Articles for category: History

November 4, 2025

The Hidden Face of Earth: The Enormous Ocean We Never See

The Side of Earth We Rarely Witness — A Planet Covered Almost Entirely by the Vast Pacific Ocean, Where the Continents Disappear Beneath Endless Blue There’s a side of our planet that almost no one ever thinks about — the side where the continents vanish, where the familiar outlines of nations and cities are swallowed by endless blue. From this angle, Earth doesn’t look like the mosaic of borders and landmasses we know from maps and globes. Instead, it becomes something else entirely: a water world, dominated almost completely by one ocean so vast that it stretches across nearly a

October 28, 2025

The Castle That’s Been Home to One Family for 800 Years

Inside Germany’s Magical Eltz Castle — A 12th-Century Fortress That’s Been Owned by the Same Family for 33 Generations Hidden deep within the lush hills above the Moselle River in western Germany lies one of the most enchanting castles in Europe — Eltz Castle, or Burg Eltz. It looks like something out of a fairy tale, surrounded by misty forests, its tall turrets piercing through the clouds. But what makes this medieval masterpiece truly special isn’t just its beauty. It’s the extraordinary fact that for more than 800 years, this castle has been owned and lived in by the same