Facts About All

 1. As a schoolboy in 1940, Fidel Castro wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt asking for a ten-dollar bill and offering to l...

 1. Benito Mussolini was born in Dovia di Predappio, a small town in the province of Forlì in Emilia-Romagna in 1883 2. Benito Mussol...

1. The name emerald is a derivative of an ancient Persian word, coming to us through the corruption of the Latin « Smaragdus ». 2. The f...

1. Born: September 3, 1965 in New York City 2. Charlie Sheen earns $350,000 an episode for Two and Half Men 3. He loves his 1970 B...

1. Belgium was the scene of Napoleon's final defeat, at Waterloo, south of Brussels. 2. The St Nicholas Church, one of the oldest ...

Five nations in Africa border the Mediterranean Sea, and many other African countries border the Atlantic Ocean. But only one African nat...

The hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30. It is rare, but hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic as early as March or as late...

The word "volcano" has its origin in the name of Vulcan (the Greek Hephaestus), god of fire in Roman mythology. The Earth ha...

Maybe you've ever felt that it wasn't necessary to use a soap to wash your hands and that with just water you could wash just a...

Sound travels in waves, in the same way that waves of water travel in the ocean. When you make a sound, the sound waves travel through th...

If someone laughs 100 times, it's like riding a 15-minute bike. An energetic laugh increases your heart rate, deepens your breathing a...

You are more likely to be infected by meat-eating bacteria ( necrotizing fasciitis ) than to be struck by lightning. According to some ...

In an artesian well, water springs from the ground by itself, without the need for a pump. The name comes from Artois, an area of France ...

Saturn V's rocket, which brought the first men to the Moon , was as tall as a 35-story building. This rocket was built into an assemb...

Hannibal The legendary Hannibal was born in 247 B.C. in Carthage, a city in North Africa, founded centuries earlier by Middle Eastern me...

The substance called fiberglass is used for a wide range of things: boats, bodies, skates, curtains, and even yo-yos. One may wonder w...

The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian artifact that was crucial in the modern understanding of hieroglyphic writing. The stone itsel...

History is full of curious cases such as the following case we present: Menelik II, who called himself "king of kings", became...

The Alps range comprises around 180 mountains from 1,200 m to 4,810 m of Mont Blanc. Mont Blanc is not only the highest mountain in th...

An effective insulator is needed to maintain body temperature in an icy climate. Mammals have hair or fat that isolates their bodies, but hu...