by Thomas B. | Dec 9, 2022 | Articles, Strange, Travel
Veijo Rönkkönen was a loyal employee who went to work every day at a paper mill for 41 years. He never went anywhere but work and home. He lived on a farm surrounded by dense forest. And almost nobody knew of this Finnish factory worker until his death in 2010. When...
by Thomas B. | Dec 9, 2022 | Articles
The Tiffany Yellow Diamond is the largest yellow diamond ever discovered. The diamond weighted 287.42 carats in rough when discovered in the Kimberley Mine in 1878. One year later, the diamond was cut into a cushion shape of 128.54 carats with 82 facets. That was 24...
by Thomas B. | Dec 8, 2022 | Articles, History, Nature
Some call it Sigiriya. Others call it Sinhagiri. In any case, it is an ancient rock fortress located in the northern Matala District near the town of Dambulla, in Sri Lanka. The site is of historical and archaeological significance. Dominated by a massive column of...
by Thomas B. | Dec 6, 2022 | Articles, Business
Jesse Livermore, born in Massachusetts in 1877, is the pioneer of trading. He was just 15 years old when he started to work in Paine Webber’s Boston brokerage office. His job was a simple one, post the stock and commodities prices on the chalk board. But Jesse was...
by Thomas B. | Dec 6, 2022 | Articles, Gambling
ONE-OF-A-KIND HIGH ROLLER Poker world is full of incredible, great stories about people who made their dreams come true. After all, it is one of the reasons this widely popular game became a worldwide phenomenon, played by dozens of millions across the globe. But even...
