Why is Indian Ocean named after India? Why did loyalism appeal to Native Americans? Why were the Olmecs called the mother of Mesoamerican civilizations? Why did the Lakota call Little Bighorn greasy grass? Why did the British believe they could take Aboriginal land?
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But their focus wasn't on Mars. It was on its moon, Phobos; named after the Greek God of fear. After all, if NASA could land on Mars, landing on one of its moons should be easy, right? Well, it turns out Mars' largest moon was right to be named after the Greek God of fear....
“India and China have had trade relations in the past, so the myth of a monkey god might have also been exchanged between the two regions.” In India, Lord Hanuman is generally depicted with a muscular human body, the red face of a monkey and a long tail. ...
6.2. Opening of the Drake Passage and onset of circumpolar ocean flow in a global plate kinematic context The opening of the Drake Passage occurred after the 50 Ma onset of overriding plate extension in a time interval of global geodynamic and climatic change. The onset of westward absolute Sou...
The East Indian Company and Sepoys: When the English established the East India Company in the early 1600s, they also became involved in domestic affairs in India. There were occasional wars and other social calamities in India throughout the 1600s and 1700s. Furthermore, the Dutch and French...
The British East India Company formally lasted until 1874 but after 1857 it was a shell of its former self. It was responsible for trade monopolization on behalf of the British in the Indian Ocean and, later, into the South China Sea. ...
阅读理解 Sri Lanka is known as the“Pearl of the Indian Ocean , and it is easy to see why.This little country never fails to please visitors. Arrive. The national airline is Sri Lankan Airlines, which flies from Colombo to London and a couple of ot
“internal evidence;” and in doing this, they show as little hesitation as Mr. Fergusson when ascribing a post-Christian age to the most ancient rock-cut temple in India, merely on its “external form.” As for their unseemly quarrels, mutual recriminations, and personalities over questions ...
And after that in 2008, a mountaineer from Bengal named Basanta Singha Roy became the first Indian to summit the peak. From that day till today only a handful of mountaineers have climbed Thalay Sagar and the rest of us (including me) have done this in our wildest dreams!