CODEX Entry 8118: Gadolinium   Gadolinium is a silvery-white rare-earth metal. The metal is too reactive to exist naturally. The main mining areas are in China, the US, Brazil, Sri Lanka, India, ...

CODEX Entry 4102: Early medical understanding of blood   "Medea took her unsheathed knife and cut the old man's throat letting all of his blood out of him. She filled his ancient veins with a ...

The regulations concerning the creation of ‘Mules’ are complex and a specialized field of legal expertise. Early trials require that new models are sterile, so that escaping mules can not begin to pro ...

CODEX Entry 1210: Dating the origins of man   With every passing month, as new skeletal sites are tested, the story of our origins evolves. In the current view of human evolution, Homo Erectus ...

Rumours continue to leak from navy pilots and marine special foreces after tours of service at US McMurdo Base in Antarctica, of the existence of a deserted alien base. As early as Admiral Byrd’s f ...

Thanks to the rule of the House of Esterházy, the Jews of Eisenstadt survived the mass expulsions from Austria, issued by Emperor Leopold in 1671. However, challenges remained, as the town’s Jewish co ...

As bonded slavery evolved in the corporate west, so too Russia’s feudal system slipped effortlessly through bouts of communism and capitalism. The bolyars of old, rebranded as district secretaries, a ...

A thirteen year old kadesh, or temple boy, present at the death of Marduk, Dura was fearless and sharp-witted. Recognising that true power rested in the secrets of the centrifuge rather than the gold ...

A victim and beneficiary of the Devshemir system for recruiting Janissaries, Drasko was snatched from his village in Serbia to begin the arduous training as an Ottoman infantryman. Forbidden to marry ...

Carmack’s parents divorced when he was four years old and he was brought up by his grandmother. Bullied at school, where he had skipped a year ahead, he buried himself in books, chiefly science f ...