Buddha invited all the animals to a great race.Only twelve animals showed up.Grateful for their efforts,Buddha rewarded them by naming each year of the Chinese Zodiac calendar after these twelve animals.The twelve animals in the race were the Rat,Ox,Tiger,Rabbit,Dragon,Snake,Horse,Ram,Monkey,...
This further calls for consideration that Sistrunk males cannot be ruled out as progenitors of her mixed race children, or for that matter that Francis, who was identified as mulatto, may herself have been the offspring of an enslaved woman and a Sistrunk male. Ongoing archival research will ...
Nevertheless, they were often presented to Europeans at the time as true accounts of explorations and thus ultimately helped form European perceptions and conceptions of the rest of the world, which arguably helped lay the ground for later 'civilizing' measures and actions taken [3]. The above...