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 ...
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WEBA woman buried with a Viking wagon, an iron key, and a silver-handled knife, along with 50 other graves found in Denmark. A team of archaeologists from the Odense Museum has unearthed more than 50 exceptionally well-preserved skeletons in Åsum, east of Odense, Denmark. These remains, accompanied by…. Articles and news on history, archeology ...
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WEBEn la película Titanic, de James Cameron, hay una escena que fue eliminada del montaje final en la que se ve a un miembro de la tripulación, interpretado por el actor irlandés Liam Touhy, quien botella en mano y medio borracho lanza al mar todas las tumbonas que va encontrando por cubierta para que los…. La Brújula Verde - Inicio.
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 …
10 inventos y descubrimientos de la Antigua Grecia que han …
WEBOct 27, 2015 · 8. Reloj con alarma. También los griegos fueron los inventores del reloj con alarma. Pero las primeras alarmas usadas por los griegos nada tenían que ver con las actuales. Ellos utilizaban un mecanismo integrado para señalar la alarma que sonaría como ciertos órganos de agua o como guijarros cayendo sobre tambores.
Electrum, the natural gold and silver alloy used to mint the first ...
WEBMay 20, 2020 · Electrum, we said, is composed of gold and silver; it has a proportion of four parts of the first and one of the second, but there are also traces of other metals such as platinum or, above all, copper. This is because it is not an artificial alloy but a natural one, although it can also be manufactured, in which case the composition ...
The sword embedded in the rock of the precipice of Rocamadour …
WEBOct 15, 2019 · The sword embedded in the rock of the precipice of Rocamadour for 9 centuries. Durandal (or Durandarte) was the famous sword of Roland, the Frankish knight who died at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass on 15 August 788 by attack of the Basques. The accounts of that battle and the subsequent fate of the …
La brújula: qué es y cómo funciona
WEBMay 19, 2005 · Según el artículo correspondiente de la Wikipedia la brújula es un instrumento que sirve para determinar cualquier dirección de la superficie terrestre por medio de una aguja imantada que siempre marca los polos magnéticos Norte-Sur.. Historia de la brújula. La brújula es un invento chino que tiene unos 1800 años de antigüedad. Al principio los adivinos usaban unas piedras ...