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 United Kingdom issued the world’s first adhesive stamp, the Penny Black, on May 1, 1840. It featured the profile of Queen Victoria but was not valid for public postal use until May 6 of the same year. Starting in the 1840s, postage stamps have been utilized in letter and mail delivery. … Read more
It might just be a piece of cloth, with colors and emblems, but it represents each nation and its story. Whether it represents an organization, an armed force, an office, or an individual, it is a way of telling the world of one’s sovereignty. A flag is usually, but not always, oblong … 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
Human history has been fraught with wars and conflict. And to serve this conflict, amies have marched across the Earth since the day mankind grew enough to form nations. Though nations have risen and fallen since the dawn of man, many persist even to this day. If we were to ask ourselves … Read more