cost and energy-efficient spacecraft. It’s possible that those spacecrafts will bring the first humans to Mars in the following decade. If SpaceX … Read more

Association of the Week: The Triangle

May 21, 2018 by Paulo Coelho The triangle is one of the most elementary symbolic figures due to its geometric aspect: it’s basically the simplest way of linking three points in space with straight lines. Yet not all triangles have the same meaning. In excavations made near to Lepenski Vir in the Danube, there was found many … Read more

Johnny Cash accidentally started a wildfire that destroyed over 500 acres and killed 49 endangered condors

Courtesy: The Vintage News Mar 26, 2018 Goran Blazeski Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images “I fell into a burning ring of fire I went down, down, down And the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire The ring of fire” If you are unfamiliar with the lines above, then just … Read more

Bristol’s beautiful cinemas of the past: they were either demolished or closed down

ABANDONED SPACES Photo Credit: brizzle born and bred CC BY-ND 2.0 As one of the UK’s most popular tourist destinations, and declared the best city in Britan to be living in 2017 by The Sunday Times, Bristol is definitely a city that has a lot to offer. It has a long history beginning in the 11th … Read more

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