Reading Time: 2 minutesHe was the prime example of medieval gluttony. King Henry VIII of England was an over weight, over sexed and it would appear, out of control when it comes to marriages and religion. Most portraits of the king show a man who is clearly obese, or extremely over weight at best. But he wasn’t always […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesNow it’s time for the fascinating history of the ice cream cone. It’s probably not an item that you would really place too much thought into. That’s aside from price, flavor, shape and size. In all honesty, most of us would be more concentrated on the special desert being placed inside the receptacle than the cone
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Reading Time: 2 minutesPerhaps the most famous of all UFO sightings and experiences would be that of the UFO sighting and apparent crash on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, USA on July 7, 1947. On that occasion, what has been described as an unidentified airborne object was observed by several witnesses, and this object crashed. The United
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Reading Time: 2 minutesYou have to admire human ingenuity. When there’s a will, there’s a way, and German pilots during WWII proved that point exceedingly well during their unwelcome time in North Africa. What exactly did they do? The WWII German pilots figured out how to cool down Coca Cola bottles in the hot and harsh environment of
Reading Time: 2 minutesDid you know that can openers were invented after cans? But why was the can opener invented after cans? It has a little to do with progression of the food preservation industry, and a lack of a real need to make opening the cans easier. In a modern world where we take so much for
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Reading Time: 2 minutesFor an organization that has secret in their name, they aren’t all that secret. But they have managed to keep one part of their job, the main part, a little secret, albeit accidentally. This is despite it having always been know. The main job of the secret service if to investigate counterfeiting and other financial
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Reading Time: 2 minutesUncle Sam, the national personification of the American government was actually a meat packer from Troy, New York. That’s right, the authoritative looking and some would say tough looking Uncle Sam was a meat packer, nothing more. So how did a man from such a simple background come to become such a prominent figure in American
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Reading Time: 3 minutesOh my, could the world have been very different. On the fateful day that the Titanic sank, the planned lifeboat drill for that day had been cancelled. When compared to the monetary blunders throughout history, this must take the cake, because human life is priceless. So lets look deeper to understand why the cancelling of
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you hear the phrase “the luck of the Irish,” most people consider it to be a term of endearment. But it’s origin is far from a loving one, in fact it was coined with a fair bit of disdain towards the Irish. That’s right, the origin of “luck of the Irish” was a racist
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen the unsinkable Titanic sank on April 15, 1912 it shook the world, but the events of the Titanic may have been unwittingly predicted fourteen years earlier. An American author of the late 19th and early 20th century by the name of Morgan Robertson, published a book called Futility in 1898 that had eerie similarities
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