* The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.

* When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.

* St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish.

* The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in 1927.

* A South African monkey was once ( Read more... )

so i was speaking with a friend who lives in south africa and works as a sociologist/writer. we were talking about race relations and what the country is like today as seen from different perspectives. he pointed me to this article, which i found interesting. i was aware that many of the whites had already left and gone to europe/uk, nz, oz, usa, ( Read more... )