The Berlin Wall was a fortified barrier that once divided East and West Berlin. It was constructed by the communists in the mid-20th century to stop East Germans, who were under communist government, from defecting to the West and to other European...

The ancient Egyptian pharaohs had magnificent burials, and much in the way of gold and other precious materials was interred with them. Every effort was made to keep the tombs from being rifled and the contents stolen, even to the extent of placing...

Though there is much geological evidence showing the earth is ancient, and though scientists estimate the universe began billions of years ago, not everybody believes it. Some religious people prefer to believe the estimate of 16th Century Anglican...

Lancaster County is home to the Pennsylvania Dutch, a mix of "church people," such as Lutherans and Moravians, and "plain people," such as the Amish and Mennonites, many of whom refuse to blend with or adopt the conveniences of modern society. The...

Rockets already existed when Isaac Newton described how a cannon could theoretically fire around the world. They were invented most likely by the Chinese in the thirteenth century. The early Chinese rockets were essentially arrows with a small rocket...

Joan of Arc was born in 1412 in France and died in 1431. When Joan was thirteen years old, she claimed she heard God's voice telling her she was chosen by him to help him and to do great super human things. Three years later she again claimed she...

For the brides, the wedding day is often regarded as a special day, therefore for this event the bride should be dressed with something really special. It can be said that wedding dress is as old as marriage itself, but the dress in the form we all...

When we go up in an overcrowded bus and maybe with no air conditioning we will certainly l transpire with next t o dozen other bodies. Perhaps in that moment we want the public transportation to not ever been invented and people to continued to go on...

I think socks are among the greatest things invented by humanity. I do not know how the world would have looked without the steam engine but without socks i'm sure that would be terribly cold. As proof that the socks were extremely important in the...

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire. Stonehenge was built between 3100 – 1100 BCE. It contains approximately 80 giant stones standing upright in a circle with five capping stones, called "trilithons,"...

Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863.Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October in Canada. The First Thanksgiving was celebrated to give...

The name 'Viking' comes from a language called 'Old Norse' and means 'a pirate raid'. The Vikings had been living in the Scandinavian lands (Sweden, Denmark and Norway) for more than a thousand years. Dublin was founded by Viking raiders in the...