Reading time: 3 minutes and 48 seconds On April 1, 1957, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) ran a 3-minute news report broadcast on “spaghetti harvesting.” The broadcast focused on a family based in southern Switzerland who was harvesting spaghetti from the family “spaghetti tree.” The family gathered a bumper “spaghetti harvest” due to a mild […]
Month: March 2019
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s marriage
Reading Time: 3 minutes Frida Kahlo is a world renewed artist, you might better know her as the Mexican artist with the unibrow. She married another famous artist in Diego Rivera. Their marriage is the topic of discussion today. Frida first met Diego when she was an art student. She was hoping to get advice […]
Beware the Ides of March
Reading time: 3 minutes and 40 seconds Beware the Ides of March, is a famous line from the Shakespeare play, Julius Ceasar. The Ides of March was, officially March 15th on the Roman calendar. It was a day used by the Romans to settle debts. It is better known in Roman History as the day […]
Forgotten: Blockbuster Video
Reading time: 4 minutes and 46 seconds Remember Friday nights heading to the video rental store? It was a joy to walk into your local video rental store and find new movies to watch over the weekend. Or find video games to play over the weekend. The newest releases would be hard to obtain unless […]
Tulip Mania
Reading time: 4 minutes, 15 seconds Can you imagine living in an era where a single bulb of a tulip is worth more than acres of land? Or where a single bulb of a tulip is worth 10 times more than the average worker’s salary? Well, this real-life scenario really occurred during the Dutch Golden […]
