Category: World Short Story

In 1821, the US began to colonize Texas. The newly independent Mexican government, pleased with the prospering US colony, offered grants to other American promoters....

Located in the county of Berkshire, west of London, Windsor Castle has been a principal official residence of British monarchs since the 11th century. The...

What hath night to do with sleep? Discuss Read More Tags : World Sort Story, Quote of the Day ,Daily Article

The Honeymooners was a short-lived American sitcom based on sketches by comedian Jackie Gleason. It starred Gleason and Audrey Meadows as a struggling working class...

Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic lay order founded in 1928 in Spain, where it gained support from the government of Francisco Franco after the...

Self-help is the best help. Read More Tags : World Sort Story, Quote of the Day ,Daily Article

In 2004, two teams of Japanese researchers traveled to a sperm whale hunting ground south of Tokyo, where they attached bait, a camera, and a...

"Code talkers" were Native American soldiers in the US military who transmitted secret messages using codes based on their native languages. Though code talking was...

The first Sino-Japanese War in the late 19th century damaged relations between the two countries for decades, as it marked the emergence of imperial Japan...

Murphy's Law is the humorous axiom stating that anything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong. Its namesake is likely Edward A. Murphy, an...

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Read More Tags : World Sort Story, Quote of...

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Read More...

In 2000, Israeli politician Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque—a site holy to Muslims and Jews—in Jerusalem. Accompanied by soldiers, he claimed that Israel had...

Hoops, originally made from stiff grasses and other natural materials, have been popular toys for centuries—long before "hula" was added to their name in the...

There is no remedy for love but to love more. Read More Tags : World Sort Story, Quote of the Day ,Daily Article

During the chaotic period that followed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, a militia of Islamic fundamentalist students known as the Taliban became increasingly powerful. In...

Green Lakes State Park near Syracuse, New York, is home to two unusual lakes. Green Lake and Round Lake are meromictic, meaning that unlike most...

The present Swedish royal dynasty was established by French-born Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte. Bernadotte initially supported Napoleon but then shifted his allegiance to Sweden. In 1810, he...

The second law of thermodynamics—stating that any isolated microcosm moves only toward an increase in entropy—was accepted uneasily by the scientific community, and in 1867,...

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom...