When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492, he carried with him diseases which all but wiped out the Native Indian population. Their revenge according to history was to send back to Europe the scourge of syphilis, because in 1495 this new disease hit Europe with devastating affect, attacking those who were promiscuous in nature.What is Syphilis and where did it come from? As mentio
Bushfires are nothing new in Australia, but this season’s blazes have taken on a new dimension. Their vast scale is largely down to extreme weather conditions. Last year was the hottest and driest since recordings began in 1910.More than 12 million hectares of land have been ravaged since the outbreak of the Australian bushfires in October 2019, that's an area almost one and a half times the s
In this episode of Declassified we see how ten Russian sleeper agents managed to infiltrate the United States by living normal lives, their whole goal was to disappear into a community and not be recognised for who they really were. It sparked one of the largest counterintelligence efforts in history as the FBI scrambled to neutralize the threat.Spying is something that has been with us throughout
It is the frontline of the worlds most dangerous battle, a battle which involves the entire Earth. As the Amazon Rain Forest faces a crucial tipping point amidst the increase of illegal logging activities, deforestation rates have nearly doubled, there are nearly three football fields worth of forestation being cut down every minute.This being said it is the Brazilian indigenous people who are
Vue.js, pronounced as "view", is an open-source model–view–viewmodel (MVMM) JavaScript framework which was released in 2014 by its creator Evan You. You released his framework with the sole purpose of making life easier for developers who are looking to harness the full power of JavaScript when building user interfaces and single-page applications but need a quick clean solutio
In 2011 Sally Challen, a mother of two from Surrey, United Kingdom, was jailed for life for bludgeoning her husband to death whilst he was sat at the families kitchen table eating lunch. After committing such a gruesome crime Sally proceeded to cover her husband Richards body in a pair of old curtains and placed a note which read "I love you" on top.Nobody at the trial was shocked when the j
This extraordinary documentary tells the harrowing but brutally honest story of Tony and Christine Clark and their two sons Matthew (39) and Michael (42), for the past four decades the two brothers have lived perfectly normal lives but now the two men are like toddlers and unable to look after themselves.In a cruel twist of faith the two brothers are in the clutches of a condition that's regr
Alexander McQueen was the rebel king of British fashion, a designer who reinvented the catwalk and created clothes that silenced his audience, being described as brilliant, offensive, beautiful and outrageous. He was making such a statement, pushing everything to the edge and people either loved his designs or hated them.McQueen was the son of an East London taxi driver who took over one of
It is a game which has been described as intensely contemplative and almost hypnotic, with there being more board configurations than there are atoms in the universe this is the ancient Chinese game of Go, and it has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence as it is simply the most complex game ever devised by man.It was on March 9. 2016, that the worlds of Go and ar