Luz Long, the German athlete who befriended Jesse Owens and …
WEBMay 13, 2020 · The next day the final was held – immortalised by Leni Riefenstahl’s camera in her Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations), the first part of her famous Olympia film – and although Long managed to jump 7.87, Owens smashed that mark with 8.06, breaking the Olympic record and climbing to the top of the podium; the bronze went to Japan’s Naoto Tajima (who would later win in the triple jump ...
Devshirme, the recruitment of Christian children by the Ottoman …
WEBAug 18, 2020 · The first, called Kapıkulu Süvari (Cavalry of the Servants of the Sublime Gate), was an elite troop structured into six divisions and made up of the sipahi (a word derived from the Persian sepâhi), equivalent to the European knights.In other words, they were noble holders of a swindle (fiefdom) which, in a conceptual medieval survival, had been granted to them by the sultan in exchange for ...
Eduard Bloch, the Jewish doctor whom Hitler helped to leave …
WEBApr 3, 2020 · Its author, as can be deduced, was one of the Führer’s doctors, but what is really curious is that he was Jewish and the Führer himself helped him to leave Germany. Eduard Bloch was born on 30 January 1872 in the Bohemian town of Frauenberg, now called Hluboká nad Vltavou and belonging to the Czech Republic but then to …
The tiny Croatian island that has more than 23 kilometers of walls …
WEBSep 6, 2019 · Without reaching the Greek profusion, Croatia has 79 large islands, more than 500 smaller islets and another 642 tiny rocks covering an area of about 3,300 square kilometers. One such small island is Baljenac (or Bavljenac), located off the Dalmatian coast in the south of the country and forming
Brattahlíð, Erik the Red’s farm in Greenland - LBV Magazine English ...
WEBMar 31, 2019 · Brattahlíð, Erik the Red’s farm in Greenland. When vikings arrived in Greenland in 985 they found a land almost completely covered by snow and ice. Except for a few clearings of vegetation, mainly at the southern end, where they built their settlements. One of these was the Qinngua Valley, where the …
Ibn Wahshiyya, the Nabataean who could have translated Egyptian ...
WEBMay 12, 2019 · We are referring to the Arab scholar Ibn Wahshiyya. In mid-September 1822, Jean-François Champollion managed to finish off the work that had haunted him for fifteen years: deciphering the mysterious hieroglyphic writing of Pharaonic Egypt. Champollion was a French professor at the University of Grenoble, where he …
Rivers and seas made of mercury inside the tomb of China’s first ...
WEBJan 10, 2020 · The famous terracotta warriors are only a part of the gigantic mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of unified China, who reigned between 221 and 210 BC. In fact, the complex, located 30 kilometers east of Xian in the northwest of the country, houses more than 400 tombs covering the impressive area of 60 square kilometers.
La Brújula Verde – Magazine Cultural Independiente
WEBArqueólogos han descubierto en Marruecos una antigua y hasta ahora desconocida civilización agrícola datada entre 3400 y 2900 a.C., un período poco comprendido de la prehistoria del noroeste de África. Este es el complejo agrícola más antiguo y grande encontrado en África fuera del Nilo. El estudio, publicado en la revista Antiquity ...
Expedition Discovers More than 100 Astonishing New Species in …
WEBFeb 25, 2024 · An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Javier Sellanes of Chile’s Universidad Católica del Norte, may have discovered over 100 new species living on the undersea mountains off the coast of Chile. The recent expedition by the Schmidt Ocean Institute allowed researchers to identify several potentially new species, including deep sea ...
El origen y significado de "¡Banzai!", el grito de los japoneses ...
WEBOct 28, 2020 · Por supuesto, hubo más cargas Banzai, a pesar de que se habían revelado como inútiles ante adversarios bien adiestrados y con armas automáticas.Sin embargo, el gobierno japonés insistió con ellas porque estaba dispuesto a todo con tal de evitar una invasión de su territorio; así lo expresó a finales de 1944 con la promulgación del ichioku gyokusai, cuyo significado es cien millones ...