‘ The Amazing Growth of the Christmas Tree’ Who would have imagined that one day the modest tree would be a huge global achievement? A couple of hundred years ago? Of course not Martin Luther, who is said to have decorated a tree with candles to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Nor Prince Albert, who set up the first Christmas […]
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Was Abraham Lincoln Our First Gay President? In an interview with Axios on HBO, the South Bend, the Ind. mayor was asked how the critics who considered him too old, too radical and too gay would respond. Pete Buttigieg felt that he would likely not be the first gay president if he was elected in 2020. “We have had excellent […]
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A 2000-year-old preserved loaf of bread found in the ruins of Pompeii The violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius is considered to be one of the greatest natural catastrophes of the ancient world, when several cities in the Bay of Naples were covered in ash and rock and left just as they stood on that fateful day in 79 AD. The […]
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The 90,000-year-old hybrid of two extinct human species has been uncovered by scientists A piece of bone, barely larger than a quarter, has given archeologists their recent major scientific breakthrough. A study published in Nature on 22 August examined the piece of bone and found that the former girl from whom the fragment belonged was an unknown hybrid of two ancient […]
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Roopkund is a lake in India famous for the mysterious ancient skeletons that float in its waters The view of an enormous pile of skulls and bones tangled under the water surface is quite enticing. You wonder who they are, and especially how they came here first because that lake is 16,000 feet above sea level and there is nothing […]
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