South Korea and North Korea are two separate countries located on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. South Korea, also known as the Republic of Korea, is a democratic country and a member of the United Nations. North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is a […]
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Regent’s Mosque: Who Built a First Ever Mosque in London?
Islam is the second major religion of the world after Christianity. The Saudi twin cities are regarded as the heartland of Islam where the enormous Muslim crowds are gathered mainly to perform their mandatory annual religious ritual known as Hajj through different cheap hajj packages. As per the UK, about […]
Causes of Genocides: Lessons Not Yet Learned
Genocide is deliberate extermination of a group of people. Usually those are ethnic, religious, or racial groups. Millions of people were brutally murdered through genocides over the course of history. Yet they happen anyway. Even a single genocide is one too many but unfortunately, there were more than a dozen […]
The Advent of Hypnotherapy
As hard as this may be for you to believe, the actual history of hypnotherapy dates as far back as recorded history. Perhaps not as well-documented or recorded as other historical facts out there but nonetheless, shamen, witchdoctors, Hindu fakirs, tribal doctors and Indian yogis across centuries and millennia have […]
Business Quotes From United States Presidents [Infographic]
When you think of United States Presidents, you normally do not think of business leaders. While some may have come from a business background, their job is to lead the country. However, many quotes that have come from past Presidents can be adopted to fit business situations. If you are […]
History of Film and Cinema: A Brief Overview
Over the past few decades, we have seen cinema grow from a novelty to the most popular medium of art and entertainment in the world. Movies have become the new medium of storytelling, giving viewers the opportunity to experience interesting, hilarious, bizarre and even impossible things from a third person […]
Alternatives to Tyres
Tyres have become such a ubiquitous part of modern transport that it's difficult to see how we could do without them. Isn't it? Tyres. How could we ever envisage a transport system without them? As the point of contact between the vehicle and the surface, they are arguably the main […]
Great Benefits of Documenting Local History and Culture
We can say that we live in a very important point in time, a period where the internet has allowed the vast majority of the population to access seemingly limitless amounts of information, people to engage in face-to-face conversation with their peers from across the world, and popular culture to […]
UK's Royal Navy Carrier Named in Honor of Queen Elizabeth II
At Fife's Rosyth Dockyard ceremony, a new vessel was named officially in the honor of Queen Elizabeth II. She says that the largest warship of the UK indicatesa new stage in the naval history. On the body of HMS Queen Elizabeth, a whisky bottle was smashed and this 65000-tonne Royal […]
Top Craziest Construction Accidents in History
OSHA has encountered some significant worker safety violations over the lifetime of their organization. Many of these violations were preventive and actually saved workers from serious injury or death. All of OSHA mandated safety procedures are important to the longevity and prosperity of hard-working manufacturing, construction, and test research workers […]
Independence in Different Traditions
Since I was probably around seven years old, every July fourth I would run to the top of my street dressed in red, white, and blue, and watch along with the rest of my neighborhood as marching bands and policemen and firefighters and students and soldiers and flags and everything […]
People from History who Made Maths Cool
Mathematics- it's very much a marmite subject. There are kids who see numbers and equations and fall into a state of confusion and dread. And there are others who cannot help but find correlations and interesting patterns in any mathematical content we present to them. But pupils need not have […]