365 Tours

01/05/2024

BIGGEST BAT COLONY: USA- During May these Mexican free tailed bats, over 10 million gather to feed on tasty Texan insects and raise their young in the area’s many caves

01/03/2024

ON THIS DAY 1-Mar

1872: Yellowstone becomes the world’s 1st National Park

29/02/2024

BLACK SUN: Denmark- Just before sunset every day in MARCH, thousands of birds take a flight. While the sheer numbers are impressive enough, the incredible formations created as they wheel back and forth are worthy of a sundance award.

05/02/2024

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05/02/2024

DID YOU KNOW? On 5-February, 1924

The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signals or the “BBC Pips”

05/02/2024

ON THIS DAY

1936: “Modern Times”, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin released

01/02/2024

SANDHILL CRANES: USA- During February, over half a million of these beauties gather along the Platte River. Emaciated when they arrive from Mexico and the Southern United States. They fatten up to migrate on to Sub Arctic and Arctic nestling grounds.

16/08/2023

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Rain and more Rain. Some of the wettest places in the world. MAWSYNRAM: India - The state of Meghalaya, reportedly is the rainiest place o...

05/07/2023

02/01/2023

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Holocaust: One of the most terrible tragedies of human history. Let’s start 2023 with a tribute to these unsung heroes who risked their live...

25/12/2022

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A little information about this great man’s work BAPTISM OF CHRIST: Leonardo’ first painting was completed while he was an apprentice in Ver...

02/12/2022

ON THIS DAY 2-Dec

1802: Britain sells Suriname to the Netherlands
1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned the Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII
1901: King C Gillette begins selling safety Razor Blades
1927: 1st Model A Ford Sold: US$ 385

01/12/2022

ON THIS DAY- 1-December

1887: Sherlock Holmes first appears in print in ‘Study in Scarlet’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
1913: Ford Motor Company institutes world’s first assembly line for the Model T Ford
1929: Game of Bingo invented by American toy salesman Edwin S Lowe
1953: Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Pl***oy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazine’s 1st centrefold
1959: The 1st color photograph of Earth received from Outer Space

23/11/2022

ON THIS DAY- 23-Nov

1863: Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1909: Wright brothers form million dollar corporation to manufacture airplanes
1936: First issue of LIFE magazine created by Henry R Luce published

22/11/2022

ON THIS DAY: 22-Nov

1497: Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India.
1963: US President John F Kennedy assassinated.
1972: US ends 22 year travel ban to China

20/11/2022

Some airports named after famous people

16/11/2022

ON THIS DAY: 16-Nov

1920: Australia’s Qantas Airways founded in Winton, Queensland as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited
1974: ABBA begin their first tour of Europe-their first tour outside of Sweden
1993: Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum

15/11/2022

ON THIS DAY: 15-Nov

1835: Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti on board HMS Beagle, the location where he would formulate his ideas later written in The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
1837: Isaac Pitman introduces his shorthand system of writing
1904: King C Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade
1932: Walt Disney Art School created
1954: 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins

14/11/2022

ON THIS DAY-14 Nov

1856: American Gail Borden is issued a patent for technology related to his invention of condensed milk.
1883: “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson is first published as a book by Cassell & Co
1889: New York World reporter Nellie Bly begins her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg by travelling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeds, finishing the trip in 72 days.
1922: BBC begins daily radio broadcasts from the 2LO transmitter at Marconi house.
1994: 1st public trains run through the Channel Tunnel Linking England and France under the English Channel

27/10/2022

ON THIS DAY

1938: DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called “NYLON”
1904: First section of New York subway- Lower Manhattan to Broadway Harlem, opened by Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), fare one nickel

25/10/2022

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Beauty can be found in the strangest of places. These geographical cracks are part of the earth’s natural wonders Yarlung Zangpo Grand Canyo...

17/10/2022

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Some of the world’s Straits-those waterways that connect two larger bodies while separating two land masses. Bab-el-Mandam: means ‘gates of...