Julius Manuel

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Real life events presented in a narrative style.

The Narváez expedition was a Spanish journey of exploration and colonization started in 1527 that intended to establish colonial settlements and garrisons in Florida. The expedition was initially led by Pánfilo de Narváez, who died in 1528. Many more people died as the expedition traveled west along the explored Gulf Coast of the present-day United States and into the American Southwest. Only four...

First ever reported murder of this kind! 

The Treasure of Lima is a legendary buried treasure reputedly removed from Lima, Peru, in 1820 and never recovered. It is estimated to be worth up to £160 million or $208 million in today's money.

Epic Journey of Paul Du Chaillu

Strange story of a rogue elephant.

ഒരു വാശിപ്പുറത്ത് ലോകം ചുറ്റാനിറങ്ങിയ രണ്ടു വനിതകൾ. പക്ഷെ അവർക്കറിയില്ലായിരുന്നു അതൊരു മത്സരമായിരുന്നുവെന്ന്

മനുഷ്യനിൽ നിന്നാണ് ആദ്യത്തെ ആന ഉണ്ടായത് എന്നാണ് ആഫ്രിക്കൻ പാരമ്പര്യം. അതിനാൽ തന്നെ ആനകൾക്ക് മനുഷ്യനുള്ള സകലവിധ വികാരങ്ങളും ഉണ്ടെന്ന് തന്നെ അവർ കരുതുന്നു. ഒറ്റയാന്റെയുള്ളിൽ ഭ്രാന്തുപിടിച്ച ഒരു മനുഷ്യാത്മാവ് ആണ് ഉള്ളെതെന്നും അവർ ഒരുകാലത്ത് കരുതിയിരുന്നു. ഇത്തരം ഒരു കൊലയാനയെ നേരിടുന്ന ജെയിസ് സതർലാൻഡിന്റെ കഥയാണ്. കോം കോം.

ഒരുകാലത്ത് വടക്ക് പടിഞ്ഞാറൻ ആഫ്രിക്കൻ തീരങ്ങളിൽ കപ്പലപകടം നടന്നാൽ ആളുകൾ രക്ഷപെടുവാനുള്ള സാധ്യത തീരെ കുറവായിരുന്നു. ഒന്നുകിൽ അറ്റ്ലാൻറ്റിക്കിൽ മുങ്ങി മരിക്കും, കരയ്ക്ക് കയറിയാൽ സഹാറൻ മരുഭൂമിയിൽ വിശന്ന് വലഞ്ഞു മരിക്കും. അതായിരുന്നു സ്ഥിതി. ഇവിടെ പക്ഷെ ഇവരെ കാത്തിരുന്നത് അതിലും ഭീകരമായ അവസ്ഥയായിരുന്നു.

La Noche Triste ("The Night of Sorrows", literally "The Sad Night") was an important event during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, wherein Hernán Cortés, his army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan. The Fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, was a decisive event in the Spanish conquest of the empire. It occu...

Thrilling story of American mountain man John Colter.

The mountain lion—also known as the cougar, puma, panther, or catamount—is a large cat species native to the Americas. ... Mountain lions inhabit a wide range of ecosystems, making their home anywhere there is shelter and prey, including mountains, forests, deserts, and wetlands

True incident of three films crew members who were trapped inside a live volcano during their film shooting.

Steven Callahan is an American author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor. In 1981, he survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft.

History of Meghalaya, the land of rain and caves.

Kenneth Douglas Stewart Anderson (8 March 1910 – 30 August 1974) was an Indian-born, British writer and hunter who wrote books about his adventures in the jungles of South India. Anderson gives insights into the people of the Indian jungles of his time, with woods full of wildlife and local inhabitants having to contend with poor quality roads, communication and health facilities. His books delve...

Kazimierz Nowak was a Polish traveler, correspondent, reporter and photographer. From 1931 to 1936, he traveled alone, by bicycle, on foot, on horse, by boat and on camel across Africa, covering a distance of 40,000 km from Libya to Cape Agulhas, South Africa and back to Algeria. He died in Poznań from pneumonia as a consequence of emaciation of the body due to travel, malaria, and leg surgery. Ph...

Voortrekker was the elder of an inspiringly resilient herd of elephant bulls known as desert elephants. These mammals are not a unique species. What makes them special is their ability to adapt to the harsh climate through learnt behaviour. Their survival is not through genetic adaptation, but through a passing on of knowledge. During the 1980s they were driven out from their natural habitat and i...

A zombie is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, in which a zombie is a dead body reanimated through various methods, most commonly magic like voodoo. Modern media depictions of the reanimation of the dead often do not involve magic but rather sc...

Vitus Bering was an explorer who proved that Asia and North America are not joined by land. In 1728 Bering sailed from the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean through a narrow passage that now bears his name—the Bering Strait. On a second voyage, Bering explored Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. On July 13, 1728, Bering sailed from the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia, eastern Russia. In August his ship pass...

The Falklands വാർ was a 10-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The conflict began on 2 April, when Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands, followed by the invasion of South Georgia the next day...

The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the 1929 murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park garage on the morning of that feast day, February 14th.

A coalition of lions sounds like a strategic, political alliance. And it is, sort of. If you’re imagining polite parliamentary debates, though, you’re off the mark. A lion coalition is simply a group of two or more (and occasionally up to seven) male lions who have “teamed up.” These males are often brothers, half-brothers, or cousins who grew up in the same pride. Occasionally, non-related males...

At a cool morning a woman found that her dogs are barking unusually. What she found in her backyard was unpredictable!