Art Prints

The painting depicts the riverbank of the Seine at the Pont de Clichy where the artist often painted accompanied by Signac. Under the artist influe...

The cypress is a tree closely associated to the Provence landscapes where van Gogh lived during the last years of his life. As they are evergreen a...

In Italy, April 2011, the world's largest chocolate Easter egg was made which measured over 34 feet in length, and weighed over 7 tons.

The woven containers of a basket, often in illustrations for Easter, besides being a useful tool for carefully collecting during Easter egg hunts, ...

It is said that the concept of the Easter bunny giving candies and eggs originated in Germany during the Middle Ages. The first written mention of ...

The first Fabergé Egg was commissioned by the Czar Alexander III to Carl Fabergé as an Easter gift for his wife, giving full freedom on the design...

The average time for cracking open the first Easter egg is 11am on Easter Sunday morning (although studies show that nearly half the children give ...

COVID-19 has affected us all over the world. Previous pandemics previously experienced include the H2N2 flu in 1957 (1.1million+ fatalities), 1918 ...

Although Easter is a religious holiday, Easter eggs originated from pagan traditions. As a symbol of new life, the egg was associated to Spring in ...

The expression, used to excuse oneself when using offensive language, was traditionally used when the upper classes in English high society would a...

Originally, gardens were used to grow food and medicinal herbs. Decorative gardens appeared around 1400 BC. The earliest surviving detailed garden ...

A study found bacteria in soil can trigger the release of serotonin. Through gardening and making contact with soil, even re-potting indoor plants,...

Within your garden there are more microorganisms in just one teaspoon of soil than the number of people living on our beautiful planet.

Talk to anyone who has raised a garden. The feeling to see a garden successfully bloom or to harvest food brings an amazing sense of self-esteem an...

"Mum" in English, "mama" in Mandarin Chinese, as well as in Spanish, "mamma" in Iceland, "ma" in Punjabi - this is no coincidence. The first sound ...

We inherit equal amounts of genetic mutations from both our parents, but scientists have found that we use more mutations from our father's genes. ...

Words referring to cats being used as vulgar slang for female genitals also exist in some other European languages too. Examples include German "mu...

With modern technology, it is possible to have your anus rejuvenated like a virgin by laser cosmetic surgery. Initially a procedure that was develo...

The average person annually uses over 20,000 sheets of toilet paper (100 rolls). It takes over 380 trees to produce the toilet paper that the avera...

The word "fan" is a shortened version of the word “fanatic”, which is a word introduced into English around 1550, as a word to describe somebody "m...

Popcorn and the movies were inextricably bound by 1945, with over half of the popcorn consumed in America being consumed at the movies.

The 20th century saw the average life expectancy shooting up 30 years, which is the greatest gain in 5,000 years of human history. Making it to bei...

The first birthday cake is believed to have been made in Germany in the Middle Ages. Germans would hold a Kinderfest celebration for the children's...

The smell of a book can be a reminder of things past, with all the linked memories, but also, the smell acts as a trigger of excitement, for the an...

According to the National Sleep Foundation, a bedtime reading ritual helps to prepare the body for sleep, aiding the mind to unwind, separating sle...

Studies show that those who have a positive outlook about ageing outlive those with negative views by several years, regardless of pre-existing hea...

The expression to “fall in love”, has been with us for a long time. One of the earliest entries is in a poem by Edmund Spenser published in the 1590s.

According to a research by the BBC, in comparison to those without siblings, people who connect and go through life with their siblings are more ap...

Studies show that people who follow a vegan or vegetarian diet tend to display lower blood cholesterol, lower blood pressure and a decreased rate o...

Some hospitals apparently keep a supply of beer for alcoholics, in case a patient goes through withdrawal, which can actually be fatal. It was comm...

A university study showed that the more brothers a man has, the faster his sperm swim and the greater his fertility - one of the many things to tha...

Did you know that when you lose weight, fat leaves your body via your breath? The fat is released as carbon dioxide when we exhale, but before you ...

Useful fact about booze. We're told to drink milk before a heavy night of alcohol. Whilst it is a good idea to have food in the stomach prior to dr...

Did you know, the smaller the bubbles, the better the quality of the champagne? A bottle of champagne at room temperature contains around 49 millio...

Even a recent study supports the benefits of weightlifting, not only as an effective way of relieving stress, but also for the intelligence. Going ...

Ever wondered which nation leads in the battle of book reading? This is in fact Iceland, where people read more books per capita than in any other ...