Over 40 years ago, on the 30th of March 1981, the President of the United States Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. He was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at…
Over 40 years ago, on the 30th of March 1981, the President of the United States Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. He was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at…
Over 50 years ago the Apollo 13 mission to land on the moon was launched from Kennedy Space Centre. Over the years from the commencement of space exploration, 12 Americans have actually walked on the moon and another 12 have…
In 1988, four friends climbed Mount Lyell, the highest peak in the Yosemite National Park. Their base camp was less than 2000 feet from the peak, but the climb to the top and back was to take the better part…
Is any member of your family afraid of getting stung? I remember many years ago going on a picnic with my uncle’s family. We had driven to a very beautiful spot to go for a walk and then to have…
William Boyd Watterson II was born July 5, 1958. He is an American cartoonist who authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. His parents were Kathryn and James Watterson and he had a brother Thomas. His father worked as a…
P. Pilgrim In July 2023 a baby giraffe was born with no hexagonal spots at a Zoo in Tennessee, USA. This is an incredibly rare event, and experts believe that she is the only solid-coloured reticulated giraffe living anywhere in…
P. Pilgrim In society today knowing the time is as simple as looking at the phone or wristwatch and seeing an accurate display of the time. Time is something that has been in the world since its beginning. The sun…
The Delphi city today is a world heritage site in the region on the south-western slope of Mount Parnassus in Greece. It is now an extensive archaeological site, and since 1938 a part of Parnassos National Park. The precinct is…
P. Pilgrim One of mankind’s oldest and most basic forms of recreational combat is wrestling. It traces its origins back to the dawn of civilization as carvings and drawings have been found in caves in southern Europe. These drawings illustrated…
Over the past few weeks much speculation has resurfaced about the final hours of the world famous aviator Emelia Earhart. During an attempt at becoming the first woman to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a…