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Nelson Mandela   President Nelson Mandela the first person who served as the first black President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He is widely regarded as a global icon for his struggle against racism, apartheid, and social injustice. Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in Mvezo, a small village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He attended university and studied law, becoming involved in the African National Congress (ANC), an organization that opposed the apartheid system of ethnical segregation and prejudice. In 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested and censured of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government. He was sentenced to life in prison and spent 27 years jailed, much of it on Robben Island. During his imprisonment, Nelson Mandela became a symbol of the struggle against apartheid, and his release in 1990 was celebrated around the world. He was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist After his discharge, Nelson Mandela cont

In ancient Greek mythology, Medusa is the most famous of three monstrous sisters known as the Gorgons.  The earliest known record of the story of Medusa and the Gorgons can be found in Hesiod’s Theogony.  According to this ancient author, the three sisters, Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa, were the children of Phorcys and Ceto and lived “beyond famed Oceanus at the world’s edge hard by Night”. Of the three, only Medusa is said to be mortal.  But she is also the most famous and the myth of her demise at the hands of Perseus is often recounted. Cursed on Medusa: Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In this work, Ovid describes Medusa as originally being a beautiful maiden.  Her beauty caught the eye of Poseidon, who desired her and proceeded to ravage her in Athena’s shrine.  When Athena discovered the sea god had ravaged Medusa in her shrine she sought vengeance by transforming Medusa’s hair into snakes so that anyone who gazed at her directly would be turned into stone. The power

The popular Okposi salt lake is among the amazing wonders of nature, making it to have a great features and historical background. The lake is located at Ivuezizor at Okposi Okwu in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. For about 400 years, it has been the source of salt for the people of the area. According to local mythology, the lake was discovered by two hunters, who were searching for drinking water found that the water could not quench their thirst.  Over the years, Okposi women led the production of salt by manipulating solar energy, and the town became a notable trade centre, attracting buyers both from the eastern and northern parts of present-day Nigeria. A famous market arose, Named "Odenigbo Okposi". The Okposi salt solution is found in a lake which approximately covers not more than three plots of land, at about 100×150 measurements. From a close view, it is purely greenish and glitters, as well as encircled by trees and grasses.

 Some people were asking who is the world dirtiest man and his biography, here are few details about him. His name is Amou Haji, an Iranian. He has not bathed for over 65 years— And since about a decades ago, he broke the world record for the longest time without taking a bath.  Amou Haji, lived in Dejgah village in the southern Iranian province of Fars.  He believes cleanliness brings on illness. He was not only know for not bathing, he was also known for drinking over a gallon of water per day, ate rotten meat of dead animals, smokes animal feces and cigarettes, and when asked to eat clean food and drink fresh water he becomes upset. He never had a wife. Lived single. Never use any drugs or medication or visit any clinic for over 65 years.  Today, he died age 94 years.  He had his name been recorded in the World Guniess book of Record