June 06, 2023
Upholding a tradition brought by immigrants from the Russian Empire in the early 1900s, the president of Argentina accepts any seventh son or seventh daughter as their own godchild. Three-term Argentine president Juan PerĂ³n reportedly had 1,982 godchildren.
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What Is the Difference Between South America and Latin America?
Christopher Columbus thought that he had found a shortcut to Asia when he reached terra firma in the Caribbean in 1492, but 10 years later Amerigo Vespucci realized the lands in question constituted a New World, at least for Europeans. As a result, the bulk of the Western Hemisphere was named in
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