Did Malian sailors reach the Americas in 1311 CE? Malian sailors got to America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, published on this sometime around 1342 In the tenth chapter of his book, there is an account of two large maritime voyages ordered by the predecessor of Mansa Musa, a king who inherited the Malian throne in 1312
If you shave or wax, will the hair grow back stronger or thicker? i have a light, reddish-brown beard, but if i shave it the next day the stubble looks black since i don't think the hairs are actually changing color, my assumption is that they look darker when they are smaller because they contrast more with the skin color, or maybe because the hairs are more perpendicular to the skin i think the myth comes from that--lighter hair can appear darker when it
Did Muslims discover the Americas in the 12th century A. D. ? Turkish president Erdogan recently claimed Muslims discovered the Americas in 1178 A D Muslims discovered the Americas more than three centuries before Christopher Columbus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said
Did children in Ethiopia hack Android in five months? The source MIT Technology Review article seems to answer your questions Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction
united states - Did 9 11 lead to many deaths due to car accidents . . . Even if the entire increase in fatalities could be attributed to increased driving due to the fear unavailability of flying, and the entire increase in 2001 was September or later, that is "only" an increase of 1,311 fatalities over a period of 15 months
Did Christopher Columbus believe America was India? Many of us might recall learning in school that when Christopher Columbus reached the New World, he believed that he had reached India For that reason, Native Americans are often called Indians
Did the Special Virus-Cancer Program (SVCP) exist? It's described in a number of places, including this 1971 article in Science (24 Dec 1971:Vol 174, Issue 4016, pp 1306-1311 DOI: 10 1126 science 174 4016 1306): Special Virus Cancer Program: Travails of a Biological Moonshot Quoting from that article: