Today women enjoy the same rights and opportunities as that of men in most walks of life. But, this wasn’t the case a few decades back in time. For a very large part of the time in history, women were considered to be inferior to men and subjected to various forms of discrimination. But, this rampant discrimination did not stop some brave women of the past to rise against the entire society if needed and fight for their basic human rights.

Caste System In India

“Nothing you wear is more valuable than your beautiful smile.” — Connie Stevens

Whether you’ve noticed this or not, it is absolutely rare to find people smiling in photographs during the 19th and 20th centuries. The individuals in the photographs always looked grim and creepy irrespective of their then state of mind and social status.

A vast majority of the photographed people look extremely sad for a reason unknown. …

Almost everybody on the planet poops on a daily basis, often in the complete solitude and utmost comfort of their toilet. Whether you admit it or not research has confirmed that pooping is seemingly the only time when most of our minds are at the highest level of cognitive ease.

The reason being that it is the only activity during which we truly let go of all our problems and inhibitions which, in turn, allows our mind to experience the innate joyous feeling of living in the moment. …

History

By the end of the 19th century, a new school of thought was making its rounds in the scientific community. In a few years that followed, the factuality of this hypothesis was proven to be true. Here’s a gist of the hypothesis:

A few million years ago, due to an obscure “gene copying error” human beings split into a separate species from the great apes; thereby setting forth the beginning of a new era of biological evolution.

This theory leads us to an inevitable implication which is: our current human species finds its roots to a long-lost African ape mother…

History is like a treasure trove of knowledge storing its invaluable information mostly in the form of stories.

Beyond being a plethora of knowledge, it also plays a crucial role in promoting social awareness and ethical understanding of the world we live in. These historical narratives are not only beautiful for the sake of it. Instead, they ultimately help shape the moral values of every individual and in turn our society too.

On a lighter note, here’s a list of witty & hilarious historical art memes curated from the best of the internet.

1. After this, you’ll prefer to have dry & straight spaghetti

Today, Alan Turing is remembered as the founding father of modern computer sciences and artificial intelligence. During World War II, this mathematical prodigy developed the world’s first functional programmable computer for British Intelligence.

This computer helped the British forces decrypt the top-secret German Enigma Code, thereby giving the Allies a massive advantage over the Nazi forces, which ultimately helped them crush the Axis Powers.

Despite being a pioneer of computational sciences, he was never recognized for his groundbreaking works. …

History

The Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians worldwide compels them to “do no harm” to their patients both intentionally and unintentionally. However, history stands as a testament to all the lives lost due to doctors’ fallacious medical diagnosis in the past. Back then it was safer to live with the illness rather than visiting a medical practitioner and increasing the probability of dying due to their fatal treatments.

Here’s a list of medical procedures physicians once believed worked, but we now know otherwise.

1. Asthma Cigarettes

As deep as the irony can get, back in the early 1900s, cigarettes enriched with medicinal herbs were…

History

During the wee hours of 30th September 1956, the residents of uptown Manhattan woke up to witness something rather extraordinary.

A red-white colored Cessna 140 had descended onto their streets. It then taxied down the streets before the pilot left it parked haphazardly outside a local bar.

Looking at this seemingly uncommon sight, the residents speculated that the aircraft might have developed a technical snag mid-air. They further reasoned that; “It must have taken an extremely skilled aviator to maneuver the aircraft onto the streets of Manhattan without accounting to a single casualty.”

While landing an aircraft on the narrow…