France was the first modern country to legalize same-sex sexual activity in 1791.[4] In France, one can legally marry a deceased person.[5] Crayola is a French word that means “oily chalk.” Alice Binney, wife of Crayola founder Edward Binney, combined the worldcraie(chalk) withola(a ...
English was originally aWest Germanic languagethat spread across Britain over 14 centuries ago. The initial language, termed asOld English, was possibly brought to the British Isles by Anglo-Saxon settlers from places like Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands. It was later, in the 11th century,...
the Virgin Mary. Soon, the farmers started seeing beneficial ladybugs in their fields, and the crops were miraculously saved from the pests. The farmers began calling the red and black beetles "our lady's birds" or lady beetles. In Germany, these insects...
In 1916, Germany became the first country to officially adopt daylight saving time. It was born out of an effort to conserve coal during World War I, and Britain, along with many other European nations, was quick to follow the Germans’ lead. It wasn’t until 1918 that the time change ...
Ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, For The Win looks back at the all-time Winter Olympic medal count to find some of the strange, interesting and notable facts from 90 years of Winter Games history. 1. The Soviet Union is still third on the all-
21. Filming of Holocaust took Streep to Germany and Austria, while Cazale remained in New York. When she returned, she learned that his illness had progressed severely and she nursed him until his death on March 12, 1978. 22. Six months after Cazale's passing, she married sculptor Don ...
11. Nazi Germany took potshots at Guernica. Due to Guernica’s antifascist message and Adolf Hitler’s personal aversions to modern art, the official German guidebook for Paris’s International Exposition recommended against visiting Picasso’s piece, which it called“a hodgepodge of body parts tha...
RELATED:15 Fascinating Facts About Octavia Butler The procession of the 'undead' marches through a Royal Humane Society banquet. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Given this personal connection to a drowning victim who was resuscitated, it's not surprising that Mary had a strong interest in the bou...
One of science's greatest minds of all time, Albert Einstein, was born on March 14, 1879, at his family's home in Ulm, Germany. He shares his birthday with Pi Day, a celebration of this special never-ending number. Einstein's life in science started early, with him writing his first...
9. In 1986, the car was sold at auction for £2,530 and in 2001 was on display in a museum in Germany. 10. The man standing on the pavement to the right of the picture is Paul Cole an American tourist, who was totally unaware he had been photographed until he saw the ...