Heart
American draft dodger Mike Fisher formed this band with a group of his Seattle friends (including his brother Roger, and sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson) who had trickled up to Vancouver. First signed to...
May 2019
Croatia’s Adriatic Coast
Imagine Roman ruins set against the stunning colors of Croatia’s Adriatic Coast, and you can really envision how magical it must have been during the Roman times. May is the time to go, so...
Weird Waters of Yellowstone
For at least a few million years, since magma a hole under ancient Wyoming’s bedrock, Yellowstone periodically disgorged a small ocean of lava in eruptions hundreds of times worse than any recent volcanic explosion...
Photocopiers
Few inventions have transformed office life as much as ‘Xerography’. Before photocopiers came on the market, if you wanted a copy of a document you had three alternates: copy it out on a...
Chilliwack
The Collectors found some minor success as a 1960s psychedelic group, but luckily the 1970s weren’t that far away. Changing their namme o Chilliwack – a Native North American term from the Salish language...
Fax
Sometimes an invention is made many years before there is any demand for it. This is what happened with the fax machine. The basic idea came to German inventor Arthur Korn in the early...
Washing Machine
Today, it is difficult for most people in Europe and America to imagine life without a washing machine. But for thousands of years, people washed their clothes by hand. In many places, people still...
Windmill
The first windmills were built in western Asia, probably in Syria, in the seventh century AD. In this part of the world, there are strong winds that almost always blow in the same direction....
Concrete
Concrete may seem like a very modern building material, but it was actually invented by the Romans. They made it by mixing fragments of stone with a mixture of lime and sand. The sand...
Chinois
Similar to shepherd’s pie, this French-Canadian dish features layers of ground beef, corn, and mashed potatoes. Despite the “Chinois” in its name (in French, pate Chinois means “Chinese pie”), it’s not Chinese. The dish...
