Category: English

During this week, Nepal has celebrated democracy day. A day of great importance for some in the country but also a day of sadness for others as they consider the defeat they suffered so many years ago. No matter if…

This month is the month February in the western calendar, and it is a special month. It is special because it is the shortest month with normally only 28 days but this year 2024 is a leap year so it…

On the 4th of February 2024 the social media giant Facebook celebrated its 20th anniversary. Facebook has spread across the world, becoming not only an incredibly valuable company but also one of the most important institutions of the early 21st…

For more than six hundred years the Hapsburgs exercised political power over Europe. When Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria died in 1916 an era of Hapsburgs came to an end. He had ruled for 68 years, he became Emperor of…

Many countries have their own famous authors from the past to modern-day era. The English speaking world has many notable writers from the American Mark Twain and his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the British play master Shakespeare…

From the 1930’s America had been trying to ban segregated schools across the country. The story is told about a town in New Orleans in the southeastern region of the USA in the 1950’s, when a federal judge ordered that…

Over 40 years ago, on the 30th of March 1981, the President of the United States Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. He was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at…

Over 50 years ago the Apollo 13 mission to land on the moon was launched from Kennedy Space Centre. Over the years from the commencement of space exploration, 12 Americans have actually walked on the moon and another 12 have…

In 1988, four friends climbed Mount Lyell, the highest peak in the Yosemite National Park. Their base camp was less than 2000 feet from the peak, but the climb to the top and back was to take the better part…

Is any member of your family afraid of getting stung? I remember many years ago going on a picnic with my uncle’s family. We had driven to a very beautiful spot to go for a walk and then to have…