The famous Mona Lisa painting has no eyebrows. When Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, he included eyebrows, but over time they were eroded due to cleaning, to the point where they are no longer ...
Soldiers are believed to have spoken to one another, sung carols, exchanged food and cigarettes - but the most enduring ...
Earlier this year, Jaco Lochner argued that claims that “whites own most land” in South Africa are unverified. Without a national cadastre, ownership remains un ...
The once iconic main Post Office building in the Durban CBD has over recent years seen an aesthetic decline. Visible evidence ...
1647 English Puritans under Oliver Cromwell, who overthrew Anglican King Charles I ban Christmas celebration. After chopping ...
This 1899 Wolseley 3.5hp Voiturette’s single-cylinder motor first burst into life when Queen Victoria was on the throne and ...
A crisis more than a century ago involved U.S. aims to assert military supremacy, a hard-partying dictator and frictions ...
A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine brings a ...
Russian forces continue to bombard Ukrainian cities and make slow but steady gains on the battlefield, even as Moscow says it is considering the latest US-brokered peace plan. At least three people ...
Russia says Ukraine tried to attack Putin's residence but Kyiv says Moscow is lying Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Ukraine had tried to attack President Vladimir Putin's ...