Category: When, Why and What

The Grand Canyon is one of the greatest spectacles on the face of the earth.  Grand Canyon was made by a river! The waters of the Colorado River cut out this great gorge in thousands of years. When you consider that it was cut out of solid rock in many places, you begin to appreciate […]

The ancient Egyptians were the first to use a kind of keys to open a door. They had a lock that was made up of a wooden bolt that fitted into a slot. Movable wooden pins known as tumblers were fastened in the top of the slot. When the bolt slid into place, the wooden […]

Using horses for racing seems to be one of the oldest sports enjoyed by man. Horse racing were held in Egypt, Babylonia, and Syria in ancient times. The first recorded instances of people betting on horse racing  comes from the ancient civilizations of Rome and Greece. Homer described a Greek chariot race that took place […]