Underground Cities Is There An Underground City Under Your Feet? Belief in a subterranean world has been handed over down the generations through tale, myth and rumor. Socrates talked of vast caverns beneath the earth where rivers flowed and man lived in huge hollows. Earl Dorr, a miner, started a …
Oscar Winning Movies Literary Adaptations and Academy Awards The 81st Oscars and “Slumdog Millionaire,” a film based on the book of the same name reiterated the love Oscars had for movies based on novels. A glance at the coveted trophies reveals that, most literary adaptations have been hugely successful. Of …
It’s that time of the year again! With Halloween behind us, the countdown for Christmas has begun. Christmas brings with it many familiar traditions of the season and we cannot comprehend Christmas without some of them, such as the quintessential Christmas Trees. Revered as God’s tree, the Christmas Tree is …
To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language. ~ Arlene Benedict ~ The Madonna of the Pinks 1506 by Raphael Coming up to Mother’s Day, My Mother …My Forever Friend, a tiny book gifted by my son last Mother’s Day, made me think just how important my own …
The political map grows while the World breaks! The lines on the map get rearranged with every new division, and looks like an old Roman fresco. The last 50 years saw the formation of 100 “new countries.” This is nothing new and has been happening since 400 AD, when empires …
It’s like you’re in some wonderful dream you don’t ever want to wake up from. That’s the magic these luxurious and most expensive hotels spin on you. And all this from just reading about them! Most people never get to see the inside of these hotels, but for the privileged …
With 400 breeds of dogs to take into consideration, coming to a conclusion on the most expensive dog breed in the world is certainly a Herculean task. As a dog lover myself, I know that the world’s most expensive dog breed is not necessarily the most popular. The parameters that …