One of the most controversial women in Chinese history — In the 2,000 years of dynastic rule in China from 220 BC all the way until the end of 1911, there were about 557 emperors. All these emperors were male except one, Wu Zetian, the one and only female emperor in the imperial history of China. There is no doubt…

How long would you like to live if it is up to you? And why? There are many people throughout history who wanted to live forever. But death is inevitable, or is it? Elixir of life tried by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China

When death changes from a tragic matter to a comedic one — Whenever I had occasions when I choked on food or struggled to go to the toilet, I thought: “How bad would it be if I died this way?” Then, not only would my whole life be a joke, but my death as well. However, even my wildest thoughts seem to…

3. Albania was the only country in Europe that came out of WWII with more Jewish population than prior to the war — Photo by Jo Arounding on Unsplash A long time ago, I was an undergraduate student who majored in Albanian language and literature. We had a loving professor from Elbasan, Albania, teaching us the language as well as the history of his motherland. We were a bunch of brats who had…

Death by a robot is not only science fiction — Photo by Maximalfocus on Unsplash “Killer robots” sounds like something from science fiction movies. But there were quite a few incidents of death by robots that actually happened in history. The first-ever recorded one occurred in 1979. Robert Williams, the first person to be killed by a robot The first human death to be caused by a robot happened on January…

“If those rails could talk” — Subways fascinate me, not the sandwich kind — even though it came up a lot when I was searching online about subways in various cities, I meant the metro kind. Subways are fascinating, especially the old ones that have been running for more than a hundred years. Just imagine how…

The story of the father of handwashing — By both chance and fate, I came to Budapest in 2016. It was a whole new place to me and I used to wander around mapping out the communities I lived amongst. During one of these expeditions, I came across a giant sculpture at a hospital’s entrance near the first…

Too crazy and funny to be true. Yet sadly, they actually happened. — 1. Baseball player killed by the pitched ball in the league match American baseball player Raymond Johnson Chapman served as the shortstop (fielding position between second and third base) for the baseball team, Cleveland Indians, during his baseball career.

Laughable silly mistakes, serious lasting impact — Anything that involves humans, involves human error, history is no exception. Some of our idiotic mistakes have led to unimaginable outcomes, and the world might look comletely different if these mistakes did not occur. …