Maxime Marquette
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This war lasted 335 years without a single shot fired
In 1651, in the middle of the English Civil War, a royalist fleet took refuge in the Isles of Scilly, off the
Jeanne Calment, humanity's oldest verified person, who once crossed paths with Van Gogh
The Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, born in 1875 in Arles and who died in 1997 at the exceptional age of 122 years and
DID YOU KNOW the Mongol Empire remains history's largest contiguous empire
At its peak in the thirteenth century, under the successors of Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire covered roughly 24 million square kilometers
Inside Vatican City, the world's smallest sovereign state
With an official surface area of just 0.49 square kilometers, Vatican City is the smallest recognized sovereign state in the world, so
The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosion humanity ever triggered
On October 30, 1961, above the isolated archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, in the Soviet Arctic, the USSR detonated a thermonuclear device of
The Phaistos Disc carries a script that is still undeciphered
In 1908, amid the ruins of the palace of Phaistos, in Crete, Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier unearthed an object that would become
The Lascaux cave keeps the secret of its 17,000-year-old paintings
In September 1940, deep in Dordogne, four teenagers who had set out to explore a hole left by a fallen tree stumbled,
The Lake Michigan "triangle" and its still-unexplained disappearances
Far from the tropical waters of the Atlantic, another enigmatic zone has built a troubling reputation right in the heart of the
Two British pranksters admitted to creating crop circles
For decades, geometric patterns of unsettling precision appeared, often overnight, in the grain fields of southern England. These formations, dubbed crop circles,