It provides the dates and details and tells the stories of the remarkable people behind the great milestones and of those who carried on their ground-breaking enterprises. The title covers technical inventions and advances, human endeavours, sporting greats, political milestones, cultural landmarks, leisure and pleasure, medical achievements, and food and drink. Each story will delight, many will amaze. Subject range from the genuinely important (Christiaan Barnard's pioneering heart transplant) through the admirable (Van ...
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It provides the dates and details and tells the stories of the remarkable people behind the great milestones and of those who carried on their ground-breaking enterprises. The title covers technical inventions and advances, human endeavours, sporting greats, political milestones, cultural landmarks, leisure and pleasure, medical achievements, and food and drink. Each story will delight, many will amaze. Subject range from the genuinely important (Christiaan Barnard's pioneering heart transplant) through the admirable (Van Ryneveld and Brand's record-setting 1920 trans-Africa flight) to the trivia beloved of quiz shows and dinner parties. Did you know, for example, that Cape Town's beach-loving women were allowed to wear bikinis for the first time only in 1965? Before then laws forced (or tried to force) them to cover up from knee to shoulder.
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