Sojourner Truth was an African-American anti-slavery campaigner who lived during the American Civil war, when African-Americans were seen as inferior to white people, and women were seen as inferior to men.
Outlandish figures dressed in alien costumes, using strange and complicated pieces of equipment to take them at terrifying speeds down frozen landscapes. Is that the Winter Olympics?
The weather - it affects where we choose to live, what we wear, our moods, and perhaps even our national characteristics. A sunny day can relieve a deep depression.
On the water, in the water or under the water, there is a huge range of sports and activities available to lovers of H2O. Let’s take a look at some of the more colourful and adventurous water sports.
Find out about five of the most deadly animals in Australia: the sea wasp, the funnelweb spider, the fierce snake, the blue-ringed octopus and the cone shell.
Cairo, Bologna, and Paris have been offering it the longest. What am I talking about? A university education, of course. So who goes to university and what do they get out of their experience?
Trees have always fascinated people. They are the biggest living things on our planet, and one of the most beautiful. Trees appear in many religions and have inspired artists for thousands of years.
Railways are not a modern invention as most of us think. The idea of transporting things and people on rails has been around for a long time. Rails were made of wood, and wagons were pulled by horses.
Tobacco is grown in more than one hundred countries. Tomatoes and tobacco are both members of the same botanical family. Tobacco smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals.
Earlier this year, I read that a woman called Mary Seacole had been voted the ‘Greatest Black Briton’ of all time in a BBC poll. I was shocked to realise that I had no idea who she was…
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