History

The city was founded on a grassy plain, on a site indicated by a patched cow.

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

The Middle Ages were also the time of the Crusades. They were originally intended to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim hands, although political pressures sometimes took them in surprising directions.

Newcomers that arrived in Jamestown in 1610, helped preserve the colony.

The night before the final Roman attack, Eleazar ben Jair, who commanded the defense, encouraged the fighters to commit suicide, to which they agreed.

According to Herodotus’ account, after the battle, the Greeks erected a lion-shaped stone monument to the fallen heroes, as well as three stelae with mournful epigrams dedicated to Leonidas, Megistias (the only civilian participant in the battle), and the other fallen.

They were able to construct merchant ships (large for the time) that sailed on many waters in different parts of the globe.

At the epicenter of the explosion, contamination exceeded 1,000 X-rays per hour (1,000 R/h), or 10,000 millisieverts per hour (mSv/h).

In the fall of 1457, in the village of Savigny, France, a pig and its six piglets were accused of murdering a five-year-old boy.

The relationship between the inhabitants of Jamestown and Powhatans was mixed from the beginning.