As part of the making of the documentary series A brief history of disbelief, Jonathan Miller filmed conversations with some very distinguished minds. In this innovative series, a neurologist turned playwright and atheist Jonathan Miller interviewed six of today’s leading men of letters and science. New York Times best-selling author Richard Dawkins, philosophers Daniel Dennett … Read more
On November 8th, 1965, the 173rd Airborne Brigade on Operation Hump, War Zone D in Vietnam were ambushed by over 1200 V.C. Forty-eight American soldiers lost their lives that day. Severely wounded and risking his own life, Lawrence Joll, a medic, was the first living black man since the Spanish-American War to receive the United … Read more
Victor Hugo is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time. His wide palette of masterpieces includes: Les Miserables, the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Man Who Laughs, the Last day of the Condemned Man, Les Orientales and many others. Hugo died on May 22, 1885, and this year, it marks 130 years … Read more
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, unicyclists, as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists. Most of us have seen or visited a circus during our life. But how much … Read more
When you think of Greek Gods, you think of power. Zeus is the absolute synonym of power. The All-mighty God of the Thunder is the most powerful God ever known. The folklore behind Greek Gods is different than folklore from other cultures. The main difference is that Greek Gods resembled humans in emotions, nature, and … Read more
Dunlop is a brand of tires owned by various companies around the world. The company was founded by pneumatic tire pioneer John Boyd Dunlop in Birmingham, England in 1889. Back then, John changed the world with a single invention. After watching his son’s rough ride on solid rubber bicycle tires in 1888, Dr. John Dunlop … Read more
Hieroglyphs are characters used in a system of pictorial writing. They were used on ancient Egyptian monuments. They can represent objects that they depict, but usually they stand for particular sounds or groups of sounds. They were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt. They combine logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements. There are a … Read more
The mysteries of Asia series of three-part video was originally produced for The Learning Channel. During this segment, historians and others examine temples built in India over 1,000 years ago. They remain quite intriguing, though today’s tourists rarely visit. Records reveal that trained elephants had to drag millions of stone blocks to build these structures. … Read more
Both the United States and the Soviet Union drifted apart after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Russian Civil War and the Paris Peace Conference. Diplomatic and extensive trading relationships were established under Roosevelt, but relations soured following the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States and eastern Poland. After Hitler broke the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact the … Read more
The “mother road” as some like to call it is the most iconic highway in the United States. Immortalized in a song, “Get your Kicks on Route 66”, and in literature, “The Grapes of Wrath”, Route 66 represented a feeling of freedom for many Americans through the years. The highway stretches from Chicago to Los … Read more