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…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Singapore Dollar
The Singapore dollar is the official currency of Singapore, carrying the sign $ and the currency code SGD. Each dollar divides into one hundred cents, and it is commonly written as S$ to distinguish it from other dollar currencies around the world. The Monetary Authority of Singapore is responsible for issuing the country’s banknotes and…
Things I Like: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011 Film)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 was the first Harry Potter film I watched after already finishing the books. I was genuinely eager to finally know every detail of how the story wrapped up, so once I’d read everything, I still couldn’t wait to see it unfold in theaters too. As much as…