South Africa have beaten New Zealand to take the 2023 Rugby World Cup for a record fourth time. With the 12-11 win over the All Blacks, South Africa have successfully defended their 2019 title and have become the most successful country in rugby history. The final at the Stade de France in Paris was a […]
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Modern Turkey is celebrating its 100th anniversary as a republic. It was founded out of the remains of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. On October 29, 1923, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk declared Turkey a republic and became the new country’s first president. Atatürk was a nationalist leader who separated religion from public life. He
Camfed (Campaign for Female Education)is a non-profit organization aimed at helping girls get an education in sub-Saharan Africa. It was founded by Ann Cotton, a British businesswoman, in 1993. Camfed operates in five African countries. The organization concentrates its work on rural areas with widespread poverty. Many children, especially girls, cannot go to school because
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There are concerns that North Korea is experiencing a food crisis among its population. There have been deaths due to starvation and the lack of food. Experts say the food shortage may be a chronic mismanagement by North Korea’s government. Farming equipment cannot be repaired because there are not enough spare parts. There is a not
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Bobi, the world’s oldest dog, has died at the age of 31. Normally dogs can live up to 15 years, but Bobi lived twice as long. In February 2023, the Guiness Book of Records stated that Bobi was the longest living dog in recorded history. Before that, an Australian cattle dog had lived for 29
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On April 3, 1973 Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola made the first cell phone in Manhattan. He called one of his rivals, an engineer at AT & T. Both companies were working on the development of a phone that could not only be used in a car and but which people could actually carry
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Archaeologists have discovered a nine meter long hidden tunnel inside the Great Pyramid of Giza near Cairo. The two meter wide tunnel was found above the main entrance of the pyramid. The discovery was made by a team of the Scan Pyramids project, experts who have been scanning the pyramid with high-tech instruments to study
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According to a new survey, Japan has discovered that it has 7,000 additional islands that nobody knew about. Since the last of the mapping of the country in the late 1980s Japan has been known to have 6,800 islands. A new digital mapping now shows that there are over 14,000 islands that belong to the
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