Stefan Andrews
Stefan is a freelance writer and a regular contributor to The Vintage News. He is a graduate in Literature. He also runs a blog – This City Knows.
Articles by Stefan Andrews:
At the first international Olympic Games held in modern history, winners were given a silver medal, while runners-up received a copper medal
Pankration was the Ancient Olympics version of Mixed Martial Arts, and it is the only discipline not reinstated with the creation of Modern Olympics in 1896
Albert Einstein spent 7 years of his adult life trying to improve home refrigeration technology, he invented a refrigerator with no moving parts
Kenzō Tange, one of the most influential architects of the 20-th century, had very poor results in math and physics
When Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud met for the first time, they talked for thirteen hours, virtually without stopping
It is only outside Inuit culture where the word “igloo” refers exclusively to snow-houses
The Red Army troops dynamited the strategically important Dneprostroi Dam during WWII, as Germany invaded the Soviet Union
The Hundred Flowers Movement was the first open criticism in the history of the People’s Republic of China
The Grand Mosque in Paris, under Si Kaddour Benghabrit, saved hundreds of Jews during WWII
The Pioneer cabin tree older than 1,000 years has fallen after a violent storm that hit California
