When you think of the 90s, you think of awesome pop music, and great cartoons. Among those cartoons, I am sure many will remember Dexter’s Laboratory as one of their favorites. Well, Dexter was a fan favorite of the woman behind the curtains as well. Betty Cohen, the woman that founded Cartoon Network loved Dexter. … Read more
Lombard Street in San Francisco is known as the world’s most crookedest street. It is an east-west street in San Francisco, famous for its steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. But it turns out, Lombard is not even the crookedest in San Francisco, as that honor belongs to Vermont Street. Despite that, Lombard is … Read more
Poker might be our favorite game to play at the casinos but they offer far much more than poker to their customers. The games appear beatable but are mathematically designed to give the house an ongoing and unbeatable edge over the long term. Short term wins are possible and sometimes these short term wins are great fun … Read more
An earthquake is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes range in size from weak, to violent enough to shatter an entire city. So far in history, there have been a couple of earthquakes that left cities in … Read more
Kristallnacht, or better known as the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians in Nazi Germany. It occurred on the night of November 9th, and lasted until November 10. Many consider it the beginning of the Holocaust. During the event, German authorities looked on without … Read more
A bizarre new form of carbon could become the rival to diamonds. Scientists have called this glow-in-the-dark magnetic material Q-carbon. The material is the third known solid phase or form of the carbon element, following graphite and diamond. But Q-carbon is actually even harder and brighter than naturally formed diamonds. All of which makes the … Read more
Born Joseph Hubertus Pilates, he was a German physical trainer, credit with inventing and promoting Pilates as a method of physical fitness. Nowadays, Pilates is one of the more popular workout methods. But that wasn’t the case in the early 1900s when Joseph was inventing the training method. Quick Bio Joseph was born on December … Read more
Colmar is an adorable small French town that looks like a preserved medieval village. There are traditional half-timbered houses, abundance of overflowing flower pots, and uneven cobblestone streets. If you have ever seen Beauty and the Beast, this is the city that inspired most of the looks in the movie. With just little under … Read more
If you ignore the exclusion zone surrounding North Sentinel Island, you may end up dead. Yes, the island located far into the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous tribe that wants to live in isolation. The North Sentinel Island is widely considered the most isolated island in … Read more
ADC Florence is the name of the American federal prison in Fremont County near Florence, Colorado. Operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the ADC Florence opened in 1994. It is classified as supermax prison or control unit prison. That means the prison provides a higher and more controlled level of custody than a maximum … Read more