Category: Interesting Stories

If you live in North America, you’ve probably heard a story about someone seeing an elusive “black panther” somewhere. And by black panther, I don’t mean the superhero movie that just came out or the black militants who carried guns and wore berets back in the 1960s. No, I’m talking about a big cat with […]

The world of football hooliganism, or soccer as it’s called in North America, is exotic and perplexing to people outside of countries where it is common. But in Europe, Latin America, and parts of Asia and Africa, violence by football team supporters has led to injuries, destruction of property, and even death. And nowhere do […]

Colton Harris Moore—born on March 22, 1991 in the seemingly quiet town of Mount Vernon, Washington—never had an easy life. His parents divorced when he was very young and his stepfather died when he was seven. His father was not around much to provide Colton with a much-needed authority figure and he left the scene […]

You don’t have to be a historian to know who Cleopatra was, but here’s a quick rundown anyway. Cleopatra was actually Cleopatra VII (who ruled from 51-30 BC), the Queen of Egypt and its sole ruler until the Romans conquered it in 30 BC. Cleopatra was part of the family known as the Ptolemies, Macedonian […]

Those of you familiar with international travel know that exchanging your regular currency for the currency of the country you are traveling to is almost like a ritual. You either do so in the airport before you leave or after you arrive at your destination. The reality is that you really don’t have to exchange […]

You’d have to have been living in a cave (or on another planet) over the last twenty years if you don’t know who actor Mark Wahlberg is. The forty-eight-year-old went from being a marginal musician in the early 1990s to an A-list actor by the end of the decade. Today, besides being one of Hollywood’s […]

The next time you’re peering through a telescope, look between the constellations Libra and Sagittarius and you’ll find the constellation Scorpius. It’s sort of stuck in the middle of a bunch of other stars. Once you find it though, it might be difficult to make out the actual shape of a scorpion. I never see […]

Dice are one of the world’s oldest types of games. Antecedents to dice have been discovered in ancient Egypt and India, but it was in Rome where people began to play it as we do today. It’s really quite simple; you just place bets on which numbers will appear facing up after the dice are […]

From the mid-1970s until the early ’80s, the dominant style of popular music in America was disco. The style began in New York City and spread to larger urban centers on the coasts. By the late ‘70s, even Americans in small towns knew what the “hustle and bump” was, and disco themes were routine in […]

You might think the only thing that Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America, and the ancient Egyptian King Akhenaten (who ruled from 1351-1334 BC) had in common was the fact that they were both rulers. It is true that both men led their respective countries, exercised an incredible amount of […]