After watching 300, I was intregued about its story. It’s a fact or a fiction. But, I thought this movie was too dramatically insane (but it’s a good movie, although there is no blood that fall onto the ground). Then, accidentally I found the history of Persian War in hyperhistory site. It was between 500 B.C. to 1 A.D. This is the story I found in the site. continue reading »
Have you ever heard the song “Bohemian Rhapsody” sung by the Queen? But we’re not talking about the song. I will discuss the history of bohemian. Let’s go to the point. continue reading »
The definition of pornography can not be interpreted by all parties. A television is regarded as family entertainment by some communities could be categorized as pornography by some other people. Because of its subjective definition, Encyclopaedia Britannica mention, to determine the trace of the history of pornography is nearly impossible. continue reading »
Temple of Hera
Beside the Gulf of Salerno, 25 centuries ago stood the luxurious city of Paestum, one of many built and settled by Greek colonists along Italy’s southern shores. But Paestum was an unlucky town. Conquered first by barbarous Lucanians, then by Romans, it was periodically sacked by sea raiders, from Cilician pirates in the first century to Saracens in the ninth. In the meantime the plain became a malarial marsh (a condition not corrected until 1944). The population dwindled until the survivors, continue reading »
In 1405 his fleet of 300 ships and 27,000 men visited Vietnam, Siam, Java, Ceylon, and the West coast of India. Returning in 1407, Cheng made six more such voyages in the following 24 years, sailing all the way to Arabia and Egypt. From his voyages Cheng brought home the envoys of over 30 states to pay homage to the Chinese Emperor.
But there followed no world conquest because the Ming emperor was convinced that China was the centre of the world and therefore had nothing to gain from contact with the barbarians. Cheng-ho was forbidden to go to sea again, his records were burnt, and the memory of his fantastic sea voyages faded.