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…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) of Austria was a keen and skilful billiards player. A slight deformity of his left ear was hidden by his wig. Mahler’s last word before he died was “Mozart”.
Chimpanzees and the other great apes - gorillas, orangutans, etc. - are always one of the favourite attractions in any zoo. The main reason for this is because they are so similar to us.
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