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History
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Here Is The Original New York Times Article About The 12-Years-A-Slave Guy, Written 161 Years Ago
04 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
’12 Years a Slave’ might be the talk of the town after winning Best Picture at this year’s Oscars, but back in 1853 interest in the life story of Solomon Northup was just as high. 161 years ago the New York Times did an article on Northup’s experience as a slave for 12 years. They dedicated an entire page to Northup, summarizing the story of free man being kidnapped and sold into slavery.
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They’ve Discovered An Ancient Gladiator School, And It Ain’t Pretty
03 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Film’s have often romanticized the lives of the famous ancient warriors. But the truth of the matter remains; they were slaves housed in fortress prisons. The gladiator school discovered outside of Vienna, Austria, is the first one discovered outside the city of Rome.
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Powerful Colour Photos Of Hitler’s Adoring Crowds [GALLERY]
25 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hitler’s life has been well documented and debated. Many an author and historian has tried their hand at describing and examining the rise to power of the nondescript, failed artist capable of brainwashing millions of people.
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DNA Tests Solve The Final Mystery Of The Titanic
21 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When it sank to the bottom of the ocean, the Titanic took many secrets along with it. But one secret, now labelled as ‘the Titanic’s last mystery’ has just been cracked.
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It Looks Like The Portuguese Beat The Dutch To Australia
20 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the past, the Dutch were always credited for being the first Europeans to land on Australian shores, when they arrived at the land down under in 1606.
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Incredible: This Is How The Game Of Monopoly Helped POWs Escape During World War II
16 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The game of Monopoly has been around for longer than most of us have lived (apologies if your are, in fact, 80).
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Top 10 Most Inspiring Nelson Mandela Quotes
06 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The legacy of Nelson Mandela all too easily overshadows the reality of the person he was. At the end of the day, he was a simple man who saw the wrong in the world, and committed himself to undoing it by any means.
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Watch Obama’s Tribute To Nelson Mandela [VIDEO]
06 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The world lost one of its greatest sons last night at 8:50 PM. Since then, news stations, politicians and celebrities have been pouring out tributes for South Africa’s former president.
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Here Is Jacob Zuma’s Nelson Mandela Announcement [VIDEO]
06 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This is a truly sad day for us all. Some may have woken to the news of Mandela’s passing, while others may have struggled to sleep after hearing the news last night. Either way, we have all been affected. We are all involved. We all feel this loss.
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This Is Where The Power Logo On Your Device Comes From [PICS]
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You see and use these symbols every day – but do you have any idea where they come from? Believe it or now, many of the UI symbols that have become second nature to us actually have a meaning derived from nature, history, and psychology. Some of these symbols were specifically designed with the user […]
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The Power Of The Swastika – How Hitler Drowned Germany With Big Brand Marketing [GALLERY]
25 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The swastika has become one of the most infamous and easily-recognisable symbols on earth, and that process didn’t happen overnight, and it didn’t happen by chance. A new series of photographs gives us a glimpse into how the symbol was systematically jammed into the minds of millions.
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They Reckon This Photo Of A Sea Burial On The Titanic Will Sell For R80,000 [PIC]
01 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A haunting photograph has been uncovered from the possessions of an officer on board the Mackay Bennett that shows the victims of the disaster being buried at sea. Records show that 166 out of 306 victims’ bodies, which were collected by the Mackay Bennett, were buried at sea, but no images have been seen until now.
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They Think They’ve Found 5,000 Year Old Game Tokens, Dice
16 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Gaming pieces have been uncovered in a 5,000 year-old burial site in Turkey. They could be the oldest gaming pieces found, ever. Small sculpted stones in the shapes of pigs, dogs, pyramids, dice, and so on were found in the site that was inhabited as early as 7,000 BC.
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4,000 Years Of World History Neatly Condensed Into One Map [PIC]
14 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is impressive. 4,000 years of world history have been condensed to fit onto a single map, created by John B. Sparks and printed in 1931 by Rand McNally. The 1,5 metre map was advertised as “clear, vivid and shorn of elabouration”. The Histomap displays four thousand year’s of World history, and with the use of colour empahised “how the power of various ‘peoples’ evolved throughout history”.
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Original Copy Of Schindler’s List Up For Auction On eBay With A Starting Price Of R29 Million
22 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It is believed that Oskar Schindler saved the lives of Jews that worked in his factories during World War II. The list detailing the Jewish refugees that Schindler saved has been placed on eBay for auction.
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Watch: Mandela’s Iconic 1990 Cape Town City Hall Speech, In Full [VIDEO]
18 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
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Yes, Hobbits Did Actually Once Exist
18 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In 2003, on the remote island of Flores in Indonesia, an 18,000 year-old fossil was discovered of Homo Floresiensis, a humanoid, one metre high. The discovery of the fossil led researchers to believe that they were a unique species of human, and not in fact deformed.
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English Archeologists Find Long Lost Remains Of King Richard III – Under A Parking Lot In Leicester
04 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s official! Since August 2012, archeologists have suspected that the lost remains of the last English king to be slain in battle, King Richard III were buried a few feet beneath a rather ordinary parking lot in Leicester. Richard’s ruin was smote upon the fields of Battle Bosworth in 1485 at the tender age of […]
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CIA Comes Clean About WMD Mistake In Declassified Document
07 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It was the reason America and Britain used to go to war in Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction. The CIA have finally declassified documents that show how the intelligence agency were bamboozled into believing Saddam Hussein had any.
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How Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette Describes The Bin Laden Raid
06 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Controversy surrounding no-longer-anonymous Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette has peaked because his book about his account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden is now for sale. Here’s an interesting summary of what he says went down.
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Undetonated 250Kg WWII Bomb Discovered And Destroyed In Munich [VIDEO]
29 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Imagine working on a construction site right in the heart of one of Germany’s largest cities, and suddenly coming across a large, rusty, unidentified object. Trying to figure out what the large, 250kg object is, you ask your foreman. You learn that it’s a bomb, left over from when the Allies bombed the shit out of you, 70 years ago.
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Thousands of Awesome Historic Aerial Photos Of Britain Go Online [PICS]
25 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
These photographs of famous landmarks such as St Paul’s Cathedral and Blackpool Tower could have been lost forever, were it not for a major conservation project which has made them freely available on the internet for the first time.
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Want A Piece Of History? Buy A Brick From Osama’s Compound For 40 Cents
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Osama Bin Laden is all over the news again, not bad for someone who has been dead and gone for quite some time now. Today sees the disclosure of documents seized at his compound. It is also a great opportunity for those looking for a keepsake to get in on the ground floor – the bricks from his compound are going on sale.
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Nobel Prize Winner Nadine Gordimer Says Scrap Info Bill “In Its Entirety”
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On World Press Freedom Day, the highly acclaimed writer, and Nobel Prize winner for literature, Nadine Gordimer, called for the Protection of Information Bill to be “rejected in its entirety.” She launched the scathing rebuttal in an article entitled, “South Africa: The New Threat to Freedom”, on the New York Review of Books website.
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Young Butchered Mammoth Discovered In Siberia
05 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A juvenile mammoth – nicknamed “Yuka” – was found entombed in Siberian ice near the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and shows signs of being cut open by ancient people. The frozen carcass is believed to be at least 10 000 years old – and could prove to be the first mammoth carcass revealing signs of human interaction in the region.
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Google Launches Incredible Nelson Mandela Digital Archive
28 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory has partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to launch what will arguably become the most extensive online archive of Nelson Mandela’s life. The free global access to photos, videos, letters and personal documents about his life and times will continue to expand as people across the world add their memorabilia to the archive.
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YouTube And NBC Will Live-Stream The Entire Summer 2012 Olympics For Free
09 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the first time ever, you’ll be able to watch every single Olympic event live, for free, without having to pirate it through some dodgy online stream. In fact, it’s actually a clever marketing ploy on the behalf of NBC, but still, it’s better than nothing.
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Invisible Children: Make Joseph Kony Famous [VIDEO]
07 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This might turn out to be the most inspiring documentary you will watch all year. A serious campaign is underway to bring down Joseph Kony, the infamous leader of the Ugandan guerrilla group: the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA is responsible for an unquantifiable number of atrocities across Uganda. Human trafficking, brutal rape, and child soldier deployment are commonplace. This is KONY 2102.
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Rare 19th Century Foundations Found In Cape Town
27 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Contract archaeologist, Katie Smuts, said on Friday that she estimated the foundations were constructed between 1830 and 1850, and that archaeologists were trying to determine their significance. Smuts jokingly compared that the styles revealed on the porcelain artefacts they found helped determine their age because it was similar to comparing the styles that hipsters wore on their clothes in the year 2012.
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D-Day For Greek Bailout
20 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Today, Euro zone finance ministers will meet to decide whether Greece has done enough to warrant a huge bailout loan of €130 billion. Greece needs the loan in order to avoid bankruptcy midway through March, when a massive repayment on its governmental debt must be completed.
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