Why is a book of maps called an Atlas?

The ancient Greeks told tales about giant beings called Titans. The Titans one fought with the Greek gods and lost. So, the gods punished the Titans. Atlas’s punishment was to hold the sky up on his shoulders. He held the sky up for years and years.One Titan was named Atlas. Once, when Atlas was doing his “job”, Hercules came to him and asked him to find out some golden apples for him.... 

What is the best selling book of all times?

Once in 1996 the BRITISH TIME newspaper announced: “Forget modern British novelists and TV tie-ins, the Bible is the best-selling book every year. If sales of the Bible were included in best-seller lists, it would be a rare week when anything else would achieve a look in. It is wonderful, weird … that in this godless age… this one book should go on selling, every month.” Yes,...