Countries of the World

The employees at the Unclaimed Baggage Centre at Scottsboro Airport have made some interesting finds over the years, most notably a camera from a space shuttle and – amazingly – the missile guidance system of a fighter jet. Someone must have had a lot of explaining to do...

The earliest microscopes were called flea glasses because they were predominantly used to observe small insects such as fleas! These microscopes were simple in construction, using different shapes and sizes of glass with low power (6x to 10x). They were invented by the Romans.

Mycenae is an ancient Greek city-state atop a rocky hill in the Peloponnese. Believed to be an important cultural and political center of ancient Greece, the city flourished during the Late Bronze Age, a period that became known as “Mycenaean.”