From having the oldest Buddhist temple in the country to one of the largest aquariums in the world, here are 7 interesting facts about Osaka.
The Japanese eat more fish than any other people in the world, about 17 million tons per year. Japan is the world’s largest importer of seafood, with shrimp comprising about one third of the total, about four million tons a year. More than 20% of Japanese protein is obtained through fi...
Being one of the major oil exporters, you’d think that the UAE doesn’t really care about the environment and clean sources of energy, but they actually do. They were one of the few countries that asked for a renewal of the Kyoto Protocol with regard to lowering the man-made carbon di...
21-25 Interesting Facts About Castles 21. A British man named Robert Fidler asked for permission to build a mini castle on his farm. Permission was not granted, so he built it secretly and hid it behind haystacks for 4 years, believing that if nobody complained for 4 years he could keep...
aA dictionary contains a definition of friendship somewhere in the F’s between the words “fear” and “Friday.” An encyclopedia supplies interesting facts on friendship. But all the definitions and facts do not convey what friendship is really all about. It cannot be understood through words ...
Married and bisexual, he was one of the first prominent men in Britain known to have contracted HIV and died of AIDS, although he hid the facts of his illness. Bruce Chatwin and his notebooks: Interview to the wife Elizabeth. BRUCE LEE - (1940-1973). Chinese American, martial artist, ...
Global warming has been inevitable, its just speeding up at an alarming rate all thanks to the americans refusing to sign the kyoto agreement, there was a chance. I mean how could one be as stupid to vote bush a SECOND TIME. He’s a mass murderer of men, women and children and a fa...
Japan is comprised of 8 regions (Hokkaidō, Tōhoku, Kantō, Chūbu, Kinki, Chūgoku, Shikoku and Kyūshū and Okinawa) grouping 47 prefectures: a metropolitan district (都; To), Tokyo; A province (道; Dō), Hokkaidō; Two urban prefectures (府; Fu), Osaka and Kyoto; And 43 rural prefec...