carrier pigeon There are a few theories about homing pigeons’ homing ability, but none of them are 100% proven. What is known is that they always go back to where they were born. And it is only there – and…
(Wikimedia Commons/) Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the year 380 by order of Emperor Theodosius I, who took action in a law known as the Edict of Thessalonica. Before that, Christians were, for a long…
– (Gustavo Rodrigues/) 1. The assumption that the Earth is hollow is not new. The belief has already passed through several civilizations – from the Greeks to the Mayans, always with a religious background. They all believed in one thing…
– () 1) Monad Created by John Dee, occultist and astrologer famous for advising Queen Elizabeth I in 1583, the Monad is a combination of four symbols representing the Sun, Moon and elements of nature. In essence, verticality refers to…
Granola is a compound of five toasted cereals – oats, rice, wheat, corn and rye –, mixed with honey or brown sugar and fruits, such as raisins, apple flakes and chestnuts. Well, that’s the current recipe, but granola wasn’t always…
»> Yes there is. To fill a 1 liter bottle with hot water, you will use a smaller amount of liquid than if you did the same thing with cold water. It’s just that the heated liquid is less dense.…
Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of the cartoon SpongeBob, died in the early hours of last Monday (27). He had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the same disease as astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. Hillenburg was a marine biologist by training, which explains why…
Billiards is the generic name we give to several table games that use cues and balls. Snooker is just one of those table games. To simplify, you can say that snooker is to billiards as beach volleyball is to volleyball.…
The risk lives in the parts of the body most attacked by bacteria. They love dark, warm and humid places. Areas such as the nose, tongue and, even more so, the vagina are a presidential suite for them, as they…
Every crab is actually a crab too. The explanation is simple: siri is just a popular name given to members of the Portunidae, one of several families of crabs. Both belong to a larger group of crustaceans, the decapods, which,…