Encyclopedia of Trivia

EARLY LIFE King John of England was born on December 24, 1167 at Beaumont Palace, which had been built outside the north gate of Oxford ...

Johannesburg was named and established in 1886 following the discovery of gold on what had been a farm . Within ten years, Johannesburg...

The jockey's cap dates back to the head covering of Roman charioteers. Their fast motion along the racing track, with its repeated tu...

EARLY LIFE Steve Jobs was born on February 24 1955, in San Francisco, California . Jobs was half Arab by his biological father, Abdulf...

EARLY LIFE Joan of Arc was born on January 6, 1412 in the village of Domrémy, located in the valley of the Meuse, East France . Only t...

Jigsaw puzzles were invented by the English mapmaker and geographer John Spilsbury in 1760. He used a marquetry saw to produce maps of the ...

The words and music for this Christmas classic were written by James Pierpont, a popular American composer with the title of "One Hor...