As the last Moorish King of Granada, Sultan Mohammed and his family went into exile, forced into this situation by the advancing army of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel of Castile who were on a quest to reclaim Spanish land from the Moors - North African Muslims of Berber and Arabian descent. Legend has it [...]
If you want to win a quiz, one of the best things you can do to prepare is to read newspapers everyday. A good quizmaster will use the media as a benchmark for what contestants are likely to know and what he's likely to throw them. Getting into the habit of reading widely will help [...]
Do a little test. Type your name into the Google Search bar and see what it brings back. Chances are if you have done the good, bad, and ugly and left those memories on the internet, that you will find them. Just ask Ray Jay and Kim Kardashian, the internet never forgets! Google, for example, [...]
The Gregorian calendar is today's internationally accepted civil calendar and it's also known as the "Western calendar" or "Christian calendar". It was named after the man who first introduced it in February 1582: Pope Gregory XIII. The calendar is strictly a solar calendar based on a 365-day common year divided into 12 months of irregular [...]