The history of Morocco spans several millennia, succeeding the prehistoric cultures of Jebel Irhoud and Taforalt.It dates from the establishment of Mauretania and other ancient Berber kingdoms, to the establishment of the Moroccan state by the Idrisid dynasty followed by other Islamic dynasties, through to the colonial and independence periods.

Bill Browder arrived in Moscow in the spring of 1996 with $25 million to wager in the fledgling Russian stock market.Over the next few years, he earned his clients a 700 percent return, lost almost everything in the 1998 financial meltdown, and won it all back and more in the boom that followed.

According to the most prominent theory, the name Rus’, like the Finnish name for Sweden (Ruotsi), is derived from an Old Norse term for “the men who row” (rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen (the rowing crews) or Roden, as it was

The Laxdale Saga. 1880 translation into English by Muriel A. C. Press from the original Icelandic ‘Laxdæla saga’. Chapter 1 – Of Ketill Flatnose …

European exploration: European exploration of Earth, beginning about the 4th century BCE.

MOVIES (HISTORICAL FILMS) IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER (UNDER CONSTRUCTION — I’m watching and writing about these movies as fast as I …

History and Ethnic Relations Emergence of the Nation. The area now called Russia has always been multicultural. The Eastern Slavic tribes, the ancestors of modern Russians, traditionally are thought to have originated in the Vistula River valley in what is now Poland and to have migrated eastward in the seventh to the ninth centuries.

Atlantis Location Hypothesis. Piri Reis Map . There have been many locations proposed for the location of mythical Atlantis. Some are more or less serious attempts at legitimate scholarly or archaeological works; others have been made by psychic or other pseudoscientific means.

08 Dec 38: Germany’s only aircraft carrier, the GRAF ZEPPELIN, is launched, though far from complete. Due to shifting construction priorities necessitated by the coming war, she will never be completed, nor become operational, and will remain in the Baltic for the duration of the war.

The Story of Burnt Njal. 1861 translation into English by George W. DaSent from the original Icelandic ‘Brennu-Njáls saga’. Chapter 1 – Of Fiddle Mord