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What are 4 bronze horses doing on top of the entrance to the main church in Venice?
She was an exotic dancer, the most solicited courtesan of Paris, a spy, a double agent and after being executed while blowing a kiss to the firing squad, a pop culture icon who still endures
While the known US UFO research projects have focused on debunking the phenomena, managing public concern and deflecting attention, the real investigation has been conducted by a secret program beyond any political control. It is referred to as the Legacy Program and it strongly resembles the Majestic 12 theory
Exclusively for col2.com, the 9th part of BadMedium's diaries telling his psychic and paranormal experiences in first person. In this installment a mystical vision of an initiation journey and a material that does not exist in the real world or on the internet
The main prophecies for the year 2026 by Nostradamus, Astrology, some fringe modern prophets and Baba Vanga
Predictions for Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. Will any of them come true?
December 24 has never halted the world. This article compiles notable events that took place on this significant day
Unicorns, dog‑headed men, giant serpents and crocodiles, people paying with banknotes… Following the steps of Marco Polo’s 24‑year journey to the court of Kublai Khan in China through the Silk Road. How he traveled, the countries he visited, and the total distance he walked. A journey that would be nearly impossible to make by land today. Things you’ll see!
Ursids, Taurids, Lyrids, Southern Delta Aquariids, Orionids, Eta Aquariids, Leonids, Quadrantids, Perseids and Geminids
The boat became one of most famous shipwrecks of the early 20th century after beaching on the rocks and settling into an acrobatic position
A secretive group inside US military intelligence that advocates the demonic UFO theory
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John Chickie Donohue's 1967 journey to bring beer from New York to his friends deployed in the Vietnam War. The route analyzed in detail with a map, framed in its historical context. Illustrated with real images of the epic journey
The term that has come down to our days began as an insult, just as Baroque began as a Neoclassical insult
Reasons, the languages spoken during the Revolution, who actually used French in 1789, how intellectuals exploited the situation to seize power, impose a reign of terror, all to end with a self‑crowned emperor and when the majority of France finally spoke French
The conception of the sea leviathan SS Great Eastern by Victorian genius Isambard Kingdom Brunel, its construction, the complicated launch that ruined its builders, the empty maiden voyage that foretold its failure as a passenger liner, unexpected success as a submarine cable layer, reconversion into a freak giant floating billboard and ultimate demolition with wrecking balls
The most famous ghosts in history attributed to spirits of real persons researched by paranormal investigators. Renowned cases in Australia, Japan, Spain and South America, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, continental Europe, USA, the ghosts of the White House, the most famous ghosts caught on camera and our pick as the most famous ghost in history
Evolution of Spiritualism from its early European roots to the 19th-century American craze sparked by the Fox Sisters. Table-turning and automatic writing in Europe, Allan Kardec's Spiritism. Widespread fascination with mediums and séances, including the sessions that Queen Victoria hosted. Key figures, famous followers, skeptics, major fraud scandals, undebunked cases and current status of the movement
When someone tries to remove the skull from its home, move it or bury it, paranormal phenomena and all kinds of misfortunes are unleashed. They cease only when the skull is placed back where it was.
Once a skeptic who dismissed UFOs as nonsense, Hynek became a founding father of modern ufology. His journey from Project Blue Book to Close Encounters of the Third Kind and his final conclusions
Darwin Award; individuals who contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool after doing something very stupid
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