Countries of the World

It's thought that oranges get their name from the Sanskrit word for fragrant – naranja. The use of the word 'orange' to describe a cross between red and yellow wasn't recorded until three hundred years after the fruit appeared in Europe.

No one can say that Whitney Houston wasn’t phenomenally talented. She sang back up for Chaka Khan, Lou Rawls, and Jermaine Jackson when she was just 19 years old! Houston was also a highly sought-after model. She was the first woman of color on the cover of Seventeen and Glamour magazines.

Austria’s children must be extremely ill-behaved. Why else would the alpine nation have created the Krampus, a nasty, demon-like creature that roams the streets in search of them? In December, young men will dress up as Krampus and scare pedestrians with gruesome pranks...