The idea of the cooperative is one of the greatest British inventions. It all began with a small shop in Toad Lane, Rochdale in Lancashire. The “Rochdale pioneers” wanted to change the world.
Are you convinced that your government is in contact with UFOs? Do you get the feeling that we are being watched? Then you are probably a believer in conspiracy theories.
Schooldays are supposed to be the best days of your life and part of that experience usually involves some strenuous physical activity. Here are some recollections of what happened on the sports field.
One of the most interesting findings of the census of 2001 was that a million people were missing. Should we be happy that we have more space and less mouths to feed? I don’t know.
In 2004 the Olympic Games returned to its home in Greece, where it began around 3000 years ago. The first recorded Olympic festival took place in 776 BC, and sport was only one part of the festival.
Fela Kuti returned to Nigeria and invented his own style which was called 'afrobeat': a mixture of American funk rhythms and jazz improvisation with African percussion and vocals.
Millions of people all over the world are illiterate and in industrialised Western countries, such as the UK and the USA, approximately 20% of the population have 'low literacy levels'.
Linus Pauling was the only person who has ever won two (unshared) Nobel Prizes: Chemistry in 1954 and a Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is also known as "the vitamin C man".
A world like no other – perhaps this is the best way to describe the world of the rainforest. No rainforest is exactly the same, but they all have a role to play in maintaining the world as we know it.
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