Tracy J. Moody

Pixabay in Arts & Entertainment by Focifo When was the last time you deciphered clues, solved a mystery, and escaped from captivity? If your answer wasn't recently, then you've been missing out! Throughout the country, a new trend is growing. Escape rooms are now available in dozens of cities. Keep reading to check out our list of the best escape rooms in the nation. 1. Real Escape Game (CA) Back in 2007,  SCRAP entertainment  created the first escape room in Japan. The concept was so popular that it spread across the world like wildfire. Those same creators brought their amazing new escape games to San Francisco. It shouldn't come as a surprise that their rooms are often voted the number one interactive escape games in America. On top of the escape rooms, they also hold escape game events. 2. Room Escape Live (CA) Room Escape Live in Los Angeles holds the title for one of the b...

At first glance, the humble shipping container might not look like much: just a simple steel box that we pack things into for transportation. Take a closer look, however, and you’ll come to the realisation that this seemingly modest box has had a profound effect on our world, becoming an integral part of the modern society we currently live in. Before the 1950’s maritime shipping used to be very different from what it is today. Loading and unloading of ships used to be done manually by dockworkers. They would individually load onto ships the cargo to be transported (usually a mixed assortment of bags, crates, drums, and barrels) and later unload the vessel at the destination port. This traditional method of shipping was called “break bulk shipping,” on account of how bulk cargo was split into small batches to make manual loading and offloading of vessels easier. The method was time-consuming – sometimes taking as much time to unload a ship at port as the voyage there did. Loss and...