In March 1974, a gaunt, uniformed figure walked out of the jungle on Lubang Island in the Philippines and handed over his sword, ending a war that had, for him, never actually stopped. Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese army lieutenant who had been sent to Lubang late in the Second World War with orders never […]
In the autumn of 1726, an extraordinary claim gripped Britain and left even some of the country’s most respected physicians baffled. A poor woman from Surrey named Mary Toft insisted she had given birth not to a baby, but to rabbits. The bizarre story quickly spread beyond her village, attracting surgeons, scientists and even the […]
For most of the twentieth century, the story of how humans arrived in North America felt settled. They came from Siberia, crossed a land bridge called Beringia, moved south as the ice sheets retreated, and by around 13,000 years ago had given rise to the Clovis culture, the earliest widely accepted evidence of human presence […]
MV Hondius visited world’s remotest island Tristan de Cunha and one passenger, a British national, is believed to be infected. Amid worldwide scare over Hanta virus, it has now emerged that a passenger from the infected MV Hondius visited a school on the world’s remotest island, Tristan da Cunha, colloquially known as Tristan. It is […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were the subject of a new book by royal author Tom Bower, according to the first part of its serialisation published by The Times. A lengthy excerpt of Betrayal: Power, Deceit and the Fight for the Future of the Royal Family detailed claims about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s […]
Amid the unceremonious exit of Kristi Noem from the Department of Homeland Security over several issues including her alleged relationship with Corey Lewandowski, New York Post reported explosive things that Lewandowski said about his invincibility. The Post reported that he used to brag that he could do whatever he wanted as President Trump would always […]
Director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has claimed that Russian officials privately anticipated a Hillary Clinton victory was “inevitable” in the 2016 US presidential election, based on her assessment of recently released documents by her office.Speaking on Miranda Devine’s “Pod Force One” podcast, Gabbard has said that Russia had a strategy of undermining public trust […]
