Oases are isolated stretches of vegetation found in the desert generally surrounding a water body. They are blessings in disguise which provide habitat to all life forms. Oases can be termed as the ...

Donald Duck is one of the most beloved characters created by Walt Disney. His ever-changing temperament, the distinctive waddle and the semi-intelligible words in his quacking voice are what make him ...

Alexander the Great is well known as one of the most successful warriors of all time. The question that remains is not if he was successful, but how. Born in 356 BC, in Mesopotamia (modern day Greece) ...

Phantom islands are islands that have appeared on the map for a certain amount of time, sometimes centuries, before getting removed from the maps after it’s proven that they never existed. They vanish ...

Batman is one of the most popular superheroes of all time. He appears as the lead protagonist of the comic book series published by DC Comics. Created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, he first appeared in ...

Contrary to popular belief not all wars took years to come to a conclusion. In fact some took minutes, days and even a month to come to an end. These were the shortest wars in history. Yes you might ...

Many believe in a history of the United States of America, as a country founded upon Christian ideas. This is an opinion which is traditional, but not altogether accurate. Many patriotic pagans are ...

Who does not like laying lazily on a reclining chair in a breezy warm summer night and gazing at the dark night sky? After all staring at the sky is the closest we can get to nature from our ...

When monarchies ruled civilization, there was no greater offense than defying the king. This goes for all social classes: commoners, aristocrats, and even the most powerful women in society— the ...

Poison is not just the weapon of snakes and reptiles. Most of the plants around the world contain some kind of poisons in their bodies as defensive mechanisms. And a number of them are very deadly. A ...

In 1898 author Morgan Robertson published a novella titled ‘Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan’. It told the story of a fictional ocean liner, ‘Titan’, which sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after ...

In the history of literature, there have been a large number of child heroes. Some of them endeared themselves to the readers for their naughtiness while others had tragic stories to tell. Whatever ...