Newspaper reporters are historians, recording the events of each day for a community. They say a daily newspaper is the first rough draft of history. Over the years, I became intrigued by the knowledge of the ancients. I clipped stories coming across my desk and retained others, amazed at how their discoveries became the foundations of today's modern science. While the West was trying to crawl out of The Dark Ages, the East was measuring the diametre of the earth, discovering the concept of 0 (the basis of all mathematics), mapping the night sky more...
