Five Fast Fact for Friday: Exterminator
Exterminators provide a service that you might not think about or value much – until your deck has been eaten by termites or bats have made a home in your eaves. Here are five...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Henry Ford
Henry Ford used his imagination and skills to change the automobile industry. Here are five fast facts you may not know about Henry Ford: Ford’s first working automobile was a quadricycle that he couldn’t...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Adele
Adele debuted in 2008 and has become one of the world’s top singer-songwriters. There are many fascinating facts about Adele that you may not know: Adele often imitated the Spice Girls and loved to...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Landslides
Often, the deadliest landslides happen with little warning. I have driven through the Frank Slide in the Crowsnest Pass many times and always find it quite eerie to consider that some of the town’s...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Japan
I visited Japan in 1991 and found it was a country of paradoxes – the latest in high tech devices sold a block away from a centuries-old temple, and brides dressed in traditional red...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Anne Frank
Anne Frank’s story is well-known around the world. Here are five fast facts you may not know: In 2013, more than one million people visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The play, The...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Manta Rays
When I’m swimming in the ocean, it’s always in the back of my mind that a ray could be underfoot. They’re flat, well-camouflaged and downright scary. Remember how Steve Irwin died? As I researched...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Flight
If you could become an animal, what would you choose? I would like to be a bird, able to soar over mountains and deserts. When I was researching facts for this book, I discovered many...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Gorillas
I could watch the gorillas at the zoo for hours. Did you know they are the largest of the apes and live only in the forests of Africa? Here are a few more facts about gorillas:...
Five Fast Facts for Friday: Gemstones
Minerals that are beautiful, durable and rare are called gemstones. Here are a fewthings you might not know about gemstones: The Star of India is the world’s largest sapphire. It was discovered more than...
Who have YOU met on the internet?
If you look carefully, you can find some fascinating, helpful people through the internet. While writing Dirty Jobs: Coal Miner (published by Weigl, 2014), I was challenged to find accurate, reliable details about modern...
