ncient civilisations’ passion for colours is more than understandable, without it, life would be colourless, grey and an endless abyss. It was the Tyrian purple, the Egyptian blues, their precious golden shades and Persian turquoise that brought excitement into...
October 1971, in the middle of the Iranian desert, the largest meeting of monarchs and heads of state in modern history took place. The party was to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian empire and its host, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of...
urder alone can get you a lifetime in jail if not execution but what about murder, rape, and cannibalism? I mean what was wrong with the justice system when it was unearthed that Sagawa had murdered the girl he loved in cold blood? Let’s dig in. Issei Sagawa is now a...
istance from the sea has been historically related to isolation and inaccessibility. So much so that a geographical concept was invented to name such places. In 1920, Vilhjalmur Stefansson was the first to introduce the concept of a Pole of Inaccessibility, in order...
orn in Baghdati, Russian Empire (now Mayakovsky, Georgia) on July 19, 1893, he was the youngest child of Ukrainian parents who, in order to remain true to his beliefs, got himself in much trouble and even spent a few years behind the bars. He was and still is the...
