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History
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The TikTok ‘Holocaust’ Trend Is Everything That’s Wrong With Social Media
28 Aug 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
TikTok users have been participating in the #HolocaustChallenge by role-playing victims of the genocide.
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Five Excellent Podcasts That Take A Deep Dive Into History
25 Aug 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
If you want to brush up on your history without boring yourself to tears, there are podcasts out there that are as informative as they are entertaining.
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How Two SA Spearfishermen May Have Solved A 377-Year Mystery [Video]
25 Aug 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Santa Maria Madre de Deus was a Portuguese ship that disappeared without a trace in 1643, believed to have sunk off the Eastern Cape coast.
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Five Lessons We’ve Learnt From Past Pandemics
18 Aug 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Throughout history, we’ve overcome devastating pandemics, and learned some valuable lessons along the way.
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A Reminder That Gandhi Was A Raging Racist Against SA’s Black Population
13 Aug 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The frail, nobly malnourished old man isn’t quite as saintly as many would have you believe.
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Posing Tourist Snaps Toes Off 200-Year-Old Statue, Doesn’t Tell Anyone, Gets Caught [Video]
05 Aug 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
This should be obvious, but if you’re going to visit a museum, don’t sit on, and break, the 200-year-old art.
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Settle In For A Wild Ride Through American History With John Oliver [Video]
04 Aug 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the US, different states are free to teach their own version of American history. Unsurprisingly, there are some wild inconsistencies.
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That Took A While: They’ve Worked Out Where The Stonehenge Stones Are From
31 Jul 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
After years of studies, scientists believe that they’ve solved the mystery of where Neolithic people sourced the stones used to make Stonehenge.
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Booze Bans And Sailors – Why Coffee Is Called ‘A Cup Of Joe’
15 Jul 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Who was the Joe in ‘a cup of Joe’? Enquiring minds want answers, so we did some digging.
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The Rather Disgusting Reason Why Brides Originally Carried Bouquets
25 Jun 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
So you’ve just dropped a few thousand on a bridal bouquet, but have you ever stopped to think about why you carry one in the first place?
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What The Navy, Scurvy, And Tree Bark Has To Do With Your Gin & Tonic
23 Jun 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The gin and tonic had to come a long way before it was your drink of choice, and the journey wasn’t always pretty.
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Archaeologists Astonished By New Discovery Near Stonehenge
22 Jun 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Archaeologists are describing their new discovery as the “largest prehistoric structure ever found” in Britain.
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A List Of Racist Winston Churchill Quotes
15 Jun 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Churchill’s statue outside the Palace of Westminster in London was defaced last week, which once again drew attention to the leader’s views on race.
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Did The Spanish Flu Really Kill More Than 300 000 South Africans In Just Two Years?
21 May 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Africa Check looked into Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s claims that more than 300 000 South Africans died from the Spanish Flu.
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Historians Want You To Know Some Hard Truths About ‘Braveheart’ And William Wallace
20 May 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
25 years after Mel Gibson yelled “they will never take our freedom”, historians are still upset about the lack of factual accuracy in ‘Braveheart’.
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Diary Of Teen Who Spent WWII Lockdown With The Queen
29 Apr 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The future Queen and her sister Margaret were sent to Windsor during WWII to keep them safe, along with Alathea Fitzalan Howard, who kept a diary.
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How Different Is The Coronavirus To The Spanish Flu That Killed Millions?
12 Mar 2020 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
The Spanish flu was terrifying because it proves that a cousin of the influenza virus has the potential to wipe out millions of people.
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Why South Africa Built, And Then Dismantled, Six Nuclear Weapons
12 Feb 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
South Africa is one of the few countries in the world to create and then denounce nuclear weapons, and it had great deal to do with the transition to democracy.
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Demolition Worker Finds 112-Year-Old Message Hidden In Wall
04 Dec 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
A demolition worker in New Jersey found far more than he bargained for while trying to take down a wall at a university.
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Why Would Amazon Be Selling These Christmas Ornaments Depicting Auschwitz?
02 Dec 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
We honestly have no idea why someone would put pictures of a place where over 1,1 million people lost their lives on a Christmas ornament.
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Is The World Even Ready For A FIFTH Force Of Nature?
25 Nov 2019 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The four forces of nature are gravity, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force, and the strong force, although scientists are now flirting with a fifth.
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Terrifying Archaeology Find Of Babies Wearing Helmets Made From Skulls Of Other Children
22 Nov 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Archaeologists have been left with “many questions”, following a strange discovery in a pair of funerary mounds.
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Shipwreck Hunter Finds Famous WWII Submarine That Was Lost For 75 Years [Video]
13 Nov 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
An underwater explorer has found the wreck of the U.S.S. Grayback, dubbed one of the most successful submarines of World War II.
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Wait, They Found A 15 000-Year-Old Mammoth Trap?
07 Nov 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
How we think about the mammoth has changed considerably over the millennia. Many years ago, it was quite a catch.
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You Know There Was ANOTHER ‘Mona Lisa’ Hanging Above Someone’s Fireplace, Right?
17 Oct 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Caribbean tax havens, a mysterious international consortium, and a famous art detective are all involved in the mystery of the second ‘Mona Lisa’.
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Hidden Secrets In Seven Of The World’s Most Famous Paintings
14 Oct 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Some of the world’s most famous works of art are hiding interesting details that you might not have noticed.
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Very Interesting: How African Countries Got Their Names
08 Oct 2019 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Most countries are named after a directional description, a feature of the land, a tribe name, or a person. In Africa, that’s not always the case.
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Child Genius Writes Novel About A Girl That Vanishes – Then She Vanishes
30 Sep 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Few tales are as strange as that of Barbara Newhall Follett, whose life would go on to imitate the fiction that she first wrote when she was just nine.
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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Titanic
17 Sep 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Forget Jack and Rose, because some of the real-life events that took place on the Titanic are stranger than fiction.
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Can We Talk About The Massive Irony Of The New ‘Woke Monopoly’?
12 Sep 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
While Hasbro celebrated female innovators with its new Monopoly set, they somehow forgot about the person who started it all.
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