The study suggests that the dietary wellbeing of Wrangel Island's mammoths was stable and that all long-term weather events had already passed. The culprit of their demise, it claims, were short-term "icing events."Wikimedia CommonsA painting in Canada’s Royal Victoria Museum depicting an adult woolly mammoth.
After most of Earth’s woolly mammoths died out, one population carried on a remote Arctic island. The final holdouts survived on Wrangel Island and outlived their mainland counterparts by 7,000 years. Read More...
Along with the sword, you'll also find the mummified hands of a thief who once tried to steal the blade. Wikimedia CommonsGalgano Guidotti’s real sword in the stone.
If you’ve ever dreamt of becoming King Arthur and pulling a real Excalibur from stone, you may have your chance. Though it may cost you your hands.
In the outskirts of Siena, Italy, there is a 900-year-old sword buried in solid rock. However, a mythical king never touched this sword’s grip. Read More...
Angered by the burdensome terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Anton Drexler took matters into his own hands and founded what would eventually become the Nazi Party. Wikimedia CommonsA photograph of Anton Drexler when he was chairman of the German Workers’ Party.
The decade following World War I is generally associated with sparkling flappers and Gatsby-esque decadence. But in Germany there was a darker side beneath the glitz and glamour, where many such as Anton Drexler resented the postwar conditions that had been foisted upon them by the victors. Read More...
