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...accounts, together with her sister, Trung Nhi, she successfully repelled the Chinese from their village. Then, with the assistance of neighbours they put together a large army, made up largely of women, which drove the Chinese out of Vietnam. This event is still celebrated today. The following year, in 40 A.D. the sisters were made queens and successfully resisted Chinese...

...accounts in particular: Francis Edgar Williams’ ethnographic account of the so-called Valaila Madness (1923) and David Attenborough’s representation of the followers of John Frum in the BBC film, The People of Paradise: A Journey through the South Seas (1960). The construction of various structures including buildings but also flagpoles said to be for communicating...

...account of drug addiction. It influenced not just generations of narcoticized writers but even medical opinion on the effects of opium for decades after its publication. In the Georgian era of 1821, opium – in the form of laudanum - was as ubiquitous as ale or spirits. Thomas De Quincey was the first writer to openly celebrate its effects, not purely in medicinal terms...