The wine industry is most certainly a global business, although the names of popular grapes (and wines) differ from region to region.
Historical evidence from a 1676 English play suggests that Britons were drinking champagne long before the French.
Dina Sanichar, India’s “wolf boy” who was found in the jungle in 1867, is believed to have inspired Rudyard Kipling’s character, Mowgli.
For the first time in history, people other than royals or courtiers can sleep on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles.
If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to be on the Titanic, you may be able to experience it with a replica that is being built for a theme park.
Researchers are looking into a letter, purportedly written by a 12-year-old girl and thrown from the Titanic hours before it sank, to see if it’s authentic.
The figure, carved into a hill in the English countryside, has recently undergone scientific testing, shedding light on its origins.
In 1979, on a mountainside near Resolven, in the south of Wales, the skeletal remains of a man were found. In his possession were a number of items with a South African connection.
50 years ago, five high school students in California created a codename for their cannabis-smoking exploits. Now it’s a day celebrated around the world.
Googling your own name is one thing, but you know you’ve left a mark when the daily Google Doodle is dedicated to your achievements.
Actress Gay Gibson boarded the cruise liner ‘Durban Castle’ in South Africa in October of 1947, not knowing that she would never reach her destination.
If you’d like to get your hands on an antique vampire hunting kit, there’s one up for sale in South Africa.
Over the years, we’ve come to accept that St. Patrick banished snakes from Ireland, but that’s not the only falsehood in the history of a day celebrated around the world.
Myth and folklore are passed on from one generation to the next, but when an entire island is confirming having seen the supernatural it goes beyond fireside stories.
A few of the words or terms that would usually be followed by “as the kids are saying” actually date back a long, long way.
It has been almost a year since thieves broke into the Oxford Picture Gallery, making off with three paintings, and never to be seen again.
Dennis and Kem Parada own a treasure-hunting company called Finders Keepers, and they’re adamant the FBI is screwing them over.
The mystery of the missing ‘Kruger Millions’ has been, to some degree, solved, and the gold wasn’t where treasure hunters thought it was.
In 2008, Jennifer Skupin found two boxes of slides at a flea market. 13 years later, she’s finally solved the mystery of where they came from.
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s artwork, ‘The Scream’, is known the world over, although its fame isn’t without a degree of controversy.
The toyi-toyi is a huge part of South African culture, but it didn’t originate here, and it wasn’t always used for protest action.
Archaeologists brewed a beer from ancient yeast, and let people taste it, saying that “as long as no one died from it” it would be a success.
A trio of codebreakers has cracked a cipher sent to the San Francisco Bay Area Press, by the Zodiac Killer, in 1969.
He was an interesting cat, old Alfred Nobel – the Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who invented dynamite and other more powerful explosives and who also founded the Nobel Prizes. But why did he do it?
Archaeologists have uncovered a massive collection of rock paintings produced towards the end of the Ice Age by some of the earliest people to live in western Amazonia.
Unlike in many other fields, scientific fraud is almost certain to get found out in the long run. Over the past 50 years, some whoppers have been exposed.
The 2000 film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, has become a cult classic over the years. Turns out there are some hard to ignore parallels to a real island community.
Residents of Palencia, Spain, were horrified after a statue on a building lining the town’s main street was left severely disfigured by a mysterious restorer.
Numerous theories have done the rounds on why Vincent Van Gogh took a knife to his ear, with the most recent pointing to the bottle.
Frank Prentice was in his early twenties when he signed up to work on the Titanic. The story of how he survived the ship’s sinking is well worth a watch.