Only 400,000 Africans were sent to the British colonies in North America. After 1400, when the Portuguese turned to West Africa to enslave its people for its sugar plantations in the Azores Islands, they found slavery well entrenched. Are there blacks in Azores? Among the settlers that, from 1432 onwards,…
woolly rhinoceros, (genus Coelodonta), either of two extinct species of rhinoceros found in fossil deposits of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs (5.3 million to 11,700 years ago) in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. Where do rhinos live? There are five species of rhino found in the world – two in…
Based on the Jäger rifle, these long rifles, known as “Pennsylvania Rifles”, were used by snipers and light infantry throughout the Revolutionary War. The grooved barrel increased the range and accuracy by spinning a snugly fitted ball, giving an accurate range of 300 yards compared to 100 yards for smoothbore…
The Detroit riots of 1968 may be considered a continuation of the riot of 1967. In addition the Dr. King’s assassination in 1968, the issues of civil rights, employment discrimination, poverty, racial profiling and police brutality lay at the center of both riots. Riots in Detroit, Michigan, have occurred since…
Traveling on medieval roads meant traveling on surfaces as varied as stone, gravel, grass, and dirt. There have been roads across Britain for as long as people and animals have traversed the landscape. Farther away from towns, roads might be nothing but a semi-trampled natural path, with boundaries of owned…
While the first untethered human flight occurred in the late 1700s, ideas and designs for man-carrying flight contraptions can be traced to as far back as 428 BC. Let’s take a quick look at the past achievements that have led to the advanced aviation technologies of today. The advances in…
Much of the rock art sites are found together with evidence of prehistoric stone tools, suggesting that the art could predate the widely presumed pastoralist and domestication events that occurred 5000– 4000 years ago. Rock paintings and engravings, testimony to a once ubiquitous hunter-gatherer presence, are found from coast to…
Most of the slave plantations established by the Loyalists in the Bahamas were on the “Cotton Islands”—Cat Island, the Exumas, Long Island, Crooked Island, San Salvador, and Rum Cay. Were there slaves in the Bahamas? During the 18th century slave trade, many Africans were brought to the Bahamas as slaves…
Sabre-toothed cats existed from the Eocene through the Pleistocene Epoch (56 million to 11,700 years ago). According to the fossil record, the Nimravidae were extant from about 37 million to 7 million years ago. The sabre-tooth tiger may have been capable of slaying mammoths and rhinos, but it only had…
By the 1880s, almost every major city in the country had a police force. This happened in Chicago during the early 1880s, when the police pulled back from breaking strikes, hired immigrant officers and tried to re-establish some credibility among the working class after their role in brutally crushing the…