The life of the world’s favorite mouse 1928 – Walt Disney dreams up Mickey on a cross-country train trip. The little mouse makes his film debut in Steamboat Willie on November 18, the date later recognized as his birthday. 1929 – Mickey speaks his first words in The Karnival Kid. Walt Disney provides the voice. …
How did the Asian food utensils originate? In much of Asia, especially the so-called “rice bowl” cultures of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks. Chopsticks are two long, thin, usually tapered, pieces of wood. Bamboo is the most common material, but they are also be made of various types of …
More tea is consumed around the world than any beverage except water. The history of tea dates back to around 3000 BC. In prehistoric China tea was probably used as a relish and as a medicine. Tea was also popular for stimulation. A Necessity Tea drinking, and commercial cultivation, spread during the T’ang Dynasty, 618–907, …
Greenland is a self-governed Danish territory lying between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. It is the sixth largest landmass on Earth, and by the most common convention it is the largest one to be counted as an island rather than a continent. History Greenland was home to a number of Paleo-Eskimo cultures in prehistory, the …
If you were living near Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot, your weather forecast would be something like this: Expect lightning storms and winds gusting to 340 miles per hour for the next few hundred years. On Earth, hurricane-force winds blow as “slowly” as 74 miles per hour. By comparison, winds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot …
There are several myths about Explorers. Some of the most popular ones that still abide in popular memory are: Christopher Columbus discovered America Most people think so. But the truth is that the Vikings, led by Leif Ericson, were the first Europeans to land on the coast of North America in the year 1000. Christopher …
Called Chomolungma (“goddess mother of the world”) in Tibet and Sagarmatha (“goddess of the sky”) in Nepal, Mount Everest was once known by the pedestrian name of Peak XV among Westerners. That was before surveyors established that it was the highest peak on Earth. In 1852 the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India measured Everest’s elevation …
The Paris Louvre museum held on to its title as the world’s most popular museum in 2017, welcoming a record 8.1 million people. Overview The Louvre Museum in Paris , France , is the oldest and one of the most famous art gallery and museum in the world. The Louvre has a long history of …
The Qinghai-Tibet railway is the world’s highest railway. The line boasts high-tech engineering to stabilise tracks over permafrost and oxygen pumped into cabins to help passengers cope with the high altitude. China says the 1,140km (710-mile) line is an engineering marvel and will bring major opportunities to a poor region. Critics say it will speed …
Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas , Asia and the Pacific. To maintain its independence, Greenpeace does not accept donations from governments or corporations but relies on contributions from individual supporters and foundation grants. As a global organisation, Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats …
