In today’s age of political division you will occasionally hear a politician offering to “extend an olive branch” to the opposition. This symbolic act of making peace with an olive branch goes back th...

With her wings, monstrous face and venomous snakes for hair, Medusa's appearance was so frightening it turned anyone who gazed upon it to stone. The story of Medusa is a chilling one. Greek mythology ...

The Nuestra Senora de Atocha, meaning “Our Lady of Atocha” named after a holy shrine in Madrid, is without doubt one of the most famous shipwrecks in history. Beginning in the late 1500’s and extendin...

The internet is full of speculation about the value of “bitcoins”, the so-called whole world currency. These bloggers might be surprised to learn that the world had a universally recognized coin over ...

Chariot racing was the most popular sport in ancient Greece and Rome. It is hard to imagine that 2,000 years ago as many as 250,000 people would gather in the Circus Maximus in Rome to watch chariot r...

In the 1770’s things were not going well for Spain’s colony in New Orleans. Inflation was rampant and merchants were wary of accepting paper currency which lost value weekly. Throughout the city talks...

Q: Why are early Spanish coins called cobs, and what is a bit? During Spain`s 300 years of colonial rule, huge silver and gold deposits were discovered in the New World. Rather than ship this silver b...