Who gave the Amazon river its name and why?
Why is the name of the Amazon River Amazon and who gave this name to that river and for what reason? Here is the description:
Why is the name of the Amazon River Amazon and who gave this name to that river and for what reason? Here is the description:
Bussa had led the largest slave revolt in 1816, known as the Bussa revolt. Bussa was born in West Africa and is said to be Igbo or Akan. He was captured, sold to the British, and then brought to Barbados towards the end of the 16th century.
Why did Lady Godiva, one of the most legendary women of the 11th century with her courage and determination, wander around the city naked?
Bellerophon or Bellerophontes, with the help and ability of Athena, tamed the flying horse Pegasus and killed the monster called Chimera.
Would you like to get to know the King of Thailand, who appointed him "official lover" months after his marriage, and who left his country hit by the pandemic and locked himself in an ultra-luxury hotel in Germany with his harem?
A warrior woman who led a slave revolt while she was 8 months pregnant in Guadeloupe in 1802. Her last words before her execution: "Live free or die!".
Real Men in Black were visiting people who said they had seen an alien or UFO in an "unfriendly" way. But is this fiction or really? Who is the first person to claim that they really exist?
Do you know that some of the characters in the 1997 movie of Titanic were taken from real Titanic passengers?
In the Janissary Corps, which was a military organization in the Ottoman Empire, soldiers were being trained starting from the small one. The meaning of the Ottoman word "janissary" is "new soldier".
Jack the Ripper is a serial killer operating in the London slum Whitechapel in 1888. It has been confirmed that five of the victims, all prostitutes, were killed by the same person or persons. However, there are about 20 murders attributed to Jack the Ripper.