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- Electricity is all around us. We plug into it for almost everything we do. Yet we probably don't give much thought to the people who made it possible. While Thomas Edison may be known as the man who invented the light bulb, it can be argued that Nikola Tesla is the one who turned it on. Before the booming tech revolution of Silicon Valley, Tesla was one of the original tech superstars, and we owe much of our modern world today to his incredible brain. Scientists and engineers all over the world are still bringing Tesla's inventions to life today. So how did a man who should have been a billionaire, indelibly inked into history, end up dying penniless and forgotten?
- In 1938, Arthur Abt fled Nazi Germany and eventually settled into a Jewish community in Kansas City. As he built a new life in America, he preserved his German identity by baking. His 80-year-old recipe book holds his secrets into baking and living as an immigrant.
- According to a report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Colombian are the world's earliest risers. The alarm clock at many Colombian households goes off at four or five in the morning. But why do Colombians wake up so early? We find out how culture, religion, and geographic location play a part.
- It's been called one of the 'weirdest', 'perplexing', 'odd', 'unexplainable' Australian cultural habits.
- Over 10,545 miles from the town in Wales that it was named after, Llanelly was once at the heart of Australia's Victoria Goldfields, which had one of the greatest gold outputs in the world. But how did it come to be so very far from home?