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The word fact can refer to verified information about past or present circumstances or events which are presented as objective reality. In science, it means a provable concept. Etymology and usage The word fact derives from the Latin Factum, and was first used in English with the same meaning: "a thing done or performed", a use that is now obsolete. The common usage of, "something that has really occurred or is the case", dates from the middle of the sixteenth century...

A Chinese artist Zheng Chunhui has won a place in the Guinness Book of Records after creating the world's longest wooden carving. Zheng Chunhui, a famous wood carver, spent four years creating the artwork which is over 40ft long and made from a single tree trunk. The scene is actually a copy of the famous Chinese painting 'Along the River During the Qingming Festival' which was created over 1,000 years ago...

Mica Angela Hendricks is an illustrator and graphic artist. She’s also the mother to four-year-old girl Myla, who like her mom, loves to draw. She decided let her daughter draw the body, and she promptly draw a dinosaur’s. She says she was shocked and completely in love with what the end result of letting her daughter finish the drawings...

National Geographic, formerly the National Geographic Magazine, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded. It is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow frame that surrounds its front cover. There are 12 monthly issues of the National Geographic per year, plus additional map supplements. On rare occasions, special editions are issued...

Sarel Theron was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and has worked on many projects for local and international clients; book covers, advertising, game and magazine covers. Sarel is probably one of the best artists who make matte painting. He is an amazing South African illustrator, who creates matte painting for commercials and movies, and concept art for book covers and a graphic novel...