Even in his youth, he was not a lover of women and mocked friends who were into women. His innocence was taken from him by Gala. After which he wrote me a magnificent six-page letter describing the joys of carnal love

Crew members of multiday races are not allowed to swap places in a car on the track. What is written on each door of such a car?

To deny that MONA is precisely art is unnecessary, useless, and will not succeed. There is one definition of art that comes in handy in situations like this, especially when it comes to the value of invisible paintings

The question of Mileva’s actual role in Einstein’s scientific discoveries remains a matter of debate among researchers. And this does not diminish her importance as a support and possible inspiration for Einstein during the period when fundamental discoveries were made

Norma Babier, Charles Paxton, Phil Bowers and Charles Deeming have obtained evidence that ostriches experience increased sexual arousal and reproduce more vigorously in the presence of humans. What very famous biology prize did they receive for this startling result?

Was Nelson lucky to be attended by such love, or did it bring him unhappiness? It seems that love is not a bad thing in itself, but it’s not a good thing either. It’s something else, and the only thing you can say with certainty is that you will never forget it. And how exactly you’ll remember it, you won’t know…

«Is it possible to allow this sinful dream? Would not man, created in the image and likeness of God, humiliate himself by descending into the underworld? And what is there, only God knows, and sinful man should not know». What did one Moscow bishop speak against a little more than a hundred years ago?

On January 29, 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf arrived at Mayerling at 3:30 pm. A little later, a lady arrives to visit him by hired fiacre. Her name is Baroness Maria Alexandrina von Vechera, and she is 18 without a month and a half of age. The servants easily recognize her; it is not the first time she has been here – of course, with the crown prince. In the morning, neither the crown prince nor his guest left the bedchamber. It was not until 9 o’clock that the valet broke down the door with an axe. What he saw drove him into panic-stricken terror…

A plane from Frankfurt am Main, which could not land in Novosibirsk due to weather conditions, was driven all the way to Omsk to the limit of its range — it had to land without fuel, purely on aerodynamics. Meanwhile, there were many airports on the way and closer. What was not in them?

I wonder how events would have developed if they had continued to love each other as they did at the beginning of their marriage and had not fought but acted together. If Henry hadn’t started chasing skirts, hadn’t gotten involved in taking his bride from his own son, hadn’t had more illegitimate children than legitimate ones, of which, let’s agree, there were quite a few? It seems that love is a jealous and vengeful creature

The rapid brain stimulation common to epileptics had this name back in the twentieth century. But since 1937, a valuable technique for solving complex problems has been called this name. How exactly?

Catherine de’ Medici, a petite Italian lady with a significant political appetite, was queen of France through her marriage to Henry II and mom to a whole trio of kings — Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III