On June 6, 1683, The Ashmolean, the world’s first university museum, opens in Oxford, England. THE WORLD'S FIRST UNIVERSITY MUSEUM https://hisfu.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/THE-WORLDS-FIRST-UNIVERSITY-MUSEUM.mp3 At the time of the English Restoration, Oxford was the center of scientific activity in Englan...
Samuel Morse demonstrates the world’s first telegraph message, “What hath God wrought?” The world’s first telegraph messagehttps://hisfu.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/The-worlds-first-telegraph-message.mp3 On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse inaugurated the world’s first commercial telegraph line with a mess...
Galileo gets a lot of the credit for publicizing the fact that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around. A lot of the reason why he gets so much press about that ‘discovery’ is because of his persecution by the Catholic Church. The theory of Heliocentrism was around for well over a decade before Galileo wa...
Troy (in ancient Greek, Ἴλιος or Ilios), was located in western Turkey–not far from the modern city of Canakkale (better known as Gallipoli), at the mouth of the Dardarnelles strait. Its position was crucial in controlling the trade routes towards the Black Sea and, as the Trojan prince Paris mentions to the Spartan king Me...
The Tsar Cannon actually deserves its pompous name—it is the biggest cannon in the world. This piece of royal artillery was built to defend the Kremlin, and it has been located there for more than four hundred years. There are rumors that the cannon has never been fired, but this is not true. TSAR CANNON The Ts...
Did you know that the Muslim Persian scholar of medicine, Ibn Sina suspected that some diseases were spread by microorganisms? To prevent human-to-human contamination, he came up with the method of isolating people for 40 days. He called this method al-Arba’iniya (“the forty”). History of Hospital and Quarant...
The Book of Revelation from the Bible’s New Testament is a famous collection of prophecies. It was written by John, one of Jesus’ twelve apostles. The author used symbolism to describe the many extraordinary things that he saw would happen in the future. Because of the symbolism, later people have often found the book difficult...
1. Preface Throughout the centuries, prophets, oracles, nymphs and other mystical entities from all over the world have left revelations, prophecies, myths and legends to the modern world. Prophecies were provided, for example, in Chinese society in the I Ching or “Book of Changes,” which is at least 5,000 years old. In western s...
This map was made in 1683 by the Italian cartographer Giacomo Cantelli and it’s believed by many to be the first European map that includes Bhutan. In this map of Northeast India, Giacomo places Bhutan as “Regno di Boutan,” the Kingdom of Bhutan. But there’s something wrong with this map. FIRST EUROPEAN M...