There was an extended period (1347 - 1750) in which Europe suffered from intermittent bubonic plague epidemics. (more…) Read More
Jack the Ripper is a name given to the world's most famous serial killer. He murdered several women in London… Read More
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who developed many devices, such as the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. (more…) Read More
Sigmund Freud, the famous Ausrtrian neurologist, carried out several self-experiments with cocaine, in which he had swallowed various quantities of… Read More
Many babies in Germany were killed by diarrhea in 1908 due to acute gastrointestinal infections. (more…) Read More
It was back in 1878 when the first telephone book was published in New Haven, by the New Haven District Telephone… Read More
Romans used to wear their wedding ring on the left ring finger as they considered it to 'trap' the vein… Read More
Sigmund Freud, the Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis, was appointed a university lecturer in neuropathology in 1885 and became a professor… Read More
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath, among others painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer, whose… Read More
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, the nephew and heir of Napoleon I, was the first President of the French Republic and, as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire. (more…) Read More
