Emotan, whose real name was Uwarraye was a 15th-century market woman, revered by the Benin people for aiding Oba Ewuare in reclaiming the throne as Oba of Benin after he spent several years in exile. Uwarraye was born in Eyaen between 1380
“The hand of God,” known as the famous FIFA World Cup goal of 1986. England and Argentina were tied to play off for the quarter-finals match of the 1986 FIFA World Cup. The goal was a hand-line goal scored by Argentine footballer
Liberia is a country in West Africa founded by free people of colour from the United States. Prior to the emigration of newly released African American slaves and citizens from the United States, Pedro de Sintra, a Portuguese sailor was first said
Just before the men’s 1500 meters free-style swimming ended, a woman wearing a red heart, who had repeatedly tried to take pictures of Adolf Hitler at close range and had the Black Guards repeatedly stop her, broke through the barrier during the
Alice Liddell was the middle daughter born to Henry George Liddell, Dean of Christ Church at Oxford. Alice and her sisters, Edith and Lorina, met Lewis Carroll for the first time on April 25, 1856, while he and his friend were setting
At the start of the Olympics in 1896, the organizers were trying for a show that portrayed the ancient glory of Greece. Michel Bréal thought of the marathon race after the legend of Pheidippides. The legend had it that Pheidippides, the Athenian
In the 1940s and 50s, children who were born into mixed-race homes were forcefully taken from their parents and into Belgium to be fostered by the Catholic Church and some other institutions. The Belgian Prime minister, Charles Michel in his speech on
In 1995, a photo taken captures eleven workers, mostly immigrants, who while having lunch sit comfortably on the tiny width of the crossbeam. They sit without fear of falling while having their sandwich and taking cigarettes. These men of both big and
The R100 Airship began construction after the British Government embarked on a project on advancing their airships to guarantee passenger and mail transport between Britain and her empire which was made of India, Australia and Canada. To start, the first idea of
In August 1945, it was till after the Japanese announced their defeat, that the lights in Times Square came on. The lights came on subsequent to an earlier four-year blackout. As the world watched with joy; Mayor LaGuardia announced the surrender of
In 1918, British mountaineering physiologist, Alexander Kellas, gave birth to the idea of a flight quest over the Mountain Everest. Kelly further added to his diary “The Possibility of Aerial Reconnaissance in the Himalayas.” Alexander Kellas was also a skilled mountain climber
Following the end of the war, over a 1.5million unions, as well as confederate veterans, became involved in various active post-war societies to help drive the nation’s purpose to the desired goal. After the civil war, different veteran associations were established, they were
It was absolutely necessary that all NASA craft underwent complete testing through one of the administration’s 42 major wind tunnels and got cleared for liftoff once all the parameters were reached. The wind tunnels varied from a few inches wide to large
This photo was taken by a Munich photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann during a rally to support the war against Russia on the 2nd of August, 1914. A day before the Reich presidential election, the Illustrierter Beobachter published an image of Adolf Hitler at
During World War I, balloons provided the perfect mid-air surveillance. The idea of the Balloon was birthed in a bid to serve as an air patrol, the use grew further. Although then, they were aeroplanes, which spotted the enemy advancement with transmissions,
The photograph was during the Battle Of Saipan which took the lives of 22,000 Japanese Civilians, most of who died by suicide and almost all 30,000 Japanese troops that were on the island. 71,000 American troops landed on Saipan, however, 3,426 died,