Chickees were traditional dwellings of the Waccamaw Indians, consisting of a rectangular or oval platform elevated a few feet above the ground, with a thatched roof and walls made from palmetto leaves or reeds.
Chickees were traditional dwellings of the Waccamaw Indians, consisting of a rectangular or oval platform elevated a few feet above the ground, with a thatched roof and walls made from palmetto leaves or reeds.
Adam Friedrich Bishop of Würzburg and Duke of Franconia agreed to raise two infantry regiments to serve with the Austrian army fighting Frederick the Greats Prussians during the Seven Years War (1756-63). The 2nd of these regiments was the so-called Blue Regiment of Würzburg. The regiment began to b
How could one characterize the resistance of 55 postal workers, a railroad worker and civilians, including a 10-year-old girl, against the Nazi hordes if not heroic? On September 1, 1939, in what was then Gdansk (now Gdansk, Poland), the citys Polish postmen, expecting a German invasion, had bar
Its two in the afternoon; the Dutch, fortunately, did not move, and the English column harassed by the French charges has, for a few moments, stopped its rapid progress. Hope changed sides... Around the king of France stands a council; the third phase - final and decisive - is taking place.While
In this sense, in the river basins Volga and Don is where the Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius locates Tartary, as we can see on the world map Typus orbis terrarum [1], from 1608, where we also see that Tartary differs from Mongolia itself or from Turkestan. But it can also, in a more general