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    Gardening: the Beginnings

    The modern garden has a history going back many thousands of years. The first ‘garden’, was a vegetable-garden, where early humans cultivated different types of plants for food.

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    Gambling

    Human beings have spent large amounts of money trying to beat the laws of probability for centuries.

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    Extra sensory perception

    ESP is a catch-all expression for the alleged ability of certain people to receive transmitted thoughts from others, to transmit their own thoughts, or to see what will happen in the future, or move things.

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    Exams

    Do you remember that nasty feeling of sweaty palms? A wave of nausea coming over you? I’m talking about waiting at the door of an exam room, convinced that you know nothing…

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    Ecotourism

    Nowadays, many of us try to live in a way that will damage the environment as little as possible. And we want to take these attitudes on holiday with us. Ecotourism is becoming more popular…

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    What did a dinosaur look like?

    Dinosaur art has a long history, in natural history museums, children's toys and films. We love looking at dinosaurs. But what are we seeing? The real thing? Or a little fact and a lot of imagination?

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    Development

    Development is happening everywhere around the world and it has started to be called "globalisation". There is a serious argument that this process is unfair and that it is causing a lot of poverty...

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    Death

    Death is something that everybody has in common. We are all born, we all live and we all die. However, the customs, beliefs and traditions surrounding death can differ greatly between different groups of people, different parts of the world or different stages throughout history.
     

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    Grameen Bank

    "I felt ashamed of myself for being part of a society which could not provide even twenty-seven dollars to forty-two hardworking, skilled human beings," so Muhammed Yunus started his own bank.

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    Crazy Festivals

    There are festivals going on somewhere in the world every day of the year, involving whole cities or just small villages. Here are a few of the more unusual, colourful festivals from around the world.

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