Siege is a long-lasting blockade of some city (or a fortress) with the goal to take it by military force, either with starving its population and military. Siege started by surrounding the city (fortress) and cutting all forms of supply, after which the military attacks started with the help of siege forces or bombardment.
Category: SOCIETY
10 BIGGEST WAR SIEGES IN HISTORY
10 STATES WITH LARGEST NUMBER OF SUICIDES
The word suicide comes from a Latin word: sui-self, occidere-kill. One of commonly accepted definitions of suicide tells that it is a self-destructive act with the goal to take away your own life. Self-destructive behavior, beside suicides, also includes the attempt of suicide, planning or just thinking about it and all types of self-injuring.
10 CRAZIEST LEADERS IN HISTORY
Everlasting dilemma of old but also today’s philosophers, is the leader born or is he made? Is there something in DNA that determines who will be the leader and who will not (no matter how much he tries in life)?
10 UNUSUAL LAST REQUESTS BEFORE THE EXECUTION OF THE DEATH SENTENCE
Electric chair, lethal injection, rope or guillotine… Those are just some of the ways in which the worst criminals leave this world. Some are calm and at peace with their destiny, while others cry and beg for forgiveness.
10 COUNTRIES IN WHICH CITIZENS OWN MOST GUNS
Contrary to pacifist massages and campaigns of organizations from all over the world, citizens of many countries, still own large amount of guns. An extensive research came up with the discovery that in some countries every other citizen owns some form of armament.
10 UNSOLVED AND MISTERIOUS MUREDRS OF KNOWN AND FAMOUS PEOPLE
Although their deaths, according to official data, are solved long ago and cases are closed, there are many of those that such untold conclusions never accept, because of which still new conspiracy theories come to the surface. In the world of known and famous, during previous decades numerous mysterious murders and suicides, and some of them are still unsolved.
10 STRANGEST PRISONS IN THE WORLD
Are you aware of the situation in prisons? Answer to this question is not known by most people…. We know about prisons only from movies and TV shows. But is reality like that? Electric shocks, beating, solitaries without water, or luxury accommodation with restaurants, hotels, children’s playground and a gym, all this exists and all this is possible in 10 strangest prisons in the world.
10 MOST ISOLATED AND WILD TRIBES ON THE PLANET
Today we live in a world of globalization where people are more connected and differences between different cultures are lost. Therefore it is strange that there are people that live in complete isolation from the rest of the world. Those are mostly tribes that live in a “hunting-collecting societies”, unaltered for thousands of years, and are completely isolated for history and the rest of the world.
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