Maggot therapy

Gangrene is a nasty way to go. There being lots of nasty ways to go but given much of the…

The assassination of William McKinley

Leon Czolgosz had a surname that was a bit of a mouthful. As a child, it is likely to have…

In an age when vacuous, self-absorbed celebrities attract millions of followers on social media accounts flashing boobs, Botox and brunch…

When King Lobengula, or Prince Lobengula as he was then, was asked by some of his generals why he had…

Isolating what caused the 1929 crash is something that still keeps the academics in generous grants, but what it did…

So bad was the fallout of Boris Yeltsin’s efforts to money up the Soviet economy and introduce capitalist based reforms,…

Without fully knowing what that little Kim Jong-Un gets up to when he rattles around his palace after dark, our…

The Cold War, in addition to sparking the space race, was a thing of a film maker’s dreams. Two global…

How old is the moon? It’s a difficult question, more so given the experts aren’t even too sure themselves. Try…

Frederick Banting liked to paint. Many of his early sketches were on the back of the cardboard used by his…