The most extreme climates and places on earth One of the best things about our planet is how varied it is, with places too hot or cold to survive and isolated towns that receive 10 times the amount of rainfall that England does. With the recent changes in the climate,...
Will humans ever go extinct? Planet Earth is owned by the human race, with none of the millions of other species being able to even come close to our level of intelligence and creativity. With such dominance over our planet and the ability to create advanced...
The chances of surviving as a prisoner in ww2 During the second world war, millions of combatants were taken as prisoners by their enemies and forced to endure horrible things to survive. Over 3 million German prisoners of war were captured by the Russians alone, and...
How did the Neanderthals survive? There was a very long period in human history when people lived so primitively that they didn’t even have pottery, anything made of metal was a distant dream and the most advanced piece of technology on the planet consisted of a...
What was life like for poor Victorians? The Victorian era ran from 1837 until 1901, which in comparison to something like the medieval period makes it very recent, so most people would assume things for the average person would be much better. This most...
The 3 most disastrous expeditions of all time In the earlier years of exploration, there was a race between the superpowers of the world to be the first to find new lands and trade routes. Dozens of countries sent ships to find routes through the Northwest Passage, or...
