When massive stars die… they seed the Universe with stardust. Full of elements like hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, silicon and iron. The raw materials to build new stars, solar systems, planets and of course …us. Everything we see around us once blasted out from the core of a star. You may stardust is. Well ..you’re stardust […] Read more

Reverse speech. In the latter days of Earth, before it exploded into the shards and stones of the new asteroid belt that surrounds the sun in place of the old orbiting planet. The science of reverse speech had been a vanguard of the increasingly peaceful society that had inhabited most countries. For those that may […] Read more

To visit California’s Imperial Valley is to enter a sleepy place world’s away from the glamorous boomtowns of California’s coast. Pickups outnumber BMWs. Vast farms irrigated by the Colorado River stretch as far as the eye can see. Few tourists walk its hot, dusty streets. Yet the valley lies just two hours from the beaches […] Read more

It was the worst epidemic this country has ever known. It killed more Americans than all the wars this century — combined. Before it was over, it almost broke America apart. In 1918, the United States was a vigorous young nation, leading the world into the modern age. All our fears and anxieties were directed […] Read more

Ireland is a land of wild seacoasts and misty rolling hills — so green that it is sometimes called “The Emerald Isle.” Whitewashed cottages with thatched roofs dot the countryside. The Irish people are known for their wit, imagination, spirit, and hospitality. Ireland lies west of Great Britain, between the Irish Sea and the Atlantic […] Read more

Since the 1960s, the world’s headlines have repeatedly focused on the problems of Northern Ireland. But these latest confrontations are only the most recent response to Britain’s 800-year presence in Ireland. In this unusually graphic and detailed short history of Ireland, we set out to disentangle fact from myth, events from emotions. Combining documentary evidence […] Read more

As unlikely as it seems, many people will enter and win money in the Irish Sweepstakes. This lottery is illegal in the United States, yet as much as 30 million dollars are spent on it annually by citizens of the United States. While postal inspectors, the U.S. Treasury, the FBI, as well as state and […] Read more

They were the first large wave of immigrants to land in nineteenth-century America, arriving poor and desperate, uprooted strangers in a strange world. They fought to belong, to survive, and to get ahead, as would all newcomers to America. They endured the hardships and insults that beset all immigrants. They were mostly country folk and […] Read more

Religion, politics, passion, history, social injustice, and a standing army are not the ideal ingredients for a ‘get away from it all’ holiday. But these are the things that draw thousands of visitors to Israel every year. This is ‘where it happened’, a land that grips at the imagination of every Christian, Jew and Muslim […] Read more