Tag: History

Baby cribs, being the child's first bed, have a most interesting history! The word "bed" initially means the place where a person sleeps - originally no more than a hollow ...

Elephants are the largest land mammal and can be found in both Asia and Africa. African elephants live in areas that are south of the Sahara Desert while Asian elephants ...

Over the last twenty or thirty years, Betta fish have become increasingly popular pets in not only the United States (where there popularity of late has really boomed) but also ...

Anyone that wants to make a living from trading Forex needs to understand the basics of the Forex market to a very reasonable extent. By so doing, there will be ...

Up until the last century, coins were worth something in their own right thanks to their precious metal content whereas today they simply have a token value. While the use ...

In 1882, Joan and Bill Martin began Brahmin Leather Works which was a small entrepreneurial enterprise in Massachusetts. The company began in their home where they were to create handbags ...

The early Spanish explorers of the 1500's found Strawberry Guava, 'Acca sellowiana O.,' growing as a native tree in America, where they were firmly established from Mexico southward to Peru. ...

Bitcoin is the premier cryptocurrency of the world. It is a peer-to-peer currency and transaction system based on a decentralized consensus-based public ledger called blockchain that records all transactions.Now the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, named after Edwin Hubble, was built by NASA, and launched into space in 1990. At the time, astronomers the world over expected great discoveries to be ...