It is almost impossible that someone has never seen a movie about the Pacific campaign in World War II. So, it is also unlikely that the word banzai is unknown; who more who less, we all know that the Japanese soldiers shouted it in battle. Actually, it is the synthesis of a longer expression, as we
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Anonymous portrait of Fernand de Magellan, 16th or 17th century, Mariners Museum, Newport News (Virginia) • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS In the spring of 1518, Fernand de Magellan, Portuguese hidalgo, concluded an agreement with the young king of Spain Charles Ist to lead a commercial expedition to the oth
French Congo , French Congo Français , French possessions in Equatorial Africa from 1897 to 1910, when the colonies Gabon , Central Congo (Moyen-Congo) and Ubangi-Shari-Chad were combined under this name Afrique Équatoriale Française (AEF). Thereafter the term Middle Congo was used t