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Sunday, 31 Jan, 2010
The ice cream is rooted in ancient Asia, namely, China and Arabia. The researchers found that ice cream can be traced back to the 3rd century B.C. Chinese Emperor and his nobility were served concoctions of fruit juices with snow and ice. The recipes of the unusual dessert were kept secret, and were revealed only in the 9th century B.C.
There are references stating that cooled juices were very popular in the palace of the legendary King Solomon, and that the famous ancient Greek physician Hippocrates recommended ice cream for a better tonus and health improvement. Alexander Makedonsky was
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Friday, 29 Jan, 2010
Earthquakes triggered the deadliest disasters of the past decade and remain a major threat for millions of people worldwide who live in some of the world's megacities, the United Nations said Thursday.
A UN-backed study said nearly 60 percent of about 780,000 people killed by disasters in 2000 to 2009 died during earthquakes.
But climate events affected far more people -- nearly three quarters of the two billion hit by catastrophes.
Storms accounted for 22 percent of the overall death toll while extreme temperatures claimed 11 percent of lives lost in 3,852 disasters over the period.
Officials and researchers also maintained their alarm
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Friday, 29 Jan, 2010
Let us spell a message - Jobs are families. As unemployment rates reach record levels there can be no doubt that the current monetarist-market-oriented economic model contains
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Friday, 29 Jan, 2010
The Russian vodka will celebrate its birthday on January 31. Here are some interesting and funny facts about probably the most popular strong beverage in the world.
Thirty-five
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Monday, 25 Jan, 2010
A passion for 3D films can be very bad for your eyes. Movie–goers should not watch 3D films more than three or four times a week, whereas
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Monday, 25 Jan, 2010
Nostradamus the famous prophet spoke of “fire that will fall from the sky.” Saint Matrona Moskovskaya of Russia predicted a cataclysm when “everything will fall through
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Friday, 22 Jan, 2010
Nokia offers a new version of its mapping service Ovi Maps for free. The service will include turn-by-turn voice guidance for walking and driving navigation.
The launch is
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Friday, 22 Jan, 2010
Why should the international community be spending two hundred and fifty billion dollars of its taxpayers’ hard-earned money to perform state-building in Afghanistan when this country now
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Friday, 22 Jan, 2010
The Russian space solar observatory known as TESIS photographed a series of powerful flares on the Sun. Each of the subsequent flares was more powerful than the
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Friday, 22 Jan, 2010
American researches were curious whether hair color affected women’s nature. There were mostly interested in blondes, who received most of attention. The researchers were surprised to find
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Tuesday, 19 Jan, 2010
Pavel Globa astrologist are skeptical about predictions of an apocalypse that is to happen in 2012 according to the Maya calendar. Yet, he do think that new
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Tuesday, 19 Jan, 2010
The onset of middle age can begin as early as 35, according to recent studies made in the United States of America. Research has shown that extreme
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Tuesday, 19 Jan, 2010
Scotland may raise the issue of its independence(In 2010) . The date of a referendum has not been announced yet, but there is a significant possibility it
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Friday, 15 Jan, 2010
Male prostitution in Russia is flourishing, and the prices for the services in this sector continue to rise due to high demand and lack of resources. It
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Thursday, 14 Jan, 2010
The FBI issued on Thursday a warning about e-mails offering bogus online fundraising to help victims of the devastating quake in Haiti, which left thousands of people
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Thursday, 14 Jan, 2010
Beijing called Thursday on the international community to cooperate in greater control of the internet, even as Google threatened to leave China after its computers were hacked
