by Thomas B. | Oct 18, 2022 | Articles, Travel
Imagine living on a tennis court in the middle of a river. That is how life looks on the world’s smallest inhabited island. If you enter the coordinates 44°20′33.5″N 75°55′29.5″W, you will be just at the location of the island. The island lies on the Saint Lawrence...
by Thomas B. | Oct 18, 2022 | Articles, Food/Drink
Italy is the largest wine producer in the world. The country is head to head with France for most wine production regions. But Italy leads the way in the past few years. The country combines a long history of wine-making with an ideal climate. Add in more than one...
by Thomas B. | Oct 17, 2022 | Articles, Philosophy
Even though no one speaks Latin as their first language any more, many people study it in school. At the turn of the 20th century, more than 50% of all US public high school students took Latin as their foreign language. Often described as a dead language, but that is...
by Thomas B. | Oct 17, 2022 | Articles, Crime
Richard Kuklinski was a hit man who worked for the mafia in New York from the 1960s all the way to the 1980s. He had a long and “prosperous” career working for the mafia. According to many people around, he was known to have a quick temper which would flare up. He...
by Thomas B. | Oct 16, 2022 | Articles, Religion
People always felt a strong need to get close to objects that are associated with Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity. In recent years, we’ve seen Jesus appearing on a toast, on foreskin, and on many other objects that people believed have some religious mystery...
