Encyclopedia of Trivia

Dishes of highly spiced meat are thought to have originated in pre-historic times among the inhabitants of the Indus Valley Civilization. A...

The first currency dates from 600 BC, when  coins  bearing the head of a lion were used in Lydia, now part of Turkey. The early Romans pr...

James IV (1473-1513) was the first Scottish king linked with curling. Tradition relates that he ordered a silver curling stone for which me...

Marie Curie was born Marya Sklodowska on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, in the Russian partition of Poland. Her birthplace is now home to the ...

The term ‘cupcake’ was originally used in the late 19th century for cakes made from ingredients measured by the cupful. The earliest men...

CUCUMBERS IN HISTORY Cucumbers were known to ancient Egyptians, who had a drink made from fermented cucumber. Cucumbers are mentioned ...

HISTORY The island of Cuba was inhabited by numerous Mesoamerican tribes prior to the landing of explorer  Christopher Columbus  in 1492...