In 1846 a pair of Quaker sisters, Hannah and Mary Townsend, came up with an idea. They were abolitionists and actively campaigned against domestic slavery in the United States. They started educating young citizens and produced for this purpose a new way for the 26 letters to be taught by rote – the Anti-Slavery Alphabet.
Before he waged war on the world, Adolf Hitler was an upcoming (and unsuccessful) artist. He was rejected twice by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1907-1908), because of his “unfitness for painting”. These are just some of his paintings he did before becoming the supreme ruler of the Reich.
A group of around 60 people believed to be Roma gypsies have set up camp on a grass island in central London’s prestigious Park Lane. Some of them beg on the streets of the West End. They are in constant battle with council officials who keep moving them on, but insist no returning to the encampment which is littered with soiled duvets and cardboard boxes.
Dig deeper into the conspiracy theories and watch to find out 10 actual facts about the Illuminati.
A series of recordings made by two Italian brothers in the early 1960s suggest that, before Yuri Gagarin successfully blasted off into orbit and returned home, several Soviet astronauts perished, their pleas for help caught on tape. We take a look at whether the Soviet Union really did cover up its early space disasters.
For a company that for the longest time was touted to “not have a product,” Google is doing plenty well, and is poised to bring us all into the new age of connectivity