The Corinth Canal, which links the gulf of the same name in the northwest of the Peloponnese with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean through a 6.3-kilometre-long waterway, was built at the end of the 19th century, between 1881 and 1893. But the idea was not new, it was several centuries old (even Nero
In East Asia, World War II began in July 1937 with the Japanese invasion of mainland China. The main reason for the invasion was the perception of Japans lack of living space. Japan is a mountainous country with limited arable land. From 1868 to 1930 the Japanese population grew rapidly, from 30 mil
Finding of the Mummy: Thursday, September 19, 1991 - 1.30 pm Ötztal Alps - Giogo di Tisa - 3210 m a.s.l. (South Tyrol, Italy) The definitive proof of the effective and extraordinary antiquity of the mummy comes from the dating to Carbon 14 :lived over 5000 years ago , at the time when copper
The Portuguese maritime expansion was the first in all of Europe. For the Portuguese, navigation was the way they found to trade with different parts of the world. By Leandro CarvalhoThe Portuguese were the first Europeans to go to sea in the period of the Great Maritime Navigations , in the fiftee