On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and were
then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved
Africans in the New World marked the beginning of two and a
half centuries of slavery in North America.      

(Fox News) – Dozens of German warships that sank during World
War II have resurfaced in the Danube River near Prahovo, Serbia.

The vessels – exposed due to the river’s low water levels – were
among hundreds of Nazi Germany’s Black Sea fleet that retreated
from Soviet forces in 1944.