It's that time of year to watch an 8-year-old outwit two adults with progressively zanier traps. The holiday classic "Home Alone" is slipping back into movie nights and Disney+ queues as the Christmas...
12.01.2023 Usatoday.com and 78 sitesVenezuela is one of the most highly-urbanised countries in Latin America. It has some of the world's largest proven oil deposits as well as huge quantities of coal, iron ore, bauxite and gold. It has ...
12.04.2023 Yahoo.com and 1 sitesCopenhagen, Nov 22, 2023 -How was the air breathed by Caesar, the Prophet Mohammed or Christopher Columbus? A giant freezer in Copenhagen holds the answers, storing blocks of ice with atmospheric tale...
12.02.2023 Indiatimes.comT he arrival of Christopher Columbus and the conquistadors in the Americas led to the destruction of empires and civilisations and the deaths of millions in the new world – not by war, but from the wa...
11.30.2023 Theguardian.com and 1 sitesA cluster of cases of ocular syphilis has been reported in Michigan. The five women infected all contracted the disease from the same sexual partner. While ocular syphilis is not that common overall, accounting for 1% of all syphilis cases this probably represents an underestimate of its prevalence. Why is this important? Ocular syphilis has been described as the great imitator. It can manifest in a multitude of ways and as such the diagnosis can be missed. This is important because it can easil...
12.01.2023 Wnd.com and 7 sitesSomebody buttonholed Tournament of Roses President Robert Cheney at a recent meeting and tried to read him the riot act about the crimes of Columbus, whose arrival in the New World 500 years ago will ...
12.02.2023 Latimes.comWe tend to feel pretty high and mighty about the average human’s knowledge level nowadays: “Ancient civilizations thought there was a wolf god in the sky, what idiots! ” Remember, you were lucky enoug...
12.05.2023 Cracked.comWith about 2, 000 restaurants in Delaware, there are plenty of places to grab a bite and a drink to go with it. But some of those dining rooms and bars especially stand out when it comes to their liba...
12.02.2023 Middletowntranscript.com and 2 sitesThey say history is written by the victors, but sometimes it is rewritten, and rewritten. The latest rewrite occurred in the 1950s. ‘I Was Teaching a Lot of Misconceptions. ’ The Way American Kids Are...
11.30.2023 Dianacorner.blogspot.com and 1 sitesI decided to expand on my recent ramble about the war graves which included the short description of the Battle of Trafalgar and Admiral Collingwood’s report on the battle – this has inspired me to write about the enormous – and unsung – influence th...
12.02.2023 Yorkshirebylines.co.uk and 1 sites