A former classmate of diary writer Anne Frank who was murdered by the Nazis has laid one of the first stones in the new Namur Holocaust Memorial in Amsterdam. Jacqueline van Maarsen, 91, laid the brick in an emotional ceremony at Weesperstraat, Amsterdam, on Wednesday, 23rd September. Mrs van Maarsen…
An 18th-century fortified tower has been discovered after it was forgotten under a thick covering of ivy that had completely covered it for years. The unusual discovery took place during pruning and landscaping works in Blanco Encalada in the commune of Talcahuano in the Biobio Region of central Chile. Municipal…
Israeli archaeologists have found evidence that early humans wore shell necklaces painted with ochre as far back as 120,000 years ago. The discovery, which included several examples of ancient shell jewellery as well as dozens of human skeletons from the Mediterranean Paleolithic period, was made at Qafzeh Cave in northern…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiYk6k8Rq4U&feature=youtu.be Newsflash/Shedd Aquarium This is the moment two cute penguins come face-to-face with huge dinosaur skeletons including a terrifying Tyrannosaurus after being given a day out at a Chicago museum during the COVID-19 lockdown. Izzy and Darwin, two penguins at the Shedd Aquarium in the US city of Chicago, visited…
CEN/@GoadGatsby This is the moment a statue of US confederate general Stonewall Jackson is removed from its heavily-daubed monument as hundreds of activists whoop and applaud. Hundreds reportedly flocked to the intersection at Monument Avenue and Arthur Ashe Boulevard in the city of Richmond in the US state of Virginia…
