Qamar The Vintage News Oct 3, 2018 Marea Harris The roller-skating phenomena started in Belgium when inventor John Joseph Merlin created a modified ice skate in 1760, with wheels attached in place of the blade. He’d seen the ease and speed with which expert ice-skaters moved, and looked for a way to make skating available outside of the … Read more
by Piyush Sharma Everybody makes mistakes, as it is only human. But there are a very few among us who actually learn from our mistakes. The first step is to accept your mistake and make peace with it, and only then can you expect yourself to make a change. This is what celebrated author Paulo Coelho … Read more
by Mary Rita Schilke KorzanWhen you thought I wasn’t looking You hung my first painting on the refrigerator And I wanted to paint another. When you thought I wasn’t looking You fed a stray cat And I thought it was good to be kind to animals. When you thought I wasn’t looking You baked a birthday … Read more
May 8, 2018 by Paulo Coelho For a good part of my life, one of those stories left me very intrigued: the myth of Psyche. Once upon a time … a beautiful princess was admired by all but nobody dared to ask for her hand in marriage. In despair, the king consulted the god Apollo, who … Read more
November 29, 2018 by Paulo Coelho Give us this day, Lord, our daily miracle. Miracles tear away the veils and change everything, but do not let us see what lies behind the veils. They allow us to escape unharmed from the valley of the shadow of death, but do not tell us which road led us to … Read more
The Vintage News May 1, 2018 Nikola Budanovic A recent archaeological find on the island of Öland in southwest Sweden offers an insight into the daily life of Norse people during the period of the Scandinavian Migrations, which coincided with the wider movement of peoples around Europe between 400 and 550 A.D. The earliest evidence of … Read more
The Vintage News Aug 22, 2018 Stefan Andrews As Margaret Dickson was consigned to the gallows on Edinburgh’s historic Grassmarket on September 2, 1724, it is unlikely that anyone attending her public execution thought they would see the woman alive again afterward. The day of the hanging should have been just another ordinary day, with a … Read more
