Thanjavur fact

 Known for it's beautiful "bommai" (or,"Thanjavur dancing dolls") dolls,  architecture and being the capital of another great sea empire in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu (the Chola Empire), this city was also ruled by the Marathas and the British empire before India got her independence.

Pallavas, Mamallapuram and a great sea empire from Tamil Nadu

 

The Pallavas were a large sea empire that conquered and ruled territories as far as South-east Asia (similar to the Chola empire who were also from Tamil Nadu) and used the lion as their political symbol.
They wrote in the ancestral language to both Tamil and Malayalam which, according to the tour guide in Mamallapuram, was called the "Bali script."

One of their cities, called "Mamallapuram"; because it was named after the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I (also known as "Mamalla");  and it is known for amazing examples of large and magnificent structures which are over a thousand years old.
This place still exists in Tamil Nadu with it's structures well-preserved by the ASI (the Archaeological Society of India)

A few examples of these structures are the lighthouse built for their port in Mamallapuram for the Pallavas, the famous Shore temple by the coast, gravity-defying rocks (I'm not kidding), and ancient temples with Bali script inscribed on some parts of their stones.

An interesting fact about this lighthouse is that it used oil lamps and it was later replaced by a new lighthouse built near it by the British empire.

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)

 

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia, a miscommunication caused the British to order their cavalry to charge into Russian artillery, which turned out to be a horrible and disastrous even where many cavalry soldiers died.

Opium Wars (from the late 1830s and the 1850s or so)

The British actually declared war on the Chinese for not letting the British East India Company sell opium to their people because the Chinese people were getting addicted to it, which eventually led to two wars fought over this.

Ironically, even France decided to fight alongside the British in the second opium war.

After the opium wars ended, this severely weakened the ruling Qing Dynasty of China and made Britain take a few Chinese ports for trade and acquire control of Hong Kong.

Hiroshima to Nagasaki

 

There was a Japanese man who survived the bombings of Hiroshima and then moved to Nagasaki before surviving another one there too.

for those who are not familiar with motorsport, i will return to making other history facts other than motorsport history, dw

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