There was a lot of talk about Dame Iritana Te Rangi Tāwhiwhirangi at Waitangi this week. She died recently, aged 95, having ...
Lark Lane has a wealth of restaurants and Taj is one of the finest. Best enjoyed after a few beers on the lane, Taj offers a great curry whether you sit in or take away.
Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.
The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...
In 1992, a paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric bird called "Vegavis iaai" in Antarctica and hypothesized that it was an early relative of today's ducks and geese. However, because the ...
I n 1976, the American Viking 1 Orbiter spotted something very peculiar on the surface of Mars. There among the many lumps ...
Little did Montgomery County, Texas know that on June 18, 1866, a young man would be born to Smith and Sylvie Mitchell Barnes in the small outlying community of Danville Ned Eastman Barnes, as he was ...