Encyclopedia of Trivia

A president is the leader of a country . The president of a country is not the same thing as a prime minister. A prime minister is part of ...

The first humans discovered how to make fire by rubbing two sticks together. The control of fire meant that food , in particular meat , c...

In Scotland the Archbishop of St Andrews, Cardinal David Beaton was the main obstacle to the Reformation. On May 29, 1546 some frustrated P...

HISTORY Ancient Egyptians had a 70% accurate method for detecting pregnancy: a woman would wee on two bags; one filled with wheat seed ...

The Mantis is a type of insect . They are usually known as praying mantids because of their prayer -like stance. Over 2,400 species of ma...

Prayer is a personal communion with God . In early 1952, during the Korean War , evangelist Billy Graham led a movement for a US Nationa...

HISTORY The earliest inhabitants of the area that is now Prague lived in the valley of the Vltava river around 500 BC. The legendary o...