There was perhaps a time in your childhood that you enjoyed playing house roles, setting up camping tents, or playhouse. Or maybe you like beach time, playing with sands forming mini-castles, and acting like kings and queens. It was fun old days playing with clay and sands to form a massive thing … Read more
When Finland’s Nokia Company, which occupies a leading position in the field of the cell phone, started its business operations in 1865, leave alone mobile phones, even the ordinary phone was not invented. World’s first telephone was made by Alexander Bell in 1876. Nokia Company entered the telephone business at the beginning … Read more
It is hard to have everyone agree on something. But when we talk about the Olympics’ race events, everyone can agree that it should be run in an anti-clockwise direction. Don’t you wonder why all races are run in that direction? Certainly, answering “because the rules say so” is not enough. Every … Read more
The tennis ball is made from synthetic materials and about ten different chemicals. The sheets covering the ball are made from these materials, and they are cut into strips shaped like the number 8. Two strips are then heated up to a certain temperature inside a pressure chamber, and the edges of … Read more
When you’ve been advised by your doctor to take a specific medication, it’s hard not to notice the Rx symbol on their prescription pads. Moreover, once you go to the pharmacy, you can also see the sign anywhere. Everyone links the symbol to prescriptions, but what does Rx actually mean and was … Read more
Nobody knows for sure, but it is a general consensus that the word is derived from “lamp-post.” For over a thousand years, the working system of messengers running here, there, and everywhere with written messages on their bags eventually developed into the post service. The business really took off in England when … Read more
The Doomsday Clock indicates how close we are to the threat of nuclear annihilation. The idea for the clock was conceived by researchers that are members of an international group called the Chicago Atomic Scientists, which is founded by individuals who were involved in the Manhattan Project that is created to build … Read more
The Answer: Coins have been a favored form of currency for millennia. The inherent value of metal was noted and taken advantage of almost from the beginning of civilization itself. The first coins appeared around 600 B.C. in the Lydian kingdom. Today, this would be around the country of Turkey. These coins … Read more