The Mayan people did not die out or become extinct. Millions who are direct descendants of the ancient Mayan people live in North and South America. The ancient culture that most are familiar with regarding the Mayan people did die out. Ruins in Belize, South Mexico, and Guatemala evidence advanced peoples who had a written language, mathematics, astronomical systems, art, and architecture. The demise of the ancient Mayan culture has multiple possibilities as the cause. There is no consensus among the scholarly community regarding the cause for the demise of this ancient culture. Speculation continues to grow to answer this question. Some say famine. Some say enemi...

World War I (aka WWI; World War; the Great War; First World War) officially began July 28, 1914. There were two sides in the war: the Allies and the Central Powers. The Allies consisted of the United Kingdom, France, and Russia. The Central Powers initially consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. Some might argue that a war on the scale of the first war, as far as Europe was concerned, was inevitable. The reasons being: (1) the consequences of the imperialistic activities of the German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, Russian, British empires along with the French Republic and Italy; and (2) alliances between nations that demanded countries enter wars to defend me...

Michael Jackson died a few months short of his 51 birthday on June 25, 2009. Conrad Murray (Jackson's personal doctor) found Jackson in his room not breathing but with a faint pulse. Murray called an ambulance, but when they arrived, Jackson was in a cardiac arrest. The EMT performed CPR on Jackson then rushed him to the hospital. Shortly after the ambulance arrived at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Michael Jackson was pronounced dead. Two months later on August 28, 2009 Los Angeles County Coroner pronounced Jackson's death--a homicide. A month before Jackson death, Conrad Murray prescribed Propofol and two anti-anxiety drugs: Benzodiazepines (Lorazepam) and Midaz...

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated on April 15, 1865. The first United States President to die of an assassination, Mr. Lincoln received a single shot to the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth at point-blank range. At the Ford’s Theatre in Washington, while watching “Our American Cousin,” the bullet lodged in Mr. Lincoln’s brain, rendering him comatose. Doctors were unable to do anything to save the President’s life. About 8 hours afterwards, Mr. Lincoln died. He was shot on Good Friday evening and died the following Saturday morning. John Wilkes Booth, a stage actor and spy from Maryland, was part of a conspirac...

Through what can only be described as fate, Adolf Hitler proved to be a brilliant politician who through great speeches won the hearts and minds of the Germany people at the right time and place in human history. After losing World War I and having to submit to the Treaty of Versailles that set the conditions of Germany’s surrender, the people of Germany were angry, poor, and seemingly humiliated. The Weimar government that signed the Treaty of Versailles became very unpopular. The German nation was defeated, humiliated, poverty stricken, and spinning downward. There was a vacuum of leadership. After returning from retirement, Paul Von Hindenburg was elected presiden...

Earth is the only planet that has oxygen that scientists are aware of, so far. The earth is special in this sense: it can support human life. It has an atmosphere. Three possible options exist to explain the formation of earth’s atmosphere: (1) evolution; (2) creationism; or (3) theistic evolution. Science speculates that the earth’s atmosphere developed in three stages. First, earth’s original atmosphere was largely hydrogen and helium. Scientists speculate that since the sun has these two gases in abundance, they would have been part of anything that developed from the sun. Since these two gases escaped from earth’s first atmosphere, volcanic eruptions fr...

The Titanic – the largest and most luxurious ocean liner of its time – crashed into an iceberg during its maiden voyage on April 14, 1912. It sank several hours later on the morning of April 15, 1912. That the ship hit an iceberg that did irreparable damage is beyond dispute. That the ship took on water in the first six compartments meets with agreement by most who study the matter. However, what remains unsettled is this question: did the ship receive several large lacerations that allowed the ship to take on water or did the iron rivets holding the sheets of metal together in the front portion of the ship prove too weak to hold the sheets of metal together once t...

On February 11, 2012, Whitney Elizabeth Houston died in her guest room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California. After not hearing from Ms. Houston for nearly an hour, her stylist, hairdresser, and bodyguard discovered her naked body submerged in a bathtub. Subsequent toxicology reports showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub due to a lethal mix of prescription pills and alcohol, which could have fatally sedated her. The temperature of the bath water taken subsequent to the discovery of Ms. Houston’s body was 91.4 degrees, which indicates that the water was much too hot for a bath when she entered the tub. Her autopsy revealed trac...

All types of magnets work on the same basic principle. The nucleus of the atom has protons and neutrons. The electrons are moving around. In most materials, all the electrons form pairs. Those pairs typically cancel each other out so that no magnet field results. In those materials where the electrons do not pair up, it is possible for those metals to be magnetic. However, what must happen to make a magnet is this: the electrons must spin in the same direction. The atoms of certain materials tend to have their own magnetic field, which results from electrons moving around the nucleus in the same direction. Small groups of atoms tend to orient or point in a certain direc...

The second great world war (aka World War II) officially began on September 1, 1939 when the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (aka Nazi) of Germany invaded the country of Poland. In previous periods of world history, the British, France, Spain, and Italy (the Romans) had ruled much of the known world. Perhaps, the Germans (in the mind of Hitler) wanted to be a part of this august group. After their defeat in World War I, the Germans began a period of introspection and nationalism. Limited by the treaty of Versailles, many Germans we...

Volcanoes are the result of magma. When one stands on the surface of the earth, his feet stand on the earth’s crust. The crust of the earth ranges from three to about forty miles deep. Under the crust of the earth is the mantle. The mantle is the thickest layer of the earth ranging about 1800 miles deep. The next layer, known as the core consists of both an outer and inner region. The earth’s mantle layer is solid rock. Due to the extreme heat of the core, parts of the mantle layer often are heated to such levels that portions of it melt and become liquid rock. That melted rock is called magma. Magma is melted rock that once visible on the surface of the earth is c...

Moving from top to bottom, the earth consists of four major layers: crust, mantle, outer and inner core. The crust and the top of the mantle make up the skin of our planet. However, this skin is not one whole piece. It is made up of many pieces like a puzzle covering the face of the earth. Additionally, the pieces keep slowly moving around, sliding past one another, and bumping into each other. These are tectonic plates and the edges of the plates are called the plate boundaries. The plate boundaries consists of faults lines. Most of the earthquakes around the world occur along these faults. Since the edges of the plates are rough and uneven, they get stuck while t...

The formation of the Grand Canyon remains one of nature’s great mysteries. Some believe the canyon is the result of the Colorado River cutting through rock over millions and millions of years. Others believe the canyon is the result of the great Noah Flood detailed in Genesis 6. Recently, LifeScience offers the notion that a large anomalous structure beneath the Colorado Plateau suggests that at one time it rose up 1.2 miles. A subsequent invasion of hot molten rock (magma) that has eroded away leaving deep valleys best explains the canyon. Any explanation that explains how the Grand Canyon was formed is speculation. At present, no answer seems better than any oth...