Edmund Hillary and the Three Poles Challenge
We all know of Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand as one of the first two to climb the world's...
Britain
From ‘qutun’ to cotton: The journey
Cotton gets its name from the Arabic word 'qutun', which means fine textile or fabric. Archaeologists have found samples of...
A kind of strawberry that tastes like pineapple
The pineberry is a mutant form of strawberry, which has white flesh with red seeds. It was discovered by Dutch...
Postage stamp without country name
The first country to issue postage stamps was Great Britain. It issued the first postage stamp on 1 May 1840....
