The title might suggest something about Bonfire of the Vanities, the movie in which Bruce Willis stared. But it is a more complex event. This documentary takes a historic look at 15th century Florence. At the time, citizens burned art and items that were deemed to be without religious value in demonstrations called “bonfire of the … Read more
United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on board. They used it as part of the September 11 attacks. The plane crashed into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, during an attempt by passengers and crew to regain control. Flight 93 didn’t make it to the World … Read more
Chocolate is a typically sweet, usually brown, food preparation of Theobroma cacao seeds, roasted and ground, often flavored, as with vanilla. It is made in the form of a liquid, paste or in a block or used as a flavoring ingredient in other sweet foods. Cacao has been cultivated by many cultures for at least … Read more
The Republic of Moldova was part of the Soviet Union all up until the 1991. The small country with just 4.5 million citizens is among the top 7 wine exporters in the world, but few people know for it. Wine is the major product of the economy of the country. And among all those wine … Read more
Agro-mining is the process of growing plants that absorb metals from the ground. The science is solid, but will this innovation ever be scalable enough to reduce traditional, destructive mining practices? Environmental effects of mining can occur at local, regional, and global scales through direct and indirect mining practices. The effects can result in erosion, … Read more
This documentary is concerned with the war in Afghanistan and the aftermath of certain operations that were executed by the US military forces. The directors of this film are Sebastian Junger, an American journalist and Tim Hetherington, a British-American photojournalist. In a timeframe of one year which they spent in Afghanistan, Hetherington and Junger documented their experiences. … Read more
Red Onion State Prison is the place where convicts are sent when they are difficult to manage and present disciplinary challenges. It is often viewed as the “cream of the crop” of prisons you cannot escape or present difficulty. The supermax state prison is located in Wise Country, Virginia, near Pound. It was opened by … Read more
Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn’t just suddenly appear one day. In 2011, Genevieve von Petzinger earned international media attention with her discovery of ancient geometric signs from the Ice Age. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled geometric signs across the walls of the caves they … Read more
The Canary Islands are a Spanish archipelago off the coast of northwestern Africa. Famous for their black and white sand beaches, the Canary Islands are dominated by Mt. Teide. The sometimes-active volcano, has its own astronomical observatory and it is part of Teide National Park. Tenerife is the largest among the Canary Islands, and the … Read more
Visit Georgia and you will see five granite slabs rise in a star pattern. Each of the five granite slabs weighs more than 20 tons. And on top of each of them, there is a capstone. The builder of the stones remain mysterious. Why were they placed there? What does it write? There are popular … Read more