Remarkably, the only European nation that still cherishes its ethnicity and culture, and is determined to preserve it at all costs is the Sámi people of the frozen north. The Sámi people, an indigenous group native to the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula […]
When merchant ships reached the Persian Gulf, Japan and the Far East, the North and South Americas and Australia and New Zealand, ship crews eagerly waited for the shipping agent to bring on board the mail posted many weeks before in the United Kingdom.
DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville. Scientists have ‘definitively’ proved the identity of remains – with the navigator’s precise origins to be revealed Scientists in Spain have solved the two lingering mysteries that cling to Christopher Columbus more than five centuries after the explorer died Are […]
The photograph of women having tea in New Zealand in 1890 captures a moment that reflects the social customs and cultural practices of the time. During the late 19th century, afternoon tea became a popular ritual, especially among Victorian society’s middle and upper classes. It served as a […]
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899
A seaman who fell overboard from a supply ship in the vast Pacific Ocean at 4 am spent more than 14 hours clinging to an old fishing buoy before being rescued. Alone in the middle of the world’s greatest ocean, and without a lifejacket, at first dawn he […]
The 31-year-old beauty from Virginia completed the 2,168-mile (3,489 km) backcountry trail in 40 days, 18 hours, and five minutes, a distance usually covered by an A.T. thru-hiker in five to seven months.
Her teacher was taken aback when another student said: “Please don’t shoot so many people in my country.”
“Could you repeat that very slowly,” the tutor replied. The student spelt it out for her: “Police don’t shoot people in my country.”
One afternoon, whilst heeding a call of nature by using one of the dock toilets his eye caught sight of a copy of the Daily Telegraph. Bored, he flicked through the newspaper’s pages as he waited to discharge his cargo.
In airports, you are processed from one unsmiling robotic functionary to another. As in a penitentiary you are given a number, scrutinised, placed under constant surveillance and processed through the system. Typically, you’re in the airport longer than you are in the air.
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