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Visions of utopias and dystopias represented focus of many philosophers and novelist over the last two centuries. With those themes filling the modern media and literature, here you can find the origins, influences and most notable examples of those futuristic concepts.

Plenty of information about the famous pirates, piracy throughout history and details about pirate's life and fiction.

Guitars have followed us through entire modern history of mankind, from fist civilizations to modern times when we have access to thousands of years of experience with music, manufacturing and fashion. Here you can start learning more about history of guitar.

As our civilization rose from the ashes of the world population started prehistoric times and to rise, concept of prisons became more and more used by ancient civilizations.Here you can find all about history of prisons, famous prisons and famous prison breaks.

Today, paper represents an integral part of our daily lives, but during the long journey of paper through our history it had only few advances that enabled it to become as popular as it is today. Read here more about history of paper and most interesting facts of its expansion.

Fast food, at the first glance, looks like a product of modern society and fast life but we eat fast food for almost two millennia. Even Ancient Romans had their street vendors that sold fast food to them. Read about history of fast food.

They stand as objects of beauty, ingenuity and pride for people that built them and the whole humanity. Here you can find the list of the most famous bridges in the world.

Here you can read about history of bicycles from velocipede to modern bicycles including invention of all bicycle-like machines.

Pencils and pens are very old writing tools (which were first used some 5000 years ago) but are still used today despite the electronic technology that we use for communication. Here you can read more about history of pencils and other writing instruments.

In order to preserve food or to cool themselves when the weather is too hot, people tried to find the way to lower the temperature. In the beginning they used the ice and snow from nature but in time they found the way to lower the temperature artificially. Read more about history of refrigeration.

Famous castles have been created on all four corners of the world in the last 1200 years, but the majority originates from medieval Europe where warfare, wealth and dramatic changes of fashion and technology enabled creation of true architectural masterpieces.

Mermaids are supernatural aquatic creatures that are most often depicted with a torso of beautiful woman and a fish like tail. Male counterparts are called mermen, and their species merfolk or merpeople.

The first microwave oven appeared in the middle of the 20th century and it came a long way since then - from expensive and bulky early models to cheap and practical modern kitchen appliance in almost every home.

Since the dawn of human civilization, constant need of human expansion set the army of explorers to discover new lands and new routes to travel across the unfamiliar terrain.

Photography appeared in 19th century but its roots originate from 5th century BC. Here you can learn more about history of photography including the discovery of the principle of the camera obscura.

History of spaghetti and pasta started long time ago in Italy and Sicily, and from the moment when those incredible meals managed to catch foothold in the rest of the Europe, their rise to the height of the popularity across the entire world was unstoppable. Find out more about their history here.