Running 2000 miles from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail is the longest marked trail in the U.S. More than a quarter of those miles are in Virginia First proposed in 1921, the Appalachian Trail was completed in 1937, largely by volunteers Every year about 2000 people set out to …

Less than 40 percent of the world uses the Daylight Saving Time system Most African and Asian countries, such as India and China, have decided to opt out of the system altogether More than a century before it was adopted by any major country, Benjamin Franklin suggested the idea of …

The name Kiev is said to derive from the name Kiy, one of four legendary siblings who founded the city in the 5th century Kiev was the largest town in XI century Europe, fifty times the size of London, ten times the size of Paris In the Ukrainian village of …