Encyclopedia of Trivia

In 1935 Rowntree's launched their new two-bar wafer as Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp in the British Isles . Two years later it was re-...

The word 'kiss' is from the old English 'cyssan' which probably comes from proto-Germanic expression 'kussijanan or kus...

A kipper is a strong smelling preserved whole herring that has been split in butterfly fashion from tail to head, gutted, salted or pickle...

EARLY LIFE Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865 in Bombay (now Mumbai), in the Bombay Presidency of British India , to Alice Ki...

The English Church of England clergyman and social reformer Charles Kingston (1819-1875) was one of the group who launched in 1848 The Chr...

EARLY LIFE Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta , Georgia . His legal name at birth was Michael King and his fat...

The King's Touch was a form of laying on of hands , whereby English and French monarchs would touch their subjects with the intent to c...