Born as Diocles around 244 CE near Salona in rugged Dalmatia, the future emperor grew up far from Rome’s marble forums and closer to the clamour of frontier camps. His origins were modest—later writers call his father a scribe or freedman—and that obscurity proved a forge. As a teenage recruit he learned soldiering on the Danube, where pay arrived late, boots wore through, and victories depended on logistics more than glory. Diocles advanced by reliability: he kept ledgers as carefully as he kep

Before gunpowder, before jet skis, there were kilts — and dolphins. According to tongue-in-cheek Highland legend, The Kilted Dolphin Riders were Scotland’s most daring sea warriors, who would charge Viking longships astride trained dolphins. No saddles, no reins — just “pure hydrodynamic suction.” Their bold tactics struck fear into Norse invaders, who described them as “sea demons rising from the surf.” These semi-aquatic Scots became the stuff of legend — their clan names whispered through tav

Around 1000 AD, Viking explorers who reached North America brought back more than timber and tales. Genetic studies reveal that a Native American woman journeyed back with them to Iceland. Her unique lineage, passed quietly through generations, survived for nearly a thousand years before being rediscovered by modern DNA research. This astonishing link proves that contact between the Old and New Worlds happened centuries before Columbus, and that her story lived on, written not in words, but in g