In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat. The idea of the Christmas Celebration is taken out from the Gospel books of the bible. England has only known seven white Christmases in the entire twentieth...

“Islam” means “peace through the submission to God”. Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the world. Approximately one out of every five people today designate their religion as Islam. Islam is not a cult. Its followers...

World War 1 or the First World War, 1914 - 1918, was the first war that involved nations spanning more than half the globe. The war was fought by the Allies on one side, and the Central Powers on the other. The assassination of Archduke Franz...

The fifty stars on the flag represent the 50 U.S. states and the 13 stripes represent the original thirteen colonies that rebelled against the British monarchy and became the first states in the Union. The five pointed stars is used as symbol in...

In China, early government-produced news sheets, called tipao, circulated among court officials during the late Han dynasty (second and third centuries AD). The first modern newspapers were products of western European countries like Germany...

Eiffel Tower has been named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in Paris. Eiffel Tower is painted every 7 years. It gets covered in 3 shades of brown, with the darkest one at the bottom. Eiffel...

The first dinosaur skeleton that was complete enough to be reassembled was discovered in 1858 by William Parker Foulke, in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Foulke heard that gigantic bones had been found in a marl pit, and he investigated. Many more bones...

The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France. Total weight of the Statue of Liberty is 225 tons (or 450,000 pounds) .The height of the Statue of Liberty is 152 feet or...

No matter how warm he feels, Hitler will never take off his coat in public. Hitler had only one testicle. The word "Stalin" means 'man of steel and wasn't his real name. He was from Georgia so his real name wasJoseph Dshugashvili. His mother was a...

In 2005 Sony hired painters which draw 7 walls in different towns of USA as an advertisement of Playstation Portable. The first console to have games available in the form of add-on cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F console, introduced in...

The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt were built as tombs for Kings (and Queens), and it was the exclusive privilege to have a Pyramid tomb. Most of the pyramids can be found on the western side of the Nile River, just into the dry desert.The reason they...

Mahatma literally translates to 'great soul' in Sanskrit. He went to England when he was 19 to study law. In 1930 Gandhi led hundreds of followers on a 240-mile march to the sea, where they made salt from seawater in protest against the British...