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Why is Myanmar called Burma?
The country received the name Burma at the end of the XIX century, when British colonizers came there.
In 1989, the military who came to power returned the country’s original name of Myanmar, as it is called by most indigenous people. Continue reading
Bermuda triangle – intersection of opinions?
The Bermuda triangle is usually called the area of the Atlantic ocean, where the mysterious disappearance of ships and aircraft is allegedly noted.
Its water area is bounded by the sides of the” triangle”, conventionally drawn between Florida and Bermuda, Puerto Rico and again Florida (via the Bahamas).
There are more than enough different hypotheses to explain these disappearances, including unusual weather conditions, “holes in space”, and alien abductions. However, skeptics believe that ships in the Bermuda triangle do not disappear more often than in other areas of The world’s oceans, and their disappearance can be explained by natural causes. Continue reading
