Category: Ancient History
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Chocolate: a delicious history
Reading Time: 3 minutes We’ve been consuming chocolate for over 4,000 years. But did you know that the Nazis once plotted to assassinate Winston Churchill using an exploding bar of chocolate? Or that white chocolate was invented by Doctors in Switzerland? Chocolate in Mesoamerica The Ancient…
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A history of rainbows: from the ancients to Issac Newton
Reading Time: 3 minutes What did people think rainbows were, before science? It’s hard to imagine, considering the modern day symbolism of the rainbow, but some ancient societies believed rainbows to be bad omens. Indigenous Australians referred to the rainbow as the ‘Rainbow Serpent’. This ancient…
