Courtesy: The Vintage News Jan 23, 2018 Stefan Andrews About 6,000 rocks that display distinctive “cup and ring” carvings, alongside other ancient engravings, dot the landscape of Britain, with at least one-third of them found in Scotland. Archaeologists have offered several explanations as to what these strange symbols mean. Some have said the ancients inscribed them for … Read more
ایک دفعہ کا ذکر ہے کہ ایک تاجر نے اپنے ملازم کو کچھ کپڑا لینے بازار کی طرف بھیجا۔ بازار پہنچ کر ملازم نے دیکھا کہ اسکی اپنی موت اسکے کفن دفن کا سامان خرید رہی ہے۔ وہ یہ دیکھ کر بری طرح سے گھبرا گیا اور الٹے پاوٗں تاجر کے گھر کی طرف بھاگا۔ … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Mar 1, 2018 Goran Blazeski The American Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. Although no one knows precisely how many people were killed or wounded during this great tragedy, most researchers agree that the number of casualties went way beyond anybody’s expectations. It has been estimated that over 620,000 Americans lost their lives … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Jan 5, 2018 Tijana Radeska If Blanche Monnier hadn’t made the wrong choice for a future husband, history might not have recorded her existence. She chose someone whom her mother disliked. In fact, Madam Monnier disliked her daughter’s love interest so much that she locked the girl in a tiny room until … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Mar 9, 2018 Magda Origjanska We often read or talk about the institution of marriage in our modern society, and it seems that more than ever before, people find it unnecessary, an obligation. Some people believe that the disintegration of marriage is a result of younger generations’ unrealistic aspirations or the rapid tempo … Read more
E.L. Hamilton Courtesy: The Vintage News Photo: Jamling Tenzing Norgay CC BY-SA 3.0 Surviving a summit of Mount Everest requires a daunting list of essential supplies that take months to assemble and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Among fueling necessities, however, is a decades-old British treat: the Kendal Mint Cake. In fact, the humble … Read more
Nuclear optimism in the 1950s spawned toys that promised to be a “seething scientific creation,” with some actually containing radioactive elements Courtesy: The Vintage News Brad Smithfield Photo by: The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis CC BY-SA 3.0 Gone are the days when people were totally oblivious of the dangerous effects of radiation exposure when it … Read more
