Originally known as Secretaries’ Day, this April holiday was begun in the 1950s as an attempt to spur interest in becoming a secretary. There are many strange and unknown April holidays. Like many Christian holidays, Easter incorporates a great deal of pagan symbols, including the Easter Bunny and the practice of hiding and finding Easter [...]
There’s been a tendency in recent years to give dogs human names.There are many benefits to choosing cute dog names. I thought we could name our dog after some piece of food. There are so many dog names for female puppies. Some people might confuse Mike with one of our children. Or the neighbor’s kid–also [...]
Species such as the jackknife fish high-hat and some angelfishes have dark lines that run through the eyes. Some deep sea fish like the primitive jawless fish known as hagfish and lampreys gather round a corpse with surprising speed and eat it by burrowing into the animal and eating it from the inside out. But [...]
The horror genre is not one easy to fall in love with. Scary movies developed out of a number of sources: folktales with devil characters, witchcraft, fables, myths, ghost stories, Grand Guignol melodramas, and Gothic or Victorian novels from Europe by way of Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo or Irish writer Bram Stoker, and American writers [...]