History

Pocahontas was a nickname given to an Indian girl named Matoaka by her parents in childhood.

According to Herodotus, of the 300 Spartans who fought at Thermopylae, two did not take part in the battle due to violent eye pain.

Homer's poem does not describe the entire war, but only 50 days in its final year, when a breakthrough happened.

Aksum was a remarkably tolerant place for its time, as followers of earlier African religions were not persecuted.

Medieval Europe was powerless against disease. Its origin was attributed to supernatural phenomena.

The origin of the Sumer is the subject of considerable research and speculation.

When the Americans completed the "Manhattan Project" in 1945, the Soviets did not have the infrastructure, schematics, and materials necessary to participate in the nuclear weapons race.

The most famous stele is the so-called Obelisk of Aksum.

Until the end of the 20th century, tobacco was the number-one export product of Virginia.

By the end of Musa's reign, Sankore University had become an institution with a full academic staff and the largest collection of books in Africa since the Library of Alexandria.