Venice and Turkey During a war with Venice, the Turks stored gunpowder in the Parthenon. Venice, wishing to destroy Turkey's supplies, bombarded it.
Prior to its annexation by the USA in 1898, Hawaií had been a republic for about four years. What was it immediately before that?
Over two days in 1921 a lynch mob destroyed 35 blocks of thriving businesses and homes, and between 30 and 300 people were killed and 10,000 left homeless. For more than 70 years it was barely mentioned and multiple records of the disaster were destroyed. Where?
US President Bush sent 2,000 troops into which country to conduct regular military exercises and, after a US serviceman was shot by local forces in December 1989, ordered an additional 24,000 troops in to take control?
Which languages have been spoken, for at least 6,000 years, by the peoples of an island forcibly colonised since 1895 by Japanese and then Chinese forces with programmes aimed (ultimately unsuccessfully) at eliminating the indigenous language and culture?
