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United Nations Day is a celebration held annually on October 24. In a move to signify the end of the WWI formally, the League of Nations was founded through the Treaty of Versailles. The members of the league signed the treaty on June 28, 1919,…
On October 8 of this year, several states in the U.S. celebrate Native American Day and Columbus Day. It has been a holiday in many states in the United States. Native American Day is a day to show appreciation and recognition and give honor to…
With more than 7,000 living languages spoken today, many language learners choose only among a few. But right now it could be well worth it to learn the Korean language. But why learn Korean? Romance languages, such as German, Spanish or French are the usual…
When Easter comes, it is usually a sign that spring is here. Easter is celebrated either in March or April. This year, Easter falls on the first day of April. For Christians, this is the day when Jesus’ resurrection took place. Easter is a movable…
Are you clued up on the world’s least spoken language? The latest statistical data from Ethnologue places the number of living languages in the world at 7,099. The number could be more since the remote areas in places such as Papua New Guinea and the…
If you’re in England, Canada, the United States, the Philippines, and Australia or possibly in Antarctica, Fiji, Jamaica, Cayman Islands and other English-speaking countries, the most common greeting this time of the year is “Merry Christmas!“ The language difference does not alter the fact that…
The nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. is a beautiful compact federal district that measures 68.34 sq. mi (177.0 km2). It is home to an estimated population of 681,170, which reaches about one million during the workweek and it’s home to the most embassies in the country…
America is a nation of immigrants. We owe much of our country’s development to immigrants in history, and our culture continues to deepen in complexity and richness as more people migrate to America’s shores. In 2015, The US was home to 46,630,000 immigrants. In 2015,…
The mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart has continued for decades. It’s been 80 years, in fact, since her plane vanished into thin air, somewhere over the Pacific. However, in a new documentary by the History Channel, Amelia Earhart The Lost Evidence, experts believed…
In the history of sport, player numbers have always been present and as it turned out there is a history and some secrets behind its use. The numbers on sports jerseys have become synonymous with the name once a player becomes a sporting legend. It…
Located in what is today known as the northeastern part of Afghanistan that stretches to Pakistan and northwestern part of India, the Indus Valley Civilization in its early stage existed as a Bronze Age civilization from 3300 to 1300 BCE. Its mature period covered 2600…
Why is Holland always associated with windmills? Why do windmills in the scenery background often symbolize Dutch landscape? Certainly, these questions may have crossed one’s mind. It makes one curious that images of windmills, no matter where they are located, evoke the thought of Holland,…
