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July 30, 2010

All About Pizza

Arts & Culture

Pizza with Cheese

Was pizza invented in the United States? Many people seem to think so, given its popularity across the fifty states. America has its own forms of pizza, but pizza’s clearest origins are in Italy, in one city in particular. Like many foods however, its deepest origins lie across many cultures. After all, the idea of baking flour and adding toppings to it is pretty straightforward. Some of the early recorded evidence for this comes from 6th century BCE Persian soldiers in the army of Darius the Great who mixed cheese and dates on baked flat bread. There are traces of Stone Age residents in the Italian peninsula baking bread beneath a fire, and then using it as a plate - something also common in ancient Greece. Certainly the close proximity and cross-conquests of people in the larger Mediterranean region meant that there was ample opportunity for the sharing of food ideas. The word “pizza” is said to have come from the word “pita” which describes a flat bread in many cultures around the Mediterranean.

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The Story of Coffee

Arts & Culture

Coffee beans

Coffee is one of the most pervasive drinks on earth, found nearly everywhere from Tucson to Timbuktu, from Beijing to Burundi. There is hardly a culture where it is not entrenched, one of the first things billions of hands reach for every morning. Like its main competitor, tea, it is said to have health benefits. Both have an active ingredient, caffeine, which helps to wake us up and keep us going. Coffee drinking, however, is a comparatively recent activity, far younger than tea or alcohol consumption.

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Where Do Passports Come From?

Arts & Culture

Map and Passports

How old are passports? Who invented them? As some of us prepare to travel abroad this summer and are searching for our passports or applying for our first ones, it is worth considering where these all-important pieces of paper originated. They are both much older than we might think, and much younger in their present form.

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What is Money?

Arts & Culture

Hundred dollar bills

We use money everyday to purchase our food, pay for the roof over our head, and purchase various good and services. But have you ever wondered how the concept of money began or where it first originated? Or even why it works? These are actually very profound questions and the answers have as much to do with history, economics and technology as with human psychology. The story of money represents the many bonds between different people, cultures and individual human beings.

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When Were Postcards Invented?

Arts & Culture

FIFA Stadium

We think of postcards as part of modern life, whether in their printed or electronic versions. Surprisingly, they have not been around that long! It has been just over a hundred years since the so-called “postcard revolution” hit the world. Before then postcards, or paper cards with a picture or drawing on one side and message or address on the back were largely unknown to the world. How they came to be is a fascinating historical story.

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The World Soccer Cup in South Africa

Sports

FIFA Stadium

On June 11th, the 19th World Soccer Cup will open in South Africa. It will be the first World Cup ever held in an African nation. FIFA World soccer cups, held every four years (except during World War II) began in 1930 with the tournament in Uruguay. Since then they have grown to become by far the world’s most popular single sporting event, with billions watching each tournament. Some 735 million people are said to have seen the 2006 final match, making it the most watched single sporting event ever. This was seven times as many people as watch the annual Superbowl in the US! There is no more international sport than soccer, which is known as football everywhere in the world except the US.

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Is There Life Out There? Ask SETI!

Wondrous World

The Coma Cluster of Galaxies

Every since human beings have been gazing up at the stars, we have wondered whether there are other living creatures out there. Ancient humans often believed that the gods resided above us, and the stars and constellations they formed became part of a living, divine cosmos of which earth was an integral part. Specific beliefs varied from culture to culture. The Mongolians had one of the simplest names - they called it the “Great Blue Sky.” When Genghis Khan needed to win a battle, or the lowliest nomad had to find his herd, it was to the “Great Blue Sky” over the Mongolian countryside that they turned to for help.

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A Binary Black Hole System

Wondrous World

Binary Black Hole 3C75

Few things are as fascinating to astronomers or the general public as black holes. Can you imagine something so dense that light cannot escape from it? That sucks in everything that comes its way? If the earth were as compact as a black hole, it would be a ball about a half-inch across! Few things in the universe completely boggle the human mind as black holes.

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Joseph Pilates

Arts & Culture

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Have you ever heard of Pilates? Do you know who invented this exercise method? Well, you are about to find out!

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Before the Movies there were . . .

Arts & Culture

magic lantern

What did people do before there were cinemas? Well, there was (and still is) theater. But artificial moving images? Believe it or not, there was a compelling option, and it helped lead the way to the moving picture. It was called the magic lantern.

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The Muscle Car Era

Arts & Culture

red muscle car

With the release of the newest Chevron Car, Moe Muscle, we would like to take a step back to a time when lightweight, powerful American cars roamed the streets.

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The Evolution of the Typewriter

History

Old Typewriter

Kids today may go through life without ever seeing it. Yet without the typewriter, there would be no computer as we know it. The typewriter is the primate ancestor to the personal computer that we have made part of our lives. Did you ever wonder why computer keyboards have the strange layout that they have, with the QWERTY keys across the top left? The answer lies buried in decisions made more than a hundred years ago, when the typewriter first appeared on the plains of industry.

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