Royal Charles was an 1,229 tons, 80-gun ship of the English Navy, built in 1655. In 1660 she sailed to Scheveningen (Holland) to bring King Charles II back to England. She took part in the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War. In 1665, she fought in the Battle of Lowestoft and destroyed the Dutch flagship. In 1666, she participated in the Four Days Battle and the defeat of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter in the St. James’s
The greater prairie chicken or pinnated grouse (Tympanuchus cupido), sometimes called a boomer, is a large bird in the grouse family. This North American species was once abundant, but has become extremely rare. One of the most famous aspects of these creatures is the mating ritual called booming. In Illinois alone, in the 1800s the
Who set out to ‘conquer knowledge’ and not just territory?… Napoleon…. He took 154 scholars to Egypt in 1798 and again in 1800 he sent Baudin to Australia. He forced him to take dozens of scientists, botanists, geographers, hydrographers. Baudin mapped the coast of Victoria and named it Napoleon Terre. If he had not been
Gibralta is 206th and thus bottom in the FIFA worldranking. It has 33.000 inhabitants, the highest divorce rate in the world and only has 29 km road (only Tuvalu and the Cocos Islands have less tarmac). Their language is Llanito, a bizarre mix of languages, incl medieval Genoese and Hebrew. Speakers seem to switch languages
