Anniedup
Digital Journalist based in South Africa.
Joined on Jun 15, 2007
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Have you ever wondered why Brazilians speak Portuguese and the rest of Latin America speaks Spanish? Was it that Spain was a much more enterprising colonial power during the Age of Exploration?
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A entire room vanished not in 1845, but 1945! How is this possible. A room so magnificent it was once described as the the eighth wonder of the world. A mystery that ignited imaginations and inspired a series of treasure hunts.
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Earlier this year a man decapitated his 4-month-old Husky pup, with a chainsaw. Self-confessed dog-killer Phillip Matthysen was slapped with a suspended fine of R10 000 rand or 12 months in jail after being found guilty by a Delmas court.
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A tragic end to an extraordinary partnership, but thanks to the intervention of The Joint Committee for the Conservation of the Large Blue Butterfly, at least one species survived.
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The Tambalacoque tree is threatened by extinction, possibly because the Dodo became extinct 300 years ago. Thanks to an American ecologist, Stanley Temple, this is a story of "Seeds success".
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