Introduction The history of business is nearly often the history of males in business. Though many businesses have been and are founded every year by women – few women still seem to be able to&hellip
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Famous Fijian Dishes
Introduction The small island of Fiji in the Pacific, sitting very close to the International Date Line, has a rich and varied diet. Thanks to colonial powers and curious visitors of the last few hundred&hellip
Famous Bizarre Fairy Tales
Introduction Everybody knows the biggest stories: Snow White, Hansel & Gretel, Cinderella et al but what about the one about the drunken zombies starting a riot? Or the man who wanted a child so badly,&hellip
Famous Botanical Gardens
Introduction With so much of our green space concreted over, it is no wonder that we seek to find beauty in nature on our doorsteps. Starting around 200-300 years ago, the highest in society sought&hellip
Famous Greek Philosophers
Introduction Greek philosophers form the core of all modern philosophy, religion and sometimes even science. There is no getting away from the impact that those thinking born on the Greek mainland and the several millennia&hellip
Famous Cop Killers
Introduction Murder has been one of the most unforgivable crimes throughout human history and in recent years,the crime has elevated to a higher level when certain people or groups are killed ‘ specifically law enforcement&hellip
Famous Boycotts in America
Introduction The word boycott actually comes from a person. Charles Boycott evicted those who couldn’t pay rent on the land he owned. The result was that all of his workers downed tools, delivery people refused&hellip
Famous Examples of Civil Disobedience
Civil disobedience and peaceful protest has been the mainstay of ordinary people protesting against governments for many centuries. It arguably began in England with the Peasant’s Revolt in 1381 when Wat Tyler along with a&hellip
Famous Tragic Celebrity Murder-Suicides
Every year there is the shocking celebrity death to send shockwaves through the global media. Every once in a while there is a tragic double murder-suicide when one party kills one person and then themselves.&hellip
Famous Unlikely Couples
‘Is she really going out with him? Because if my eyes don’t deceive me there’s something going wrong around here’ go the words to a famous song and in the world of celebrity culture, there&hellip
Famous World Records That Took Forever to Break
There are many records in the Guinness Book. Some of them came as a surprise to the holders because they were not planned and had an unnaturally long period of time in which to make&hellip
Famous Unusual Prisons
Prisons are places to punish the wrongdoers in society and for the last few hundred years they have followed a conventional design with conventional methods of punishment. Some have attempted to reform design and concept&hellip
Famous Worst Abuses of Power in History
Abuse of power is often seen as a result of absolute power. Tyrants throughout history have been responsible for some of the most shocking acts of cruelty towards their own people and to those they&hellip
Famous Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Christmas
‘Nephew!’ returned the uncle, sternly, ‘keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.’ So goes the line in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Indeed, all over the world we do&hellip
Famous Ideas Stolen by Big Business
Human ingenuity is the driver of invention ‘ through our superior intelligence we have discovered how to create fire, and invented the wheel, the combustion engine and mass transit. Most inventions are the result of&hellip
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