Thus, when the soldiers heard of Alexander’s plan, they refused to march further. The king had no choice but allowed them to march back home. Above were what Greek accounts told about the situation in the Greek camp. A mutiny that resulted from a sharp plunge in morale stopped AlexanderRead More →
GM Magnus Carlsen 2855 | #1 GM Magnus Carlsen is the current world chess champion. To many people, he’s the best to ever play the game, although GMs Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer remain in the conversation. At any rate, the clear and remarkable point is that before turning 30Read More →
Quoting the 1905 edition of ‘Thacker’s Indian Directory’, Buchanan says: “Pritchard lived on the fashionable Robinson Road and worked for the well-known trading house, Bird & Co.” He was therefore not an Anglo-Indian, but he was definitely a ‘British Indian’ — or a ‘colonial’ in contemporary nomenclature. When did IndiaRead More →
Establishing a strong rule with nearly 18 kings for about 200 years, the Southern King Krishnadeva Raya defeated the last ruler of Bahmani Empire after which it got disintegrated into 5 states around 1518 AD, collectively known as Deccan Sultanates and individually as: Nizamshahi of Ahmadnagar, Qutubshahi of Golconda (Read More →
When Shakespeare was writing, Illyria referred to a region of land on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, north of modern central Albania, which was under the control of the Venetian Republic. Are Slavs Illyrians? As a national term, “Illyrian” had no fixed meaning; sometimes it was applied to SlavsRead More →
Baki is also considerably stronger than Yujiro was at his age. It is highly likely that Baki’s rate of progression in terms of strength is faster than Yujiro’s, and it may not be long before he surpasses Yujiro as the strongest character in the series. Why did Motobe fight Musashi?Read More →