Charles Darwin: The Man Who Came Up with The Revolutionary Idea

Darwin did not pursue his interest in plants and animals seriously until he became friend with the cleric and botanist John Steven Henslow at Cambridge University. On Henslow’s recommendation, he was invited to join the naval survey ship, HMS Beagle, as naturalist and...

16 Weird & Amazing Bird Facts Around The World

In Russia the keen eyesight of the pigeon is put to a very practical use for, at one factory in Moscow, they are used to sort ball-bearings. After four or five weeks special training, the birds inspect the ball-bearings as they pass on a conveyor. If any show the least...

Strange World: Some Odd Ruling Tales

When the Hapsburg Emperor, Rudolf II, went mad, he allowed lions, tigers and other exotic animals and birds to run free in the empty galleries and corridors. King Louis IX of France “died” of the Plague at the age of twenty nine in 1244. But the King had other ideas for,...

Lake Monster in Northern Ontario

Yet another case of a mutated beast on the shore of a lake.  It seems they always wash up, but this is probably that we don't run around the woods as much as we hang out on beaches, and dead things in the woods get eaten faster.  In this case the beast is likely a...

This is a collection of most barbaric medieval instruments

This is a collection of most barbaric medieval instruments of torture that we found in St. Petersburg museum...

Washington DC woman finds stranger in her bed: cuddler returns?

There were at least half dozen reported cases when women in georgetown area of Washington DC said they woke up to find a total stranger in their bed. "A woman in northwest DC was surprised to fnd a total stranger in her bed and she was not even drunk. There were a rash of...