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Antonio Pigafetta recorded that the Moluccan pilot of the ship Vittoria told a story about the people of Aracheto. The men and women were 1.5 feet high; their food was the pith of a tree; and they dwells in caverns under ground. Their ears were as long as their bodies; so that, when they lay down, one ear served as a mattress and the other as a ...
"Bruh" originated from the word "brother" and was used by Black men to address each other as far back as the late 1800s. Around 1890, it was recorded as a title that came before someone's name ...
The Fish People from the radio broadcast Alexei Sayle and the Fish People; The Fishmen are a race of fish-like humans from the anime One Piece. They are modeled after different aquatic lifeforms. The Fishmen can breed with Giants to create Wotans. Gill (aka Gil Moss) from "Kim Possible" Goo from Gumby; Hippocampus from Krapopolis is a piscine ...
In the Kii Zōdan Shū of the Edo Period are statements about umibōzu called "kuro nyūdō" (black priest initiates). A boat was going Ise Province (now Mie Prefecture) to Cape Irago and a boatman named Zenchi refused to have "just one woman" on, [b] so he forcefully took his wife on the boat, and it encountered a large storm. The shipowner ...
While some people call it Gen Z slang or Gen Z lingo, these words actually come from Black culture, and their adoption among a wider group of people show how words and phrases from Black ...
1. A towed or self-propelled flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river, canal or coastal transport of heavy goods. 2. Admiral ' s barge: A boat (or aircraft) at the disposal of an admiral (or other high ranking flag officer) for his or her use as transportation between a larger vessel and the shore, or within a harbor. In Royal Navy service ...
1. (ship's boat) A small, light boat propelled by oars or a sail, used as a tender to larger vessels during the Age of Sail. 2. (full-rigged pinnace) A small "race built" galleon, square-rigged with either two or three masts. 3. In modern usage, any small boat other than a launch or lifeboat associated with a larger vessel. pintle
The ahuizotl is most likely a water opossum, which possesses dexterous hands "like a raccoon's or a monkey's", as well as a prehensile tail (the hand most likely represents this prehensile nature), waterproof marbled black and grey fur, and small pointed ears.