6,000 years ago the Sahara Desert was tropical, so what happened? As little as 6,000 years ago, the vast Sahara Desert was covered in grassland that received plenty of rainfall, but shifts in the world’s weather patterns abruptly transformed the vegetated region into some of the driest land on Earth.…
Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig [ˈkaːlɪkʲ] ( listen)) or Scots Gaelic, sometimes also referred to simply as Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. A member of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic languages, Scottish Gaelic, like Modern Irish and Manx, developed out of Middle Irish. Scottish Gaelic.…
Around 985, Seljuk converted to Islam. In the 11th century the Seljuks migrated from their ancestral homelands into mainland Persia, in the province of Khurasan, where they encountered the Ghaznavids. The Seljuk Turks. Seljuk, also spelled Seljuq, ruling military family of the Oğuz (Ghuzz) Turkic tribes that invaded southwestern Asia…
After their initial settlement in the western regions of the Balkans, Serbs created their first state, the early medieval Principality of Serbia, that was ruled by the first Serbian dynasty, known in historiography as the Vlastimirović dynasty. By the mid-18th century, Serbo-Slavonic had been mostly replaced with Russo-Slavonic (Russian recension…
How many surfers have died at Jaws? Andrew Adair | April 2, 2021 Despite so many people saying to themselves, ’jesusfuckenchrist there is no way anybody could survive that’ as they watched it all go down, no one died . The iconic theme from director Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” is chilling…
The Shawnee Reservation Mound, also known as the Institute Fairgrounds Mound and the Poorhouse Mound, is a burial mound that was built by the Hopewell tribes that inhabited this area for centuries prior to the arrival of Europeans. In 1825, Congress ratified a treaty with the Cape Girardeau Shawnees ceding…
The Disney Wiki has a collection of images and media related to Sheriff of Nottingham. Unusual for a central character, the Sheriff has no name; he’s always called by his title or nickname. However the historical position goes back to Anglo-Saxon times. The office is sometimes confused with that of…
The Act’s purpose was to promote economic fairness and competitiveness and to regulate interstate commerce. The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first attempt by the United States Congress to address the use of trusts as a tool that enables a limited number of individuals to control certain key industries. –…
From the East the Silk Road passed through Armenia, or rather, through the Artashat city and from there stretched to the harbors of the Black Sea. In the 5th century Dvin came to replace Artashat as the capital of Armenia. The Silk Road started to be used just after the…
They combined the saltpeter and sulfur with charcoal, inventing gunpowder. They initially found humanitarian uses for it, treating skin diseases and killing insects, but it didn’t take long before they figured out that this powerful explosive could have other uses. Although gunpowder along with the compass are touted as two…