10. Beirut, Lebanon Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As there has been no recent population census, the exact population is unknown; estimates in 2007 ranged from slightly less than 1 million to slightly more than 2 million. Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon’s Mediterranean coast, it serves as …

The Green Monkey (foaled February 4, 2004 in Florida, picture below) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. At the January 2006 Fasig-Tipton Calder sale of selected two-year-olds, The Green Monkey was sold for a world record auction price of $16 million. The subject of this article is not to talk about the most expensive horses but …

Some people believe that the Hammock was first invented in Athens by the statesman Alcibiades (c.450-404 BC), a student of the famous Greek philosopher Socrates. However, it appears that the use of Hammocks for sleeping in was not widely adopted by the ancient Greek culture, in fact it was the indigenous tribes of the Caribbean …