There is hardly anything more horrendous than flooding on the scale of something like Hurricane Katrina or a tsunami like the one that affected Thailand and other countries.
What is left in the wake of these violent fits of Mother Nature can hardly be described adequately with words. It can be heart wrenching to look at [...]
For hundreds of years, what is now the Detroit area was so important to commerce between Native American tribes that only traders were allowed into the territory.
As a city, Detroit wouldn’t begin to shape into its current form until roughly four centuries ago. In the 1600’s, France began establishing forts at strategic locations in North [...]
Researchers believe that about 140 million people, mainly in developing countries are being poisoned by arsenic in their drinking water. This is no doubt due to a lack of water quality testing in these countries as there is not enough awareness about the effects of bad drinking water.
South and East Asia account for more [...]
The Da Vinci Code probably deserves a lukewarm three stars. As with the paper back or hard cover, a major problem is that the climax of the story, the murder of the curator, occurs in the very first scene. Then the treasure hunt by the hero and heroine, including the assistance they get from the [...]
When dealing with controversial issues, there are always two sides to the story, as with Dan Brown novel the Da Vinci Code. Through my research, the best person to contradict Dan Brown accusations is a novelist, Darrell L. Bock. In his novel, BREAKING THE DA VINCI CODE, he challenges Dan Brown claims to “historical facts”. [...]
Native American drums are probably the most recognizable Native American instruments among American Indians and non Native people alike. Drums for generations have been at the center of Native lifestyle, forming what has become the foundation of religion and spirituality as well as social gatherings where a pow wow drum is center stage.
Indian tribes [...]
How do we move beyond our prejudices to distinguish what is sensible and what is nonsensical?
When Albert Einstein created the Special and General Theory of Relativity, initially it seemed like nonsense, because nobody had ever thought of things like that before, but both the logical consistency of his arguments and the proof that was later [...]
In todays rapidly changing world, we need visionaries. Visionary mothers, visionary educators, visionary leaders, visionary children–visionaries, period!
Many think of visionaries being those who have a special “gift” for thinking big, thinking creatively, etc. But consider that a visionary is simply someone who chooses to walk his or her own heroic path in life, inspired [...]
A First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army has taken a stand. Ehren Watada, a 28-year-old Hawaii native, faces a court martial next month and up to 6 years in prison. He is the first commissioned officer in the U.S. to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq.
Overy 100,000 people have commented on one of the blogs were [...]
One of the most remarkable inventions ever in the history of the human race is the invention of the World Wide Web.
In the middle of the 15th century Johannes Gutenberg a German goldsmith, invented the movable type printing in Europe.
His technology replaced books that had to be created by hand . [...]
