King Edward was the first to be buried here in January 1066. From then until 1760, some 13 kings of England - including Henry V and Henry VII, four reigning queens including Elizabeth I, 11 queen consorts and two other queens, including Mary Queen of Scots - ...
I can't remember when I began to love music. Maybe it happened when I was feeling blue sometime long ago. It's hard for me to tell how music makes me feel better. But while listening to music, especially light music, I feel calm and peaceful. Now I am listening to a song named ...
Past Voicesgives ourancestorsa voice – and these voices from the past come alive in their letters. Letter writing has long been an important mode of interpersonal and official communication. As long ago as 3500 BC, Sumerians sent “letters” written on cuneiform tablets in clay “envelopes”....
Once Freymann and Tolman had discovered their fiber, it was relatively simple to build a part-electrical, part-mechanical smoke detector around it: A length of the magic fiber (yellow) is stretched around a wheel (red) inside a metal container (gray) with holes at the bottom through which...
It was as if God spoke the words directly to me. I determined to go to church, even if I had to humiliate myself by going in my old winter dress. The Lord was true to His promise; I can still feel the power the resurrection messages had upon my heart that day so long ago. And...
If they face the 2038 problem head-on without a fix, we could see payments failing, accounts showing transactions from 1901, or your online banking app might lock you out, thinking your last login was over a century ago. Power grids, water treatment facilities, and more, could experience op...
We arrived at a transition: A few years ago, there was still a common phrase in the recipe sections of magazines: Just eat and cook completely intact fruits and vegetables! cooking! Today, due to the impact of what might be called bio-lifestyle, we read this less often, and the “ecol...
Then all the nymphs kissed Perseus, and wept over him a long while; but he was only impatient to be gone. And at last they put the hat upon his head, and he vanished out of their sight. But Perseus went on boldly, past many an ugly sight, far away into the heart of the Unshape...
A rumor dating back to 1909 whispered that President Theodore Roosevelt banned them in 1901 because he was an environmentalist. Sri Lanka lays claim to putting up the world's largest artificial Christmas tree. Canva Pro Sri Lanka lays claim to putting up the world's largest artificial Christmas...
Have you ever wondered why we hang stockings above the fireplace? Did you know that Santa Claus was a real person? Where did the idea for a Christmas tree come from? Read on to discover the answers to these questions and many more unique Christmas facts.24...