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.
Voltaireâs (1694-1778) Essay on the Customs and the Spirit of the Nations (1756), wherein the phrase âphilosophy of historyâ is supposed to have been coined, was the first attempt since Herodotus to write a comprehensive history of world culture in a non-Christian and non-teleological framework.