In Katai Tayama’s Inaka Kyōshi (“Country Teacher”), the facial gesture is mentioned in the sentence “some male students look back and show their red eyes.” The “red eyes” or 赤い目 reads as “Akaime” and ...

Chicago’s unbuilt masterpiece, the Illinois Tower in 3D modelling. (Image: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, David Romero) It was in Illinois that Frank Lloyd Wright, “the father of modern architecture”, ...

X-Seed 4000 is a 13,100-foot (4,000-meter) tall megastructure with 800 floors. It has a capacity for 1 million people living inside at the same time. The X-Seed 4000 is a floating “ocean city” off the ...

The Anthesteria (ancient Greek Ἀνθεστήρια, translated as “Flower Festival”) was a festival in the Attic festival calendar. It took place over three days, from the 11th to the 13th of the month ...

The Parma shield was a round Roman shield that was widely used by Roman soldiers from the 1st to the 8th century AD. It resembled the Greek aspis and played a significant role in Roman military ...

In many derogatory titles that had little to do with the actual inhabitants of the area, Tartaria became the most popular term for Central Asia and Siberia in European sources. European knowledge of ...

Planned for Tokyo Bay, Japan, the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid is a massive metropolis in the form of a gigantic pyramid. The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid is 6,575 feet (2,004 meters) tall, or roughly 14 ...

The Tokyo Tower of Babel is a proposed hyperbuilding in the city of Tokyo that is 33,000 feet or 6,2 miles (10 km) tall. The Tokyo Tower of Babel was designed as a new megastructure by Professor ...

The Shaolin monks brought the Gùn (Chinese: 棍), a staff used in their style of stick combat, to Japan. In that region, the gùn underwent various changes before becoming known as the bō. During this ...

Hans Albert Einstein: The Story of Einstein’s First Son Hans Albert Einstein was the oldest son of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić. He was a renowned Swiss-American engineer and pioneer in sediment ...

The crossguard of this weapon served the purpose of blocking enemy weapons. It could also be folded back, functioning as hooks for grappling with opponents, such as dismounting riders from their ...

The Lucerne hammer is a type of polearm weapon, which combines the features of a stabbing, striking, and polearm weapon. It was used extensively by European infantrymen from the 15th century up to the ...