The invention of the hotel key card
In the 1970s, Norwegian Tor Sornes invented the hotel key card. He wanted to improve security in hotels after he heard the news that one of his favourite singers, Connie Francis, was attacked in her h...
8 Tammi 202510min
Charlie Hebdo attack
On 7 January 2015, 12 people were shot dead at the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris, the capital of France.The two gunmen had targeted Charlie Hebdo because it had published cartoons of the Pr...
7 Tammi 20259min
Marie Kondo
In 2011, Japanese tidying expert Marie Kondo’s first book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up was published. Overnight she went from tidying other people’s homes to being known around the world for ...
6 Tammi 202510min
Creating Alexa
The smart speaker Alexa is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world every day, but did you know its voice was created by two people in Poland back in 2000?Lukasz Osowski and Michal Kasz...
3 Tammi 202510min
Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
German-born physicist Klaus Fuchs played a key role in the development of the first atomic bomb during World War Two.The project, known as the Manhattan Project, was led by scientist J Robert Oppenhei...
2 Tammi 20259min
Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
In December 1918, sports writer and cartoonist Robert Ripley was struggling to find some content for his column in the New York Globe.So he compiled and illustrated some of the quirkiest sports facts ...
1 Tammi 202510min
Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
An earthquake off the coast of Indonesia on 26 December 2004, triggered a tsunami which cost the lives of an estimated 230,000 people around the Indian Ocean. It was one of the largest earthquakes eve...
31 Joulu 202410min
Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
On 26 December 2004, an earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia sparking a tsunami which swept away entire communities around the Indian Ocean. In India, Choodamani and Karibeeran Paramesvaran’s ...
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