Historical Diaries

German Scientists Discover X-rays   On this day in the year 1895, a mechanical physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible. Rontgen’s discovery occurred accidentally in his Wurzburg, Germany, lab, where he was testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass when he noticed a glow coming from a nearby chemically coated screen. He dubbed the rays that caused this glow X-rays because of their unknown nature, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.      X-ray is an an electromagnetic wave of high energy and very short wavelength, which is able to pass through many materials opaque to light. It is a photographic or digital image of the internal composition of something, especially a part of the body, produced by X-rays being passed t...

A Philosopher is Born   Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian period. Spencer is most popular for the articulation "survival of the fittest", which he began in Principles of Biology (1864), in the wake of reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. This term emphatically recommends natural selection, yet as Spencer expanded evolution into domains of sociology and ethics, he likewise utilized Lamarckism.   In the year 1902, shortly before the death of Spencer, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature, that was assigned to Theodor Mommsen, a man of German descent. He continued writing all his life in later years often by dictation, until he succumbed to poor health at the age of 83. His ashes are interred in the eastern side of London's Highgate Cemetery facing Karl Marx's grave. Herbe...

 In History, there are Ancient gods of the underworld and the afterlife. Egypt in particular is a home to some Ancient gods. This post will focus on Egyptian gods Mythologies. Set  This God was known to be aggressive, he dismembered Osiris and thus he often as possible fought with Osiris, his child Horus giving rise to one of the classic tales of Egyptian mythology. At last, Set complemented Horus' rule of the arable land by assuming responsibility for Egyptian deserts. He has been criticized for his conspiring ways either inside his own family hierarchy or by attempting to allure Horus for more power. In the end the Red Desert belonged to Set. God of Chaos Set Horus  This God assumes a significant role in the Osiris myth regarded as God of hunting, war and the sky. He wore various hats on his falcon head and the Egyptian Pharaohs were known to be the human embodiment of him. With regards to his lasting heritage in the contemporary world...

Samuel Doe    For 10 years the sadistic tyrant Samuel Doe rules Liberia with an utter contempt for humanity. His cruelty knows no limits. This is the story of how maniacal ambition turns a vicious young soldier into West Africa's most aggressively violent dictator and how his murderous quest to dominate Liberia came to a humiliating end.   Samuel Doe   (1951-1990) was a Liberian politician who served as the Liberian leader from the year 1980 to year 1990. He enlisted in the army at the age of 18 and was a member from the Krahn ethnic group, a large rural population. He rose through the ranks to become a master sergeant in 1979. Prior to the 1980 overthrow, locals had frequently held a minimal role in the society, which was commanded by the relatives of the Americo-Liberian Pioneers; made fundamentally out of free-born black American liberated slaves, the Pioneers were the settlers who had built up Liberia during the 1820s and drove the nation start...

Frequently we hold what we consider to be the most detestable acts in the public eye for grown-ups. A portion of the most exceedingly terrible wrong-doings at any point submitted were not done by grown-ups but children. Rarely ever discussed, there are a few children that perpetrated wrong-doings so terrible that it will send a chill down your spine. All things considered, set yourself up to jump into the psyche of the most twisted kids that lived past salvation. Here are 5 of the most evil children in history.   The Murder of James Bulger.   In 1993, a Liverpool boy was kidnapped moodily tortured and left on train tracks to be bisected, the culprits were Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, a pair of students who dodged class that day and happened to be less than 10 years of age. The public was shocked when Venables and Thompson were brought to trial and given a minimum 8 years detention before being released under heavy restrictions. Jon Venables and Robert Thom...

   Many a times when we talk about Evil, we often think of men. But today in this post, I will surprise you as the Worst evil people have actually been Women. Here is a list I created to show you some of History's Evil Women you need to know. Beverly Allitt   Beverly Allitt born on the 4th of October 1968 was a British Nurse who dedicated her life into saving lives or perhaps taking lives. Over 2 months period of time in 1991, she murdered 4 children in her care by various means. She also tried to murder 3 more children and left six others injured. All these crimes were committed between the month of February and April in the children's ward at the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire, where Allitt was employed as a   State Enrolled Nurse. She administered large doses of insulin to at least two victims and a large air bubble was found in the body of another. Beverly was found guilty which she was then labelled the "Angel of Death"...

 The concept of curses is an expressed wish that a misfortune that falls to another person has been around as far back as documented history has existed, for some, they are nothing more than a staff of legends but for others it cost them those that they love. The curses that I will talk of today were documented in their whole, and they not only killed people but left others spooked, the circumstances in which they occurred would make a skeptical person become a believer, you decide for yourself are they mere curses or there's something more to it. Aaron Ramsey   Ramsey, a man known for his eye for goal. His strikes has been associated with celebrity thefts, it was once labelled "the curse of Aaron Ramsey" because each time he scored, a celebrity passed away. Each goal he made, was often followed by the death of the likes of Osama Bin Laden, Steve Jobs, David Bowie, Whitney Houston, Paul Walker and Alan Rickman. His injuries kept him out of the pitch pr...