July 2011

We all know that the typical human pregnancy lasts just over nine months, or roughly 40 weeks, give or take. [...]

The flower pictured above is called the European Dutchman’s Pipe.  It looks like your typical flower, [...]

Every once in a while, you may look up into the sky and notice that the moon is, relative to its normal size, [...]

    In 1973, a Libyan truck driver, allegedly drunk, got into an accident.  He was driving [...]

In the early 1900s, an epidemic hit the American South. Called pellagra — Italian for “sour [...]

In 1961, the United States undertook a series of unsuccessful campaigns in Cuba, attempting to overthrow [...]

Benjaman Kyle, pictured above, is missing. Benjaman Kyle also lives in Savannah, Georgia.  If you had his [...]

Off the coast of mainland Tanzania is Zanzibar, now a semi-autonomous archipelago but part of Tanzania [...]

The part of the Indian Ocean encapsulated by the eastern shore of India and the shores of Bangladesh and [...]

The picture above (larger version here) was taken early one weekday morning.  The tiles shown sit squarely [...]