
The History Of Ice Cream
The history of ice creams probably began back around 500 BC in the Achaemenid Empire of Persia (Iran) with ice combined with various...

The Great Manchurian Plague, 1910-11
During the autumn of 1910, China began to report a unknown and deadly pneumonic disease that had reached Harbin in the extreme Northeast...

Women's Coronation Procession, 1911
This photograph was taken dated on 17 June 1911 at the Women’s Coronation Procession through London. The Women’s suffrage societies had...

Lost Beauty Of Cincinnati
The Demolition of the Most Beautiful Library in America

Miss Cannes in Cannes, France, 1946
The first annual Cannes Film Festival was held at the resort city of Cannes on French Riviera from 20 September to 5 October 1946.

A French Revolutionary Hussar regiment captured a Dutch fleet frozen war fleet in Den Helder, 1795
On the night of 23 January, 1795, a French Revolutionary Hussar regiment captured a Dutch fleet frozen at anchor between the 3 kilometres...

Neerja Bhanot
Neerja Bhanot is the first and only woman recipient of the India's highest civilian award for bravery " Ashoka Chakra" ( 7 September 1963...

The World's First Car Accident
The world's first car accident happened in Ohio city in 1891. James William Lambert who was an automobile engineer was involved in the...

The Hand Of Death
This picture shows the hand of Clarence Madison Dally (1865-1904), an American glassblower who worked with Thomas Edison in his work on...

A Lie Detector For The Power Of Kiss, 1939
New York Police Department Criminologist Roy Post invented his own version of a lie detector machine called the Postometer, the test...

The Elephant Man
Joseph Carey Merrick also known as John Merrick, was an English man with severe deformities. Best known as " The Elephant Man", he has...

Charlie Chaplin On Wall Street, 1918
Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks draws a crowd of 20,000 to the Wall Street and the foot of the United States Sub Treasury building...

La Dolce Vita
Federico Fellini directed a comedy drama film La Dolce Vita; Italian for the " the sweet life " in the year 1960, which starred Marcello...

Punkah-wallahs,1900
The British in India had to face constant challenge to an unfamiliar climate. The main problem they had was the heat and humidity. In...

The first meeting of constituent assembly, 1946
The first meeting of constituent assembly was held on 9th December 1946, addressed by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to the house. Many great...

A police officer issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini on a beach at Rimini, Italy, 1956
A Parsian fashion designer Jacques Heim designed a two-piece swimsuit naming "Atome". Later in the year 1946 a French engineer Louis...

The Horrifying True Story Of The Brooklyn Vampire
Hamilton Howard " Albert Fish " was an American serial killer, cannibal, child rapist and kidnapper. He was also popularly known as The...

A Chernobyl liquidator recovers a baby in a carriage during the cleanup of the Chernobyl accident
The 1986 nuclear power plant explosion in Chernobyl, Ukraine impelled massive amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere. Around...

The Plane Came Down In The Middle Of A New York City Streets
On September 30th, 1956, Thomas Fitzpatrick landed a stolen plane on St. Nicholas Avenue in northern Manhattan. The story goes, he had...























