WEB1 day ago · Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī (/ ˌ ɪ b ən b æ t ˈ t uː t ɑː /; 24 February 1304 – 1368/1369), commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar. Over a period of thirty years from 1325 to 1354, Ibn Battuta visited most of North Africa, the Middle East, East Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, …
WEB1 day ago · Megalodon teeth have been excavated and used since ancient times. They were a valued artifact amongst pre-Columbian cultures in the Americas for their large sizes and serrated blades, from which they were modified into projectile points, knives, jewelry, and funeral accessories. At least some, such as the Panamanian Sitio Conte societies, …
WEB1 day ago · 1728. 18 July 1963. SU6677792455. 51°37′37″N 1°02′12″W. / 51.626958°N 1.036704°W / 51.626958; -1.036704 ( Britwell House and attached Walls and Coach House) 1059503. Britwell House and attached Walls and Coach House. More images. Britwell Park, monument about 90m south-west of Britwell House.
WEB1 day ago · Botswana (English: Land of the Tswana; / b ɒ t ˈ s w ɑː n ə / ⓘ, also UK: / b ʊ t-, b ʊ ˈ tʃ w-/), officially the Republic of Botswana (Setswana: Lefatshe la Botswana, [lɪˈfatsʰɪ la bʊˈtswana]), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahari …
WEB1 day ago · Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline.Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest.Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver …
WEB1 day ago · Etymology Chalcolithic Dolmen Anta da Arca. The word Portugal derives from the combined Roman-Celtic place name Portus Cale (present-day's conurbation of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia).Porto stems from the Latin for port, portus; Cale ' s meaning and origin is unclear. The mainstream explanation is an ethnonym derived from the Callaeci, …
WEB1 day ago · Bengal (Bengali: বঙ্গ, romanized: Bôṅgo, pronounced ⓘ) or endonym Bangla (Bengali: বাংলা, romanized: Bāṅlā, pronounced ⓘ) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.The region of Bengal proper is divided …