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This Japanese train floats above the rails at 603 km/h
In 2015, in Japan, the magnetic levitation train known as the L0 Series Maglev set a world rail speed record by reaching
The Qing dynasty ruled history's most populous empire
The Qing dynasty, founded by conquerors from Manchuria, ruled China from 1644 until its collapse in 1912. At its peak, in the
The world's largest library holds 170 million items
Founded in 1800 in Washington, the Library of Congress of the United States stands today as the largest physical library ever assembled
This Japanese company survived 1,400 years before closing in 2006
In 578 AD, in Japan, a craftsman who had come from the Korean peninsula founded a company specializing in the construction of
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