A roaring laughter erupts all throughout the financial world when in 1998 Mercedes-Benz’s parent company Daimler announced its purchase of Chrysler. Hilarity is soon followed by a moment of silence observed in sympathy, as Daimler discloses the amount paid for the transaction: 37 Billion.

 Before anything else today, I’d like to take a moment and remind husbands all through our civilisation that next Sunday is Mother’s Day, so please help the rest of us break the very mythical and erronuous belief than men can’t remember such ocassions as birthdays, anniversaries and Mother’s Day by bringing some flowers and a […]

The lights go out on one of the greatest luminaries who ever lived, as this day of 1519 sees Leonardo da Vinci take his very last breath. He suffered a massive heart failure after being told by close friend Nostradamus that his personal diary would one day serve as the basis for horrible movie…

On this day in 1789 George Washington becomes the first US president to trip on the steps in publicand come close to breaking his neck right after being inaugurated into office, a tradition that only one of his many successors would be patriotic enough to carry over.