The Aztecs, when building their new capital of Tenochtitlan, “borrowed” the city plan of an earlier Mesoamerican civilization. Can you guess which one?
05 outubro 2017
First Meeting of the National Space Council
Members of the National Space Council are seen during the council's first meeting on Oct. 5 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The council, chaired by Vice President Mike Pence heard testimony from representatives from civil space, commercial space, and national security space industry representatives.
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While in China, Marco Polo labeled Japan the island of Chipangu in a book, rather than Nihon or...
While in China, Marco Polo labeled Japan the island of Chipangu in a book, rather than Nihon or Nippon, which is what the Japanese call themselves. It seems Chipangu was an early Mandarin word for Japan, and in modern Shanghainese the word for Japan is still Zeppen.
But most of the world, and indeed most of China, calls the country a version of “Nipon.” The Western World is the odd one out, still calling the island “Japan!”
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