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Building for God reached a high point in the Middle Ages when a new engineering movement emerged in Europe.

Temples, designed to honor the Gods, have been at the heart of cities since earliest times; often they have been the biggest and most impressive buildings of their age.

Without water, civilization is simply not possible; Romans took control of their water supplies very, very seriously; in order to keep the taps on, Roman engineers constructed vast networks of aqueducts, tunnels, sewers, and drains.

As far back as the Bronze Age, humans were building ships capable of crossing oceans and trading between continents; perhaps the greatest surviving vessel from the Ancient world, is The Mary Rose, Henry VIII's mighty warship.

An examination of the notorious crimes of Jack the Ripper, among the most infamous serial killer in history, who murdered five women in Whitechapel, England.

An examination of the notorious crimes of Jack the Ripper, among the most infamous serial killer in history, who murdered five women in Whitechapel, England.

In 1911, a gun battle on the streets of London, The Siege of Sidney Street, is the first breaking-news story in history.

Henri Landru targets lonely, vulnerable women left behind by the war and seduces them with promises of marriage; he then lures them to houses outside Paris, where they vanish.

An investigation into Herbert Rowse Armstrong, known to history as "The Hay Poisoner," received a conviction in 1922 of murdering his wife with arsenic.

Putting on the front of a kindly baby farmer, someone who takes in the children of unwed mothers for a fee, Amelia Dyer became the most prolific killer in British history.

An examination of the notorious crimes of Jack the Ripper, among the most infamous serial killer in history, who murdered five women in Whitechapel, England.

An examination of the notorious crimes of Jack the Ripper, among the most infamous serial killer in history, who murdered five women in Whitechapel, England.

In 1911, a gun battle on the streets of London, The Siege of Sidney Street, is the first breaking-news story in history.

Henri Landru targets lonely, vulnerable women left behind by the war and seduces them with promises of marriage; he then lures them to houses outside Paris, where they vanish.

An investigation into Herbert Rowse Armstrong, known to history as "The Hay Poisoner," received a conviction in 1922 of murdering his wife with arsenic.

Putting on the front of a kindly baby farmer, someone who takes in the children of unwed mothers for a fee, Amelia Dyer became the most prolific killer in British history.

An examination of the notorious crimes of Jack the Ripper, among the most infamous serial killer in history, who murdered five women in Whitechapel, England.

An examination of the notorious crimes of Jack the Ripper, among the most infamous serial killer in history, who murdered five women in Whitechapel, England.