Marie Curie’s Background An extraordinary scientific legacy belies Marie Curie’s very humble start in life: she was born Maria Sklodowska in Poland in 1867, the youngest daughter in a poor family of five children. Driven by a thirst for learning and...
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and it’s often said that the greetings card company Hallmark invented the celebration in a ploy to sell cards. But is this really true? And if not, why do we celebrate romance on the 14th of February and who was Saint Valentine?...
‘Truth is stranger than fiction. It has to be! Fiction has to be possible, and truth doesn’t!’, declared Mark Twain. While it’s hard to imagine that reality could be wilder than works of fiction, we might find ourselves surprised if we dive into the...
February might be the time of the year we celebrate romance, but it also happens to be the month that many of your favourite writers entered the world. To celebrate, let’s look at some February babies who have left an indelible mark on the world of literature. Charles...
Since the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter series, in 1997, readers across the world have been gripped by the daring exploits of Harry and his trusty friends Hermione and Ron as they battle ‘He who must not be...
Freethinkers Day has just passed, being celebrated on 29 January each year, and also known as Thomas Paine Day, in memory of the courageous freethinker born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk. But what exactly is Freethinking? In a world where we are exposed to a myriad...
