The Parthenon The Parthenon today performs a function very similar to the one it was first equipped with back in the middle of the 5th century BC. There are various theories about its exact purpose and use in classical Athens. Opportunities include a conventional temple to Athena, a treasury of ap
By defeating Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig , the monarchist nations that fought against the famous general hoped to bury once and for all the liberal promises that had fostered the arrival of this soldier to power. As defeat was not enough, the royalist forces were careful to isolate t
Germany was one of the pioneers in jet aircraft technology. In the fall of 1940 the Air Ministry issued a specification for a high-speed, long-range jet-powered aircraft. Of all the German aircraft manufacturers, only Arado responded. Arado presented the E.370 design which was a twin-engine jet a
According to a new study, the last common ancestor between humans and chimpanzees - improperly known as the missing link - may have lived in the Eastern Mediterranean , and not in Africa as previously thought. The controversial theory comes from a fossil study of two individuals of Graecopithec