12837. History Facts

Ivan the Terrible blinded the two architects who designed his new church of Saint Basil's so that they could never make anything more beautiful.

12838. History Facts

The Russian ruler Peter the Great had his wife's lover decapitated and insisted that she keep his head in a jar of alcohol beside her bed as a reminder of her crime.

12839. History Facts

Mongolian leader Tamerlane played polo using the skulls of enemies killed in battle.

12840. History Facts

In the Middle Ages, people made washing powder from wood ash and urine.

12841. History Facts

In China in the 1500s, a common method of committing suicide was by eating a pound of salt.

12842. History Facts

The word ‘thug' comes from ‘Thuggees', who were an Indian cult – sometimes described as the world's first mafia – who used to trick and murder people as human sacrifices to their goddess Kali.

12843. History Facts

In the 1600s and later, Egyptian mummies were ground up to use in medicines around Europe.

12844. History Facts

Vlad the Impaler, ruler of Transylvania, had over 20,000 enemies impaled on spikes between 1456 and 1476.

12845. History Facts

British king James I's tongue was too large for his mouth so he slobbered all the time and was a very messy eater.

12846. History Facts

Charles I was executed by beheading, but had his head sewn back on so that his family could pay their respects to his body. His doctor stole a bone from his neck and had it made into a salt cellar.

12847. History Facts

A Bohemian army general was so devoted to his country that when he died he asked for his skin to be removed and made into a drum that could be beaten in defiance of Bohemia's enemies. It was used nearly 200 years later at the start of the Thirty Years War in 1618.

12848. History Facts

In the 1700s, fashionable European women commonly shaved off their real eyebrows and stuck on false ones made from mouse fur.

12849. History Facts

London prisoners condemned to death used to go to chapel on the Sunday before their execution where they had to sit around a coffin while the priest told them how sinful they were.

12850. History Facts

In times of famine, Stone Age tribes would eat old women before dogs – they thought them less useful.

12851. History Facts

The body tag from the corpse of Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot President John F. Kennedy, was sold for £3,600 at an auction.

12852. History Facts

James, Duke of Monmouth, was beheaded in 1685 but when it was discovered that there was no official portrait of him, his head was stitched back on and he posed for his portrait at last.

12853. History Facts

In 1981, 300 people thrown into the water in a ferry accident in Brazil were eaten alive by piranha.

12854. History Facts

The fifteenth-century German king Wenceslas was so angry with his chef after a particularly bad meal that he had him roasted alive.

12855. History Facts

Saint Ignatius of Antioch prayed to be eaten by wild animals; when the Roman Emperor Trajan sentenced him to be eaten by lions in 110 CE he fell to his knees and thanked him.

12856. India - Heritage

Heritage : ajanta caves, maharashtra
rock-cut caves set deep in the sahyadri hills. it has a large relief depicting the death of the buddha lying on the bed.

Name and Location
Name and Location : nyanza, tansania-uganda, kenya
Area : 69,485.00 sq. km.      .. More >>