H i s t o r y V i l l e @HistoryVille
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The death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. at the age of 32 remains one of history's enduring mysteries. #HistoryVille Full story: youtu.be/MrScgdUc8rE
A nightclub in Lagos, 1959. #HistoryVille
American pilot, Ron Archer en route to Eastern Nigeria on an ammunition supply run for the Biafran army, 1968. #HistoryVille
Fido, President Abraham Lincoln's yellow mixed-breed dog, was also assassinated shortly after his master's assassination in 1865. #HistoryVille
Female students of the Katsina Provincial Secondary School, Katsina, Northern Nigeria, February 1966. #HistoryVille
In 15 years of conquest, Alexander the Great never lost a battle. His military tactics and strategies are still studied in military academies today. #HistoryVille Check out other interesting facts here: youtu.be/ZVbXqPkOFjM
A Cub Scout, Eastern Nigeria, 1962. #HistoryVille
The South-East (which comprises five states – Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo) is Nigeria's smallest geopolitical zone. It is also the only zone in the country without an international border, that is, not bounded by any country. #HistoryVille
One of the worst presidents in American history, James Buchanan Jr. (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868), the 15th President of the United States, was a lifelong bachelor who never married nor had children. He served only one term and was happy to leave the White House. #HistoryVille
A Zairean soldier "steals" from a Rwandan civilian, before he crosses into the country, fleeing in front of advancing Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) forces, July 17, 1994. #HistoryVille
The first man in space, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968) flanked by two unknown men at the Kano Airport, Northern Nigeria, c.1961. #HistoryVille
Addis-Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, named her streets after every African country. Of course, there is Nigeria Street. #HistoryVille
A Nigerian federal soldier swings a hand grenade by its release pin while "guarding" Biafran women and children during the civil war, 1968. #HistoryVille
Captured French soldiers, escorted by Vietnamese troops, walk to a prisoner-of-war camp, Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, May 7, 1954, after a 56-day battle, forcing the French government to abandon colonial rule in Indochina. #HistoryVille
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MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: WHO ARE YOU? There were three ships which were nearby when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912.
Although Oliveria cannot use a wheelchair (because of his unusual shape) and walks on his knees, he always tries to adapt his body to different situations and feels like a ''normal person''. What's your excuse? Have a historic week ahead! #HistoryVille #MondayMotivation
MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE? In 1976, when Claudio Vieira de Oliveira was born in Bahia, Brazil, with his head upsidedown, his hands and legs severely deformed and his joints fused together, doctors told his mother to starve him to death.
In 1847, midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), a group of Choctaw Native American Indians donated $170 (about $5,000 today) to help starving Irish men, women, and children.
The 18th-century Queen Kambasa of Bonny succeeded her father, King Edimini after his death, and became the amanyanabo (ruler) having seized the ivory tusk (the symbol of kingship) by forcing the kingmakers to crown her. #HistoryVille More: buff.ly/2EFeSSI
A wedding ceremony of the Suri tribe in Ethiopia. The couple's lower lips are locked together with a ring to make them spend their whole life together. It helps to avoid cheating in the marriage. #HistoryVille
Malcolm X was one of the most prophetic revolutionary voices of the 20th century. He was a charismatic leader and speaker who called for freedom, equality, justice and respect. However, on February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated. He was just 39. #HistoryVille
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In the Middle Ages, women who talked too much were gagged with a metal cage to their face. #HistoryVille
Josephine Margaret Bakhita (c.1869–1947) was a Sudanese-Italian Canossian religious sister who was captured by a group of Arab slave dealers when she was about 10 years old. Over the course of twelve years (1877–1889), she was sold five times and then given away. #Thread
Igbo yam storage, c.1910. The Igbo kept several species of yam thousands of years ago. Yam is the most important crop and has a special deity named Njoku Ji or Ifejioku. The Iri Ji/Ike Ji/Iwa Ji festival is held as thanksgiving and petition for successful harvests. #HistoryVille
Graduates of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1926. #HistoryVille
In Eswatini, cows are worth their weight in gold that to buy a piece of land, you’ll have to pay the village headman in cows. Planning to get married? You’ll have to pay the bride price in cows. In fact, in Eswatini, a single cow costs around $500 (₦193,750).
It takes three years of higher education to become a police officer in Norway. The training takes place at a university college and each graduate gets a bachelor's degree in "Police Studies." #HistoryVille
On June 24, 2003, First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs. Stella Obasanjo, after she had summoned the wives of all 36 States governors to Abuja, publicly declared in front of television cameras that, ''There is only one First Lady in Nigeria. Period!'' #HistoryVille
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“Each time I want to fight for African rights, I use only one hand, because the other hand is busy trying to keep away Africans who are fighting me.”– Benjamin Burombo (1909–1959), Zimbabwean labour union leader and black nationalist in the then Southern Rhodesia. #HistoryVille
A Vietnamese monk burns himself in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm, 1963. #Thread
#OnThisDay, January 10, 1970, 53 years ago, the Nigerian Army reported that the Biafran General and Head of State, Emeka Ojukwu disguised as a priest and on a stretcher, fled for Cote d'Ivoire on one of the last aeroplanes out of Biafra via the Uli airstrip.
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