Moa were flightless birds that were native to New Zealand. The largest species, the giant moa, reached about 12 feet (4 m) in height and weighed about 550 lb. (249 kg). Some of the largest birds ever to inhabit the earth, they were the dominant herbivores in the country’s ecosystem ...
Here are ten more interesting facts about Afrikaans:1. It’s the youngest official language in the worldAlthough it’s rather difficult to determine the age of any language (or what a language itself is, for that matter), Afrikaans is the youngest official one in the world. It was only ...
Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December of 1993 shortly before he was elected president of South Africa and the apartheid ended in 1994; This may be one fact that many people know or can assume about Mandela. The Nobel Prize committee awarded Mandela the prize �for his work...
South Africa is the first only country in Africa to have had a successful nuclear weapons program. However, after the end of Apartheid, South Africa dismantled itsnuclear weapons programwhich it was alleged to have created in order to scare away the African States from liberating their own long...
Slavery officially ended in 1863 in the United States but that didn’t change how white people acted towards black people in both the north and the south, but especially in the south. In that country an unofficial apartheid flourished in the southern states keeping blacks and whites apart and...