The Ultimate Guide to CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, the great navigator, is supposed to have been born at or near Genoa, in the year 1436, or as others say 1446. Though virtually the greatest man of his era, there is little definite information about his family and his early life. It would appear, however, that he was […]
TOM Hooper is well aware of the irony: not only is he, an Englishman, telling Americans about the birth of their nation but John Adams is the most awarded miniseries in the history of the Emmy Awards.John Adams, who became the second president of the US, feared that future generations would forget him. But with […]
A visiting ‘guru’ thinks Ben Stiller has it all wrong, writes Steve Meacham. While she is a well travelled “museum guru”, Elaine Heumann Gurian is no fan of Hollywood’s Night At The Museum movies.The Ben Stiller comedies reinforce outdated stereotypes, she says. They confirm that museums are “big, monolithic, fusty, dusty, with lots of stuff” […]
Art The Eye As A Human Slide Projector – The human eye is like a slide projector with an immeasurable number of images reserved in a cryptic library. Our inner slide projector is our inner memory and our outer visions are what will come to be. What makes this fascinating is how we store images […]
A History Of Yugoslavia – Yugoslavia is a difficult country to pin down follow successive maps across the twentieth century and you see it move around becoming smaller and smaller as the decades roll by. The country was a confusing melting pot consisting of many different peoples languages religions and cultures. Ancient peoples had inhabited […]
A Brief History Of U.s. Presidents – There have been many Presidents of the United States since the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776 but few people realize that the Presidential history also includes a series of Presidents who lead the Colonies long before the United States was founded as a free nation. Even […]
A Brief History Of Fireplaces Down Through The Ages – Fireplaces are everywhere in todays world and we take them for granted. But when did they begin? How have they changed over the years?;And what is their status today? These are some of the questions we will set out to answer in this Brief History […]
Country List in the world AD Andorra AF Afghanistan AG Antigua and Barbuda AI Anguilla AL Albania AM Armenia AN Netherlands Antilles AO Angola AQ Antarctica AR Argentina AS American Samoa AT Austria AU Australia AW Aruba AZ Azerbaijan BA Bosnia and Herzegovina BB Barbados BD Bangladesh BE Belgium BF Burkina Faso BG Bulgaria BH […]
Regions, countries and other entities with their official codes Entity ISO numerical ISO 3166-1 ISO 3 letter FIPS World 001 africa 002 Eastern africa 014 Burundi 108 BI BDI BY Comoros 174 KM COM CN Djibouti 262 DJ DJI DJ Eritrea 232 ER ERI ER Ethiopia 231 ET ETH ET Kenya 404 KE KEN KE […]
Gus Dur, Our Champion Of Religious Tolerance – The news that Abdurrahman Wahid, leader of the 40 million-strong Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama and a former president, passed away late December might not come as a shock to many. Gus Dur, as he is known colloquially, had suffered complications from kidney and heart disease, as well […]
