The Lego Brick is an old invention by today’s standards. The first plastic brick was molded in 1949. Since then, thousands of new and unique Lego elements have been developed. Pick a Lego brick from a box today and it will fit with any brick molded decades ago […] Read more

India – a land filled with mystery, danger and legend. And for more than 5,000 years the sole source of the world’s biggest diamonds, most from the ancient Golconda Region. But it has been more than 250 years since diamonds have been mined here. Locals believe in an ancient curse that brings misfortune and even […] Read more

India – a land filled with mystery, danger and legend. And for more than 5,000 years the sole source of the world’s biggest diamonds, most from the ancient Golconda Region. But it has been more than 250 years since diamonds have been mined here. Locals believe in an ancient curse that brings misfortune and even […] Read more

The Maya were great observers and interpreters of the planets. Their pantheon included figures like the Nine Lords of the Night. Their gods might be human or animal or a combination of the two. The Maya believed the world would end every 52 years, and their lives and ideas were shaped by this central perception […] Read more

The Maya, an ancient South American culture, predicted that time would end in a violent apocalypse on December 21, 2012. They created an elaborate astronomical calendar called “The Long Count,” which stops abruptly in 2012. This date, which is also the winter equinox, coincides with an incredibly rare galactic alignment that happens once every 26,000 […] Read more

The land of the Maya spread from parts of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala in the south, to Belize and Mexico in the north. It was covered with hundreds of small kingdoms, each with its own unique history. The heartland of what scholars call the classic Mayan civilization lay in the southern lowlands. It is […] Read more

The meadow is full of life. Tall, yellow wildflowers called Goldenrod grow in the meadow. In the morning, a hungry, green grasshopper nibbles on a wildflower. Nearby, a big, brown toad is watching. Soon, the hungry toad catches the grasshopper with his long, sticky tongue and eats him right up. Toads can do that. At […] Read more

Like most other Mediterranean cities, Athens must be seen by day, but experienced by night. This is the time to enjoy ones self and meet people. Parties go on ’til dawn. The Greek government is trying to impose early closing hours in the interest of daylight productivity, but this initiative has been very unpopular […] Read more

At a certain point, every religion must explore its sacred past. What shards of history have survived? What is myth? What is symbol? Where does man end and God begin? And what is the shadow side? It took Christianity almost 2,000 years to look at its founding stories with modern eyes. The Mormon sacred stories […] Read more