A cigarette is made up of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper and used for smoking. The cigarettes that are widely available in the market today are milder compared to cigar tobacco. Most commercially produced cigarettes are made the same way; they are treated with sugar and butterfat to cover the bitter … Read more
We can find quite a few reasons for the roundness of coins–these relate to different time periods, but interestingly there are actually several examples of square-shaped coins. However, the round coin is definitely more common no matter what country and history we’re talking about. The most obvious reason for coins being round … Read more
It’s some relief to other people who, until today, enjoy daily journaling and using their favorite pens and notebooks in writing down their thoughts and daily happenings in their lives. Back then, mailboxes were stuffed with actual letters, not e-mails. Your teacher will praise you for having good penmanship, but your … Read more
In the present, our society is getting freedom from every social stigma, one after another. But in the pre feminism era, things were a lot different. The fashion styles we see and adore now used to be considered as low and shallow at that time. Before the fashion industry, the clothing was … Read more
Despite the phrase suggesting that a battle occurred in a cold location, the Cold War was not actually a continuous armed conflict. Rather, it was an intense political situation created by the aggressive policies created by both the United States of America and the Soviet Union (USSR). The Cold War virtually ended … Read more
Even though it was Christopher Columbus who discovered the American continent, he had no role in naming the land. He thought the place he had discovered was India, as that was his goal. In a bizarre turn of events, America was named after the Italian traveler Amerigo Vespucci by two cartographers, possibly … Read more
While the modern history of slavery is built on racial discrimination and superiority complex, there are some unpopular truths that many have been forgotten to acknowledge. While the slave tradition was certainly fertilized by the white people, many free blacks involved themselves in buying and selling slaves in America. The pieces of … Read more
What’s in the name? Aristotle tagged them as “human instruments,” marking their use as tools while the fifth century Anglo-Saxons called the people they captured “Welshman.” They are later dubbed as “slaves,” originating from the time the Germans supplied the slaves they seized to Europe’s markets. Britney Spears probably could have been … Read more