It is the most dangerous city in the world, but fortunately it is also a training ground for the FBI. In the 1980s, the FBI wanted their agents to have a bit more realistic training, so they decided to build a small town in which to simulate all kinds of extreme situations, from robbing a […]

If, like everybody, you have ever eaten the famous Marie Biscuits, you will like to know their origin. At the end of the 19th century, James Peek and George H. Frean, master pastry owners of the Peek, Frean & Co. patisserie, decided to create a new type of biscuit that would move away from the […]

Imagine that you are going to do a work at home, you tear down a wall in the basement and a stone cabin appears. And a corridor. And another cabin. And you go down some stairs, and others, and others. And it turns out that you’ve just discovered an underground city that’s over 3,000 years […]

In this age when leaders around the world have to make risky, tough and controversial decisions, it is good to remember how the Persians did it a long, long time ago. According to Herodotus, the Persians had a curious way of making their most important decisions: “well drunk.” As Herodotus was very fine speaking, I […]