Earth can be seen as a living, breathing organism: it regulates temperature, burns energy, continually renews its...
Month: July 2013
The word “tax” is from the Latin taxo, meaning “I estimate.” Approximately 90% of people who employ...
The name Italy comes from the word italia, meaning “calf land,” perhaps because the bull was a...
Facebook has over 350 million active users. More than 35 million users update their status each day,...
The first Independence Day celebration took place in Philadelphia on July 8, 1776. This was also the...
The average millionaire goes bankrupt at least 3.5 times. In the United States, approximately 7% of households...
Whales belong to the order cetacean, meaning they are mammals that are fully adapted to aquatic life....
More than 80 spelling variations are recorded for Shakespeare’s name, from “Shappere” to “Shaxberd. In the few...
The planet Mercury is a symbol used by the transgendered community. The sign for Mercury is a...
The “Google Guys,” Larry Page and Sergey Brin, first met at Stanford University in 1995 when Sergey...
Approximately 1-2% of humans, or about two in 100 people in the world, have red hair. The...
In 2009, Romney’s 70-year-old cousin, Meredith Romney, was kidnapped in Mexico and held for ransom in a...
