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Left: A purported Chinese map from the 15th century showing parts of North and South America. (Public domain) Right: Zheng He, a Chinese explorer. (Alex Santosa/CC BY-SA) The Chinese may have beaten the famous voyage of Columbus by 70 years By April …
Santa Fe, NM – State Auditor Wayne Johnson is warning state and local agencies today that a scam artist could target their finance employees with fraudulent invoices for significant amounts of money. In the past, some New Mexico entities have fallen victim to such …
How Spanish, not English, was nearly the world’s language John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History, Yale University Want to know the reason much of North America speaks English and not Spanish? It all boils down to a single day in the English Channel …
The REAL Dividing Line (in England) (https://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/england2410_468x8161.jpg) In Great Britain as in the US, two cultural sub-nations identify themselves (and the other) as North and South. The US’s North and South are quite clearly delineated, by the states’ affiliations during the Civil War …
The Tacoma Bridge collapse of 1940 in Washington, USA was a calamity of the world’s third longest suspension bridge back then and had a crucial impact on engineering. It caused the governing of the modeling of all the long-span bridges in the future. …
++++++++++ Living Root Bridge Cherrapunji India In the Northeastern state of Meghalaya, India, there is an indigenous ethnic group of people known as the Khasis who have a very unique skill. They train the aerial roots of the Ficus elastica or the rubber fig …
Wendish in Japan You may wonder how I came to search for traces of Wendish as far afield as Japan. It happened quite accidentally. I became curious about whether there was a linguistic connection between ancient Japanese and Wendish in the mid-1980s, when …
NEW MEXICO WEIRD Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Range New Mexico is 258 years OLDER than “Old” México New Mexico received its name long before the present-day nation of México won independence from Spain and adopted that name in 1821. Spanish …
++++++++++ Spaniard raised by wolves disappointed with human life Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, who lived among animals for 12 years, finds it hard just to get through the winter Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, outside his house. ÓSCAR CORRAL Silvia R. Pontevedra Ourense 2018 Mar 29 – …
Squirrel With Injured Legs Gets Ingenious Prosthetic With Wheels Alf is the little squirrel who can wheel himself around now. David Grossman – 2018 Apr 09 This February, Karamel the squirrel was caught in a trap set for wild animals in Turkey’s southeastern …
