KEY RINGS

Cattle were first domesticated around 6,500 BC. Early cattle served a triple-purpose, providing meat, milk and labour. Dairy cattle are now specialized animals, focused primarily on producing milk. This milk is made into various products, including...

The word 'Lepidoptera' translates as 'scaled wings' in Latin. That is because butterflies and moths have wings covered in tiny scales that provide their wings with patterns and colours that characterize these insects. All butterflies are diurnal (day...

World War I was the first time that aircraft were used on a large scale. Aeroplanes were just coming into military use at the outset of the war. These early planes we biplanes which were fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other...

This axe is based on the type used by executioners who would behead their victims, who would lay their head on a wooden block. This was a quick, honorable death, unlike hanging, and was reserved for members of the nobility - usually for treason, which...

In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into space. In 1961 the Soviets also launched the first manned spacecraft, Vostok 1, and Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth. In 1961, American President John...

Angels are celestial beings who act as intermediaries between Heaven and Earth, or a guardian spirits or a guiding influence. They cloak us in their wings for protection and guide us through life. Bringing joy where there is pain, hope where there is...

Ammonites are an extinct group of marine invertebrate animals. They lived in the seas between 240 - 65 million years ago, when they became extinct along with the dinosaurs. Ammonites belong to a group of predators known as cephalopods, which includes...