United States of America celebrates Veterans Day which was known before as Armistice Day. In 1919 Armistice Day incorporated by President Wilson marked the day of the end of the World War I. Today, if November 11 falls on a weekday, Veterans Day will...

Diaspora is the name given to Jewish communities who over thousand of years established themselves in different parts of the world. It is a Greek word meaning scattering. The history of Diaspora goes back to the 8th Century B.C. when the people of...

The Gulf Stream is in the Atlantic. It is warm ocean current which flows steadily from the Gulf of Mexico north-eastwards. One branch reaches the Canary Islands, turn

The Sahara, the world's greatest dry hot desert, stretches right across the north of Africa where there is almost no rainfall and consequently, little o

The original inhabitants of Australia, the Aborigines, met the usual fate of widely-scattered native peoples when the white settlers began to arrive and multiply. Their numbers fell drastically. This was not due to any policy of cruelty or...