Baboon High Noon: a fearsome battle in Somerset East Late one October afternoon in 1905,…
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Game of Thorns One A.C. MacDonald of the Agriculture Department was engaged in attempts to exterminate…
Events: 1822: Pedro I is crowned the Emperor of Brazil. 1834: Slavery is abolished in…
Events: 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species 1963: Jack Ruby shoots and…
The long, dark voyage of the Fram In today’s era of satellite imagery, it’s hard…
Events: 1558: Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England. 1800: The US Congress sits for the…
Terror and rage in the Russian Empire “The awful barbarities,” wrote the editor of Grocott’s…
Events: 1775: The United States Marine Corps is founded. 1942: Germany invades Vichy France. 1964:…
Smallpox in Natal Tucked away at the bottom of the second page of the Grocott’s Mail…
Japan versus Russia and the Beginnings of Globalisation. “There is not one sensible man or…