Lake Baikal
It is the oldest existing freshwater lake on our planet. Lake Baikal is also the deepest lake, containing more water than all of North America’s Great Lakes combined! The lake stays covered with ice...
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Statue of Zeus
“If Zeus moved to stand up he would unroof the temple,” – so said the Greek historian, Strabo, about the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. The statue was built the Greek sculptor Phidias. In...
Pablum
The first cooked dried infant cereal, Pablum, is 100 percent Canadian and still i use today. In 1931 three doctors at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children developed an easily digested cereal and fortified it...
Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility: Johnson Space Center
The Apollo lunar landing missions of 1969 – 72 brought back invaluable geological samples weighing some 842 pounds (382 kg). The Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility, covering 14,000 square feet (1,300 sqm), was constructed in...
Ginger Ale
Back around the turn of the 20th century Toronto pharmacist John J. McLaughlin was busy making fruit-and-herb-flavored soda water that he sold to local drugstores for their soda fountains. In 1904 he developed a...
Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls is considered to be the world’s largest curtain of water. The locals call it ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’, meaning ‘smoke that thunders’. This is an apt name since the falls looks like rising smoke when...
May West Cake
The creme-filled, chocolate-frosted snack cake was originally named Mae West after the buxom actress, but the name changed in the 1980s to avoid lawsuits from the actress’s estate
Harvey’s
The Harvey’s fast food chain is named for an unsuccessful Toronto auto dealer. In 1959 restaurateur Rick Mauran wanted a simple name for is new operation. He considered “Humphrey’s,” but then ran across the...
Colossus of Rhodes
For about 56 years, the Colossus stood tall — a symbol of courage and unity of the people of Rhodes. The magnificent statue was built in honor of Helios, the sun god. The event...
The Tomb, Yale University
Overall secret societies associated with American universities none in or famous than Skull and Bones, whose members meet in a building known as the Tomb. The society boasts a list of alumni that includes...
