Interesting Facts

Strange but True: In 1952 a German scientist predicted the name “Elon” would be associated with the colonization of Mars

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Courtesy: The Vintage News Feb 11, 2018 Domagoj Valjak The South African-born billionaire businessman and engineer Elon Musk is one of the world’s leading innovators in space travel. His company SpaceX works on the creation of low-cost and energy-efficient spacecraft. It’s possible that those spacecrafts will bring the first humans to Mars in the following decade. If SpaceX … Read more

Association of the Week: The Triangle

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May 21, 2018 by Paulo Coelho The triangle is one of the most elementary symbolic figures due to its geometric aspect: it’s basically the simplest way of linking three points in space with straight lines. Yet not all triangles have the same meaning. In excavations made near to Lepenski Vir in the Danube, there was found many … Read more

Long before she cooked French dishes on TV, Julia Child helped the CIA develop shark repellent

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Courtesy: The Vintage News Jan 2, 2018 Goran Blazeski Photo Credit Lynn Gilbert – CC BY-SA 4.0 The war broke out, and I wanted to do something to aid my country in a time of crisis. I was too tall for the WACs and WAVES, but eventually joined the OSS and set out into the world … Read more

Lisbon’s Belem Tower: The era when Portuguese explorers were all the rage

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Courtesy: The Vintage News Jan 3, 2018 Magda Origjanska In Lisbon, the Belem district is one the most picturesque areas in Portugal’s capital. Many great Portuguese explorers, such as Bartholomeu Dias, who rounded the Cape of Good Hope, Vasco De Gama, who discovered the sea route to India, and even Ferdinand Magellan started their voyages of … Read more

Paleontologists identified a 16,000-year-old horse from the Ice Age found during a Utah family’s backyard renovation

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Courtesy: The Vintage News May 8, 2018 E.L. Hamilton Photo: Thanksgiving Point You never know what you might turn up when you dig in your backyard, aside from bits of glass, rusty nails, and tulip bulbs. One couple in Utah undertaking a renovation project discovered what they thought was the skeleton of a cow. But it … Read more

Anne Boleyn’s bold, feminist, no-nonsense tendencies are what cost her her head

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Courtesy: The Vintage News Dec 4, 2017 Brad Smithfield King Henry VIII’s second wife did not wish to be bossed around by the court. As one of the more controversial figures of the 16th century, Anne Boleyn, the Marquess of Pembroke, was a true fighter of her own cause. Although not exactly regarded as a feminist since she … Read more

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