Tiberius was born in 42 BC as Tiberius Claudius Nero, sharing his name with his father, a Roman politician. His mother was Livia Drusilla. His parents split up when he was little, and Livia went on to marry Octavian, who later became the emperor Augustus. That made Tiberius the stepson of Rome’s first emperor. He…
Things I Hate: The Blair Witch Project (1999 Film)
The Blair Witch Project came out in the very late end of the 1990s. I was a bit too young for horror movies at the time, since I would’ve only been 10 or 11 when it was released. I’ll also always associate this movie with my middle name, Blair, which was named after my grandfather,…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Chemical Element Holmium
Holmium takes its name from Holmia, the Latin designation for Stockholm, Sweden, the home city of one of its co-discoverers. It was identified in 1878 by Swiss chemists Marc Delafontaine and Jacques-Louis Soret, and independently by Swedish chemist Per Teodor Cleve, who is generally given primary credit for the discovery. Holmium has atomic number 67…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Columbus Day/Indigenous People’s Day
Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day share the same calendar date, observed on the second Monday of October and giving many Americans a three-day weekend. The occasion marks Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492, a moment that set in motion a permanent transformation of world history. Columbus was Italian by birth…
Our Visit To The Bee City Zoo (Cottageville, SC)
This Labor Day, my family and I took a mini vacation down to Charleston, South Carolina, since my father-in-law owns a beach house on James Island. While hunting for something fun to break up the drive, I stumbled across Bee City Zoo in Cottageville, South Carolina, a tiny, obscure town that even most South Carolinians…