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According to one Spanish account, 900 Tompiro Indians were killed. 900 [30] 1609: Orpax Massacre: Jamestown, Virginia: During The Starving Time at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia, John Ratcliffe, president of the colony, and around 50 colonists went to meet with a group of Powhatan Indians to bargain for food. However they were ambushed and ...
An extract from the Cyrus Cylinder (lines 15–21), giving the genealogy of Cyrus the Great and an account of his capture of Babylon in 539 BC The cuneiform sign "EN", for "Lord" or "Master": the evolution from the pictograph of a throne circa 3000 BC, followed by simplification and rotation down to circa 600 BC. [77]
The Turing Test later led to the development of 'chatbots', AI software entities developed for the sole purpose of conducting text chat sessions with people. Now, chatbots have a more inclusive definition; a computer program that can hold a conversation with a person, usually over the internet.
John F. Kennedy International Airport was originally called Idlewild Airport (IATA: IDL, ICAO: KIDL, FAA LID: IDL) after the Idlewild Beach Golf Course that it displaced.It was built to relieve LaGuardia Field, which had become overcrowded after its 1939 opening.
Israel occupied the Gaza Strip during the Six Day War, capturing it from Egypt along with the Sinai peninsula.In 1970, the first Israeli settlement was built. In 1993, as part of the Oslo Accords, the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel agreed to an outline for Palestinians to self-govern in the Palestinian territories.
West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).
Norse accounts are scant. Norse-made items from Inuit campsites in Greenland were obtained by either trade or plunder. [101] One account, Ívar Bárðarson, speaks of "small people" with whom the Norsemen fought. [102] 14th-century accounts relate that a western settlement, one of the two Norse settlements, was taken over by the Skræling. [103]