A list of some great adventures in history.
A
man crashed some kind of glider miles from anywhere in the Australian desert,
and survived for weeks, via remnants of water, and being in shade, and tiny amounts
of water, of which there were not even any in a kind of ball fruit
Polish gulag,
in legend a Polish man escaped from a Gulag walked 1000s of miles, and saw a yeti
on the way to India, it may be partly true,
people in WW2 ghettoes fighting
the Nazis, shooting some of their enemies,
Lots
of adventure stories to escape the Nazis, or cross from Poland, to Switzerland,
Alamo,
Highland Clearances, people evicted from their homes, and many
of them dying, trecking to the coast,
African traders across millenia, trading
to many tribes,on own, and in groups,
City of Gold, a cartoon where people
trecked across mountains in Americas during Spanish colonisation, to find the
lost city of Gold
80 days around the world, including the Micheal Palin version
Africa
1970s cartoon he toured Africa in pre colonial days, seeing all the loads of world-like
tribes of Africa,
Argentina rugby cannibals plane crash, the rugby team, that
ate some of the dead, to survive,
West Canda shipwreck, a shipwreck, where
people were wrecked on the Canada, coast,
Mutiny on the Bounty
W of Chile
Robinson Crusoe style man, and Robinson Crusoe, theScottish man, who was on a
isle West of Chile on his own, and was uninteligible when found years later, his
only pal a goat,
Spanish man down the Amazon from Peru, during early conqesusts,
reaching past tribes which died off in many numbers of disease,
Marco Polo
A Tour of the Silk Road
Magellan
Chinese to Rome, in the pre 1000ad era, some Chinese or near there people,
went along the whole silk road, or to Arabia,
When Columbus went to America and thought the Horizon was land, how come the other sailors did not realise, surely there would have been ones who had seen that before, wasn't that unusual, as the horizon is not that far, and sailing across even the Med would have produced a horizon, but maybe there is an even larger line of the Atlantic its an unsual thing.
A graph which tells all human history
The History Lounge, where you can peruse articles, and volumes on historical related subjects.
An Index with links to almost all our sites.
Where you need to go, if you are interested in the Yeti
A badly organised, but intresting site saying intresting facts, that can make British nature exiting
British and Irish mountains the highest mountains and descriptions of the mountain ranges
THE 10 LARGEST CELTIC CITIES IN THE WORLD
A TABLE STATING WHAT ARE THE 10 MOST POPULOUS ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES
A SITE ON THE WORLD'S MAJOR RIVERS
Website detailing history, geography and wildlife of some of the most famous forests of Britain
Geoligcal survey organisations
10 Biggest cities of the Mississippi basin
Get a Travel Mug of the journeys of Marco Polo
A Mousemat with maps of the 4 major Voyages of Columbus
Get a Mousemat Map of the Empire of Alexander the Great
the highest mountains in each continent
Get a 100 Years since the North Pole was first reached T Shirt 1909 - 2009
The Story of World War One Aviation, and it's battles
Extremes on Earth in each continent
tallest buildings and structures in London, UK
lakes, tarns and reservoirs in Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England.
Malayalam language and the people of Kerala
Some small sites on things to do in places like the Faeroes, our other sites are better
A Map of Britain in terms of where the population centres are
A great Multiple Choice Quiz on animals
A list of the 38 most famous statues in the world.
The Battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift
A History of the present British Overseas Territories
A Multiple Choice Quiz on Evolutionary and to a small extent Geological History
A List of all the ethnicities and nationalities in the USA
Wacky Crazy humour, where Lonympics becomes Loonympics
A Maya Codex, a depiction of writing and books from the Pre Columban, era of the Americas
80 days around the world, - just the facts
Some history of the Smithsonian
Present Idea website, A top Class website for people thinking up that Gift Idea
Some History of the National Geographic Society
Bill and Ted the Films, a article on the 2 movies
A great geography quiz, 10 questions on the multiple choice basis
solar system record breakers Record breaking facts about each planet of the solar system
weather climate and NWP prediction computer models.
Supercomputer development of supercomputer technology
River main rivers of the planet.
A Conspiracy theory about Scottish Football and World Politics
Bank history History of banks