- Cortes sailed during the peak of the tropical dry season, benefitting from predominantly consistent easterly trade winds.
- These steady winds provided excellent sailing conditions, allowing his ships to make rapid progress.
- By carefully timing their departure, Cortes and his crew were able to take full advantage of the favorable weather patterns and quickly cross the Atlantic Ocean.
Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance Jandamarra was the leader of a revolt against the Australian police in the 1890s. During this time, pastoralists aimed to colonize the land of Bunuba. They are Aborigines from the Kimberley region. In 1894, Jandamarra went into ambush for some European cattle
Australian archaeologists have found some of the most detailed examples of rare and small-scale rock art, virtually miniature, made using the stencil technique or stencil in a rock shelter traditionally used by the Marra people, Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. The research, published i
If we were to ask what the largest prisoner escape of World War II was, surely we would all automatically think of the two from Stalag Luft III. The one that was made into a movie in The Great Escape and the one known as The Wooden Horse. However, seventy-six men participated in the first, of whom
When you think of people from New Zealand, what do you envision? White people? Maybe semi-British, semi-Australian sounding people? Maybe a famous person from a movie youve seen or love? Thats exactly what I used to imagine in my mind. And because of colonialism and globalization, its almost exactly