The first time I stumbled across a reference to the disease known as phthiriasis (pronounced “thuh-RY-uh-sis) I was reading Plutarch’s gleeful account of the death of the Roman tyrant Sulla.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 – 78 BC), who had a… Read More
Cocos Island, in the Pacific Ocean, was once a pirate hideout. Historians have suggested that the island may still contain as much as 2 billion dollars worth of buried pirate treasure.