1 The pyramids of the Aztecs were very similar to those of the Maya. 2  The main difference was that the Aztec would sometimes build more than one temple on the top of a pyramid. 3  Many times new pyramids were built on top of old pyramids.
Broomhilda von Shaft is possibly the only character in movie history inspired by both German opera and blaxploitation cinema. Her namesake is Wagner's Brunnhilde, the valkyrie whom Siegfried awakens from a fire-ringed deep sleep.
Casimir Pulaski was a talented military leader and brilliant battlefield tactician who, in the 1770s, had to leave his native Poland after participating in the unsuccessful wars to oust StanisÅaw II, a king put in place to rule at the behest of the Russians.