“Remember, you are white, a man of the superior race,” this was one of the rules Lieutenant Grigorii Chertkov espoused while deployed in Africa in the service of the Russian Empire in 1897. He was part of a delegation sent by Russian Emperor Nicholas II to Ethiopia to establish a formal Russian diplomatic mission with the aim of bringing the African country into the Russian imperial fold.
In the eyes of the African people who saw the Russian convoy make its way from a port in Djibouti to Addis Ababa, the Russians were probably hardly distinguishable from any other European colonial troops they had seen. Read More...
YOU may have heard the term 'blue balls' bandied around - especially between teenage boys.
But one doctor has said that the phenomenon is real and isn't just an excuse men use to have sex.
The term is usually used to describe a sexual situation which doesn't result in an orgasm.
Some men often find that the skin that covers their ball sack, turns a slightly blueish colour - which is said to happen if they have not 'relieved' themselves for a long time. Read More...
SPECULATIVE SCIENCEThe shortest day is usually 21 December, but the earliest sunset is 12 December, and the latest sunrise is 31 December. Why are the earliest sunset and latest sunrise so far apart? Richard Miller, Addlestone, UK
The reason is that a solar day i.e. the time it takes for the sun to return to the meridian you happen to be on is typically not quite 24 hours. Read More...