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A robot designed by the Ottoman Empire and gifted to the Emperor of Japan in 1889. The robot was made of silver and gold plating. ...

Abdul-Malik Ibn Marwan's coin dropped in a well. He paid someone 13 coins to take out the 1 coin from the well. It didn't make sense to people. So Abdul-Malik said: "God's Name is written on it." أن عبد الملك وقع منه فلس في بئر قذرة ، فاكترى عليه بث...

This is 'Lisan al-'Arab' [لسان العرب]: Ibn Manzur says in the intro to this 20-volume book :فجمعت هذا الكتاب في زمن أهل...

In Greek mythology, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝘀 (“the stretcher”) was a blacksmith who claimed to have developed a one-size-fits-all bed. He made sure everyone fits into this bed. How? If they were too long, he used to chop their feet, to make them fit into the bed...

Ancient books are full of stories about stingy people [البخلاء], but there are also some modern examples: Hetty Green [1834-1916] This was a wealthy American business-woman who went down as one of the world's stingiest women in history. The Guinnes...

‘The life span of an individual is sixty or seventy years; but a century is for the nation a single breath… The individual is kept alive by the concomitance of soul and flesh, ...

When you burn the bridges that connect us, don’t complain when I don’t visit you. کله چې ته پخپله زموږ تر منځ پلونه سوزوي، بیا ګیله هم مه کوه چې زه ولې نه راځم...

Ibn al-Jawzi mentions: حدثنا عيسى بن عمر قال ولي إعرابي البحرين فجمع يهودها وقال ما تقولون في عيسى بن مريم قالوا نحن قتلناه وصلبناه قال فقال الإعرابي لا جرم فهل أديتم ديته فقالوا لا فقال والله لا تخرجون من عندي حتى تؤدوا إلي ديته فما خرجوا حتى دفعوه...

Interesting History ... The Hanging of Mary (Elephant) - Year 1916, USA Mary was a five-ton Asian elephant who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. After killing a keeper in Tennessee in 1916, she was hanged. The elephant was hanged...

The US banned alcohol from 1920 to 1933. These pictures show the Police enforcing the alcohol ban in the 1920's. However, people did not comply, so the alcohol ban was lifted in 1933. Read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_...