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Well... With this Kinburn island only, I am already walking in circles: The present peninsula - Kinburn - in ancient times was well known to Phoenician merchants and pirates. This land was once called Gileia (Borisfenida). “If you cross Borisfen (Dnieper), then Gilea will be the first from...

I read too fast, in a language that is not my native. I read: "ever been to" and pictured in my head you strolling there in the streets and then myself going to Odessa (that was once on my list) and I thought oooh wish I were there strolling around these beautiful buildings.... On several maps...

Yes yes what a coincidence. All the mumbo jumbo around Napoleon and he "finds" this stone too Rosetta Stone found

Yes... Belarus... White Russia White army The problem with Russian is all the conjugations

Because you said you visited I hesistated mentioning the catacomben but it seems not very tourist- friendly... The stone mining story is really weird: dug out ground from *under* your house to build your house on top... And if that is the way: how were other cities built? There seems to have...

I guess this is Biela (white): Белый (город)

Off topic but when was that? Right, when Napoleon invaded Egypt.

Forgive me, I'm new in this 😅. A lot of things have added too, since my history lessons at school (mid-80's) Life was a lot simpler then.

There are a few questions: - Why Palmyra? Nobody seems to know for sure about that nickname for St Petersburg but Palmyra was already in ruins in 1600's (according to official history) Or was it not? - Why (not Saint) Petersburg? The official name was Petrograd from 1914 until it changed into...

I found this about the previous photo. Famous poets? This is really one of the most disturbing series of photo's I have ever seen from an event. I mean naked corpses in coffins? Shooting in each others neck? The main photographer of this whole civil war is supposed to be Bruno Braquehais. And...

Rigardus Rijnhout: The Giant of Rotterdam

Still in the 90's in Morocco too. They thought (think) only Allah is allowed to create images or people. I think so too. I cannot imagine people from all over the world made exactly the same drawings in a constant quality. Like this and this and this .

I'd say that they used it to carve stones for the medieval castles, bridges and forts. Maybe all those stones are leftovers from buildings. But that is probably too simple.

Napoleon had a few of "brothers" that he made "kings" like Louis Napoleon, Lucien Napoleon and Joseph Napoleon. Some of them ended up in the USA like Joseph Napoleon But is it also known that his other brother Jerome Napoleon made whole bunch of Jerome-sons all over? One of them was the...

This is indeed something because it totally fits the "global warming" agenda People are rolling over each other that this is the prove that we have to do something. Now. And if you think cloud seeding might cause the damage, or the fact that there had been strange circumstances then you are the...

It is indeed a strange story, especially if you look at the grand palaces and buildings that appeared and the so-called emperors that built them in just a few years in a remote country. In the meanwhile the emperor found time to go on holiday in Egypt and Pompeii, and this: "Factories also...

I am not surprised if the Chinook and mogol / Tartars were the same people with not so much centuries between as they want us to believe. Maybe she was a descendant. In Amsterdam we had this stock exchange building "Beurs van Zocher" It was built and quickly demolished after 45 years because it...

This is from my 100 year old Napoleon book: "The result was that two great nations, in the full consciousness of their strength, collided like two knights in armor: the Roman, fully military-styled France, and the Germanic*, people-ruled England. Inexhaustible were the resources with which...

I did not know that the first name of Brazil was "Vera Cruz". (Holy cross) and later "Terra de Santa Cruz" (Land of the Holy Cross) If there were only a bunch of wild Indians that they found there for the first time "they" landed, they gave it a really strange name. But, so they constructed...

I found something really strange. But it is SO strange that I doubt my own sanity. The (other) stolen history documentary told about an advanced city Manaus in the middle of nowhere and Brazil in general (check this church and street lights) and I thought: all I know is that Brazil language...