English sweating sickness
In the 15th century, English ‘sweating sickness’ killed thousands of people and then disappeared; nobody knows what it was.
☰ readA Little Knowledge is A Dangerous Thing...indeed
Under Chairman Mao, every Chinese family was obliged to kill a sparrow a week to stop them eating all the rice. The project was ineffective because sparrows don’t eat rice.
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A bikini is usually a women's abbreviated two-piece swimsuit with a bra top for the chest and panties cut below the navel.
☰ readChristmas Truce
Even at the distance of a century, no war seems more terrible than World War I. In the four years between 1914 and 1918, it killed or wounded more than 25 million people.
☰ readThe Unlikely Christmas
Inspired by real events from 100 years ago.
☰ readNeanderthals: Up Close[r]
Fred H. Smith a physical anthropologist at Loyola University in Chicago who has been studying Neanderthal DNA says that neanderthals "were believed to be scavengers who made primitive tools and w…
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