It is believed that around 1 in 7 people has a neurodivergent condition.
To celebrate International Women’s Day today, here we shine a light on some of history’s most influential Black women who helped to improve racial equality in the United States.
According to research, the word “library” originated in Latin, from the word Libraria, meaning “place storing books” and the Latin liber, meaning “book”.
A mystical black cat with a white chest, Mr Mistoffelees featured in T. S. Eliot’s 1939 poetry book Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.
Literally translated, the word democracy comes from the Greek words ‘demos’, meaning people, and ‘kratos’ meaning power, so democracy can be thought of as ‘power of the people’.
He begrudged the rules at Repton, his private school, and while there the imaginative youngster was restless and longed for adventure.
As a discipline, the study of archaeology is around 150 years old.
Less than 25% of the world’s land surface has escaped substantial impacts of human activity – by 2050, experts estimate this will have fallen to less than 10%.
It is thought that Pythagoras believed that he had already lived four lives, all of which he could remember.
Let’s take a look at two famous polymaths of yesteryear and one of the modern-day…