Culture and Society Articles

Most people have gotten accustomed to listening to music on compact disk when they are driving. On a long trip though, it would be nice to catch up on some reading but since there is only one person driving, the reading might have to wait till the next stopover.

Youthful honor scholar Archimedes from Syracuse in the Kingdom of Sicily showed his genius in great Alexandria when he solved the problem of how to lift water up from the Nile to irrigate the fields. Killed on a beach back home as the Romans took over, his Archimedes screw, which is not unlike a ferris wheel, lives on anew at a canal in Scotland and makes use of a Roman tunnel nearby.