In a world where cell phones, GPS and airplanes did not exist, Nellie Bly set out to prove that she would go around the globe faster than the hero of the novel Around the World in 80 Days. Nobody believed she would succeed, meanwhile the reporter completed the trip faster than anyone before her. Tod
Over a billion people on Earth do not have access to clean drinking water. Meanwhile, waterworks in Krakow appeared in the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, richer city dwellers already enjoyed the water intake in their own home. However, it was much worse with the sewage system. Where did all the w
After being abducted to Israel, he argued that he was only a rank-and-file official of the Third Reich, from whom - by mistake and cowardice of others - a scapegoat was made. He did not plead guilty to the end. Who, according to Adolf Eichmann and his German defender, was responsible for the deaths
After July 30, 1941, thousands of Poles deported deep into the USSR found themselves in a new situation. As part of the Sikorski-Majski pact, our countrymen got a chance to escape from the Soviet empire. More than 100,000 refugees moved south with Anders army, towards Iran. But many have found a tem