Nazca Lines are drawings on the ground often referred to as ‘geoglyphs’ which are positioned in the Nazca Desert, a high waterless plateau that spreads across hundreds of miles amidst the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the pampa, a huge flat region of southern Peru. They were originally detected by chance during an airplane [...]

The aesthetic of film noir was hugely influenced by German Expressionism of the 1910s and 1920s. Many of the major contributors to film noir were immigrants from Europe, who had been directly involved in the Expressionism movement who were fleeing Nazi Germany. Another underlying influence and definitive antecedent was 1930s French poetic realism and it’s [...]

World War I devastated everything – nothing could ever be the same again, there was no way back to what it was like before. Everybody had bought into the values of class-consciousness, the formalism of societal norms and the constraints of culture but in the end these axioms had failed humanity. Everybody had played ball and [...]

The Beat Movement, The Beats, The Beat Generation – what exactly was it? Truth is I don’t know and I don’t think anybody else does. I mean beat generation was a moniker that Kerouac applied to his close circle of friends – it hardly defines a generation – indeed Corso saw that only three were [...]

Scientology is a body of beliefs created by American science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, the first Scientology church was established in New Jersey in 1953. Scientology believes that people are immortal spiritual beings (thetans) which have lived many lifetimes, thetans lived among extraterrestrial cultures before being trapped in human forms on earth. It is [...]

They said she was unsinkable, they said that she was the greatest ship to have ever sailed. Yet, she never even completed her maiden voyage, floundering in the icy waters of the Atlantic, four hundred miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland [...]

“The Persistence of Memory” is one of Salvador Dalí’s most famous paintings.
Created in 1931, the well-known surrealistic painting introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. This image epitomizes Dalí’s theory of ’softness’ and ‘hardness’, which was central to his thinking at the time.
The painting has been owned by the Museum of Modern Art [...]

Phloem (pronounced “flom”) bundles have become a hot topic on Google trends recently due to their mention on the quiz show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”
So what are phloem bundles?  They are the strings on a banana and are part of the system that carries nutrition to all parts of the banana.
For those who want more [...]

If you remember a few months ago, we answered a question on “where do wolves live.” That answer led to more questions about the life of wolves and we thought we would answer one of those questions today. If you do have more questions about wolves, feel free to email us your question or to [...]

A.E. Housman was born in Fockbury, which is a hamlet in Worcestershire, England. His full name was Alfred Edward Housman and he lived from March 26, 1859 to April 30, 1936. He was a well-known poet and his poems were more lyrical than anything else.
He was also a private scholar and is believed to be [...]