Encyclopedia of Trivia

Margarine was created on July 15, 1869 by the French Province chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès. He invented it in response to a commission b...

Mardi Gras refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three King's Day...

EARLY YEARS He was born into the Italian nobility as Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi in Bologna on April 25, 1874. Guglielmo was the ...

The Battle of Marathon took place on the plain of Marathon twenty-six miles north of Athens .  The Persian forces under King Darius I were ...

Pheidippides became the original marathon runner in 490 BC when he run 26 miles to break the news to the Athenians of their victory against...

Maple syrup is a thick kind of syrup made from the sap of maple trees. The Sugar maple tree is its primary source. Vermont has the most m...

The oldest known map is carved on a clay tablet that dates to about 2300 BC and now resides in the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge , Massachus...