Long before Charles Darwin came up with his theory of natural selection,(and in doing so providing the English language with numerous adjectives for his name), Frenchman and naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744 – 1829) (Figure 1) attached his own name to the concept of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. ‘Lamarckian’ refers to this doctrine which is also known as “soft hereditary”, but it was merely an incidental feature of Lamarck’s philosophy on nature.
Machemma, also known as Machemma’s Kop, refers to the ruins of an archaeological Iron Age site that is situated on the farm Solvent about 20 kilometres northwest of the Waterpoort railway station, which is due north of the Soutpansberg in Limpopo, and 27 kilometres west of Wyllie’s Poort, an N1 road pass in the Soutpansberg. The settlement on top of the kopje (hill) was the chief’s stronghold, while the ordinary members of the tribe lived in the valleys to the north and south.
Die trekboere was half-nomadiese boere wat met hul vee agter weiding en water aangetrek het en sodoende geleidelik dieper die binneland inbeweeg het wat gedurende die 1700’s en 1800’s tot die uitbreiding van die Kaapkolonie se grense gelei het. Daar was verskillende trekboergroepe waarvan een as die Doppers bekend gestaan het.
On Tuesday, 8 April 2014, the British-based newspaper, The Guardian, published the story of a fisherman who retrieved an old beer bottle from the Baltic Sea off the northern German city of Kiel. Sealed inside the bottle was a postcard with a handwritten message.
Groot sprinkaanswerms het vroeër jare baie probleme veroorsaak en hongersnood as gevolg daarvan het mens en dier menigmaal in die gesig gestaar. Die hedendaagse metodes en gifstowwe om sprinkaanplae te bestry, was nog nie beskikbaar nie en gevolglik is mense destyds telkemale herinner aan die agtste plaag wat Egipte getref het.