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In the 1973 Football match, during the intercontinental play-offs for the 1974 FIFA World Cup (with the deciding match taking place in November 1973), The USSR refused to play its match against Chile in the Santiago's Estadio Nacional Stadium. REASON: The stadium was used as a concentration camp/detention center, using the locker rooms, tunnels, and stands to detain, torture, and execute thousands of citizens, during the brutal Chilean military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The USSR appealed to FIFA to move the match to a neutral country, stating that Soviet sportsmen could not, on moral grounds, perform in a venue "stained with the blood of the patriots of the people of Chile." FIFA sent a delegation to inspect the Estadio Nacional. The inspection turned into a dark farce. To hide what was happening, the Chilean military hid thousands of political prisoners below deck in the locker rooms and inner tunnels, keeping them at gunpoint to ensure absolute silence whil...

All these countries in Orange colour call the fruit Orange Portugal or a derivative of the word Portugal Portugal is a country...... no? During the late 1400s and 1500s, Portuguese maritime traders encountered the sweet orange in East Asia and brought it back to the Mediterranean. Portuguese sailors realized that packing their ships with these sweet, vitamin C-rich fruits kept their crews safe from scurvy during long ocean voyages. Because Portuguese merchants dominated the distribution of this delicious new variety, people across the trade routes stopped using the old words for bitter citrus and simply started calling the fruit after the people selling it: "the fruit from Portugal." Arabic: Burtuqāl (برتقาล) Turkish: Portakal Persian / Farsi: Porteghāl (پرتقال) Greek: Portokáli (πορτοקάλι) Romanian: Portocală Bulgarian: Portokal (портокал) Albanian: Portokall Georgian: Fortokhali (ფორთოხალი) Amharic (Ethiopia): Birtukan Somali: Bortoqāl THE CURIOSITY......... In Portugal, t...

  India's Most ICONIC Car Was Actually A 1950s British Reject Introduced in Britain in 1956, the Morris Oxford Series III didn't last long. By 1959, British buyers wanted sleeker, more modern styling, and Morris replaced it with a sharper design penned by Italian studio Pininfarina. With the old assembly line suddenly obsolete in the UK, Hindustan Motors (HM) stepped in. They bought the rights, packed up the entire tooling and press machinery from Cowley, England, and shipped it over to Uttarpara near Kolkata. While the British market rejected the round, bulbous design as outdated, India embraced it for its structural merits: The Monocoque Frame: It was incredibly tough, managing deep potholes and unpaved rural tracks better than fragile imports. The Sofa-Like Back Seat: Perfect for a chauffeur-driven culture, offering incredible headroom and legroom. High Ground Clearance: High enough to navigate monsoon floods and rocky roads. The "Amby" quickly transitioned from a ...

The ancient town of Ma-Kum in Assam was renamed by the British Margherita after the Italian Queen Margherita of Savoy Ma-Kum, translates to the "abode of all tribes" in the local Ahom and Singpho languages. The name Makum still exists today for a separate, neighboring railway junction town about 30 kilometers away. When massive coalbeds and tea plantation potential were discovered in Upper Assam during the late 1800s, the Assam Railways & Trading Company was formed to mine the area and establish vital transport lines. Italian engineers, led by Roberto Paganini, were hired by the British to build a crucial railway line and bridge over the Dihing River to open up the local coalfields. When they successfully completed the grueling project in 1884, Paganini named the settlement Margherita as a patriotic nod to his home country’s rei gning queen. A township came up around the tea gardens and coal mines. Today, the historic town is nicknamed the "Coal Queen" of Assam ...

  Any Korean surnamed Kim (from Gimhae) or Heo, trace their origins back to one Indian Princess from Ayodhya named Suriratna (Queen Heo Hwang-ok) According to the Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) text, in 48 CE, a 16-year-old princess arrived by boat on the shores of the Geumgwan Gaya kingdom (modern-day Gimhae in South Korea). She stated that the Heavenly Lord appeared in her parents' dreams, instructing them to send her to marry King Kim Suro, the founder of the Gaya Kingdom. The Samguk Yusa says she came from a distant land named "Ayuta". Anthropologists and linguists (like Professor Kim Byung-mo) popularized the theory that "Ayuta" is phonetically identical to Ayodhya. The royal couple had 12 children. The Kims: Ten sons carried on King Suro's lineage. This birthed the Gimhae Kim clan. The Heos: The queen requested that her family name not be lost, so King Suro allowed two of their sons to take her maiden name, founding the Gimhae Heo clan...