The Story of The Maya - only one has remained in the Americas!

Fray Diego de Landa wrote of how Maya books, or codices, of “ancient matters and sciences” had been burned because they contained “superstition”. A more four codices survived, only one of which, the Grolier Codex, has remained in the Americas. Link

The Plague of Eyam: The Village That Died to Save Its Neighbors

What a sad – but true – story. It must have been incredibly traumatic for those 90 survivors to watch their loved ones fall to sickness, then death all around!!..Though very sad story, great story of sacrifice for the benefit of greater good. Lot of lessons can be...

An Amazing Journey to The Center of The World!!

While scientists probe the secrets of outer space, much about the world on which we stand remains mysterious. To expand our knowledge, the Russian started a deep borehole drilling program to investigate geological theories about the formation of the earth.The thickness of...

Helen Keller: An Amazing History of the Blind Genius

Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on 27 June, 1880, a normal, healthy child, the pride of her parents. Captain Arthur Keller and his wife Katherine. Arthur Keller was of Swiss descent, had been a Confederate officer in the Civil War, was a stern, firm, upright man-...

Mountains around the World

Around 40 million years ago, the Australian-Indian plate was drifting northwards towards the Eurasian plate. Ancient rock on the sea floor between them was gradually pushed upwards to form the beginnings of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau. Eventually the Indian plate...

The Magnificent Wooden Figures: Reviving an Ancient Art

The Magnificent Wooden Figures: Reviving an Ancient Art Image Credit In Gilroy, California, a specially constructed theme park features the life’s work of farmer Alex Erlandson: 30 trees grow in the park, each of them unique.The collection of trees Erlandson planted...

Shivaji Maharaj: The Greatest Military Genius in Indian History

Shivaji was born in a period of Mughal imperial siesta, with the afterglow of Akbar still illuminating the empire of Jehangir, the Just and Shah Jahan, the Magnificent but being a child of the hills (Aurangzeb called him a mountain rat), Shivaji could spot the shadows that...

Charles Darwin: The Man Who Came Up with The Revolutionary Idea

Darwin did not pursue his interest in plants and animals seriously until he became friend with the cleric and botanist John Steven Henslow at Cambridge University. On Henslow’s recommendation, he was invited to join the naval survey ship, HMS Beagle, as naturalist and...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: The Youngest American First Lady

“I’m sixty-two now, and I’ve been in the public eye for more than 30 years,” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis told a friend in 1991. “I can’t believe anybody still cares about me or is interested in what I do.” How wrong she was. At 31, she was the youngest American...

16 Weird & Amazing Bird Facts Around The World

In Russia the keen eyesight of the pigeon is put to a very practical use for, at one factory in Moscow, they are used to sort ball-bearings. After four or five weeks special training, the birds inspect the ball-bearings as they pass on a conveyor. If any show the least...

29 Fascinating Facts About Plants From Around The World

The largest plants in the world are the giant redwood trees of North America. Sequoias can grow up to 107 m (350 ft) or more in height and may be up to 7.5 m (26 ft) across. They can weight more than nine times as much as a blue whale, the heaviest animal that has ever...

21 Fascinating Facts About Watery of The Earth

At Battlacaloa, Sri Lanka, there is a salt water lake which on calm nights, especially when there is a full moon, emits clear musical notes. The ‘singing’ appears to come from the bottom of the lake and, although no entirely satisfactory explanation has been given, it is...

Gentle Giant: The Tragedy of Lonesome George

When the Galapagos were discovered by Spanish explorers in 1535, hundreds of thousands of giant tortoises roamed the islands. (Galapago is the Spanish word for tortoise.) Survivors of prehistoric times when reptiles were of enormous size, some of the tortoises grow to four...

Strange World: Some Odd Ruling Tales

When the Hapsburg Emperor, Rudolf II, went mad, he allowed lions, tigers and other exotic animals and birds to run free in the empty galleries and corridors. King Louis IX of France “died” of the Plague at the age of twenty nine in 1244. But the King had other ideas for,...