Until the end of the 16th century, all Chinese maps identified with the exonym Da Qin to the city of Rome. An exonym, as we explained some time ago, is the term used by speakers of a language to refer to a place that is outside their scope. A clear example would be the term London, which is how we S
Amelia Earhart, born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897 and disappeared in the region of the Phoenix Islands archipelago (current Kiribati) on July 2, 1937, was an American aviator. She is famous in particular for having been, in June 1928, the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane. Chi
The first animals formed complex ecological communities more than 550 million years ago, laying the evolutionary groundwork for the Cambrian explosion, according to a study by Rebecca Eden, Emily Mitchell and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, UK, published in the open access journal PLOS Bi
By defeating Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig , the monarchist nations that fought against the famous general hoped to bury once and for all the liberal promises that had fostered the arrival of this soldier to power. As defeat was not enough, the royalist forces were careful to isolate t