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Wilderness Settings for Assassin’s Creed III Guarantee Fresh Experience

The development team believes that moving the core mechanics of the Assassin’s Creed series to a forested setting will inject innovation for the series and will deliver a fresh experience for the fan base. Speaking to GameInformer, Alex Hutchinson, who is the creative director working on Assassin’s Creed...

7 March 2012
04:14 GMT

Xperia X1 Has Selected India as Its Next Market

After taking the Xperia X1 to Europe almost two weeks ago, Sony Ericsson has now decided that India would be a favorable market for one of its most popular models. This phone brings an elegant combination of multimedia features and web browsing experience to the newly chosen receivers.Besides the pretty relevant feat...

24 November 2008
08:40 GMT

The Indians Of the Orinoco

Until 1951, nobody knew the source of the Orinoco River. Accumulating continuously torrents and rivers, Orinoco grows gradually while heading northward through the territory of Venezuela on over 2,000 km (1,250 mi) of thick jungle. In some places, the waters of Orinoco are as big as those of the Amazon and discharge ...

11 April 2008
17:51 GMT

Who Are the Cuna People?

The Cuna Indians inhabit the San Blas Archipelago, a group of 300 islets located off the Caribbean coast of Panama, on a length of 150 km (95 mi). Only the 50 largest islands are inhabited. The maximum height of the islands is of 200 m (666 ft) and they are covered by lush tropical forests. But, despite their beauty,...

10 March 2008
12:33 GMT

Jivaro: The Tribe of the Shrunken Heads

The Jivaro are amongst the most famous tribes of the Amazon area, due to their habits of shrinking the heads of the enemies killed in war. The Jivaro tribes inhabit an area larger than Switzerland on the eastern slopes of the Andes, in Ecuador, Brazil and Peru, in one of the densest rain forests. The Jivaro villages ...

29 February 2008
16:31 GMT

Who Were the Araucans?

The Araucans are Amerindian tribes (Mapuche, Picunche, Huiliche) habiting the Arauco area in the center of Chile which nowadays make the most of the Indigenous population in Chile. Arauco is a long valley limited by the Andes to the east, with altitudes of up to 6,000 m (20,000 ft) and by coastal low mountains to the...

15 February 2008
17:31 GMT

This Is The Lost World: Roraima

The name Tepui ("house of gods") comes from the language of the Pemon Indians and refers to the table-top mountain encountered only in the Guayana highlands of northern South America. Tepuis are isolated mountains, rising abruptly from the rain forest or savanna, and not forming chains, things that makes them have of...

15 February 2008
08:52 GMT

What Are the Totems?

The word "totem" comes from the Ojibwa, an Algonquin language from the north of the Great Lakes of North America. "Ototeman" would mean "he is of my clan". The totem would express the belonging to a clan. Totem was an animal or plant, rarely an object, believed by a tribe to be its ancestor or protector, and therefo...

31 January 2008
07:27 GMT

Some Real Facts about Native Americans

Their legends say that they were created from earth, water and stars. DNA says they came from Siberia to what is now Alaska, Canada and US, through a land bridge called Behringia, about 15,000 years ago. Older western movies depicted them as wild and cruel. But in fact, they were victims of the intrusion in their te...

12 January 2008
03:37 GMT

The Clash of Two Cultures: Native Americans and White People

Their legends say they were created from earth, water and stars. DNA says they came in what is now Alaska, Canada, US coming from Siberia through a land bridge called Behringia. Older western movies depicted them as wild and cruel. But in fact they were victims of the entrance in their territory of the greediest pred...

27 November 2007
18:18 GMT

Largest Pre-Columbian Site in the Caribbean Has Been Found

This is the major archaeological discovery of a pre-Columbian site made in the Caribbean - the Taino or pre-Taino site in southern Puerto Rico comes with fresh info on the Indian life in the area before the arrival of Columbus, from sacred rituals to eating habits. Tainos were the first Indians that Columbus met duri...

29 October 2007
04:33 GMT

Embarrassing: Police Site Hacked!

I for one didn't expect to see this! I mean, why would anyone hack a Police site? It's like stealing a doughnut from a cop and expect not to get cuffed! It's preposterous! What these guys have done is not only something one could have never imagined, but also a total mockery of the Police. But enough r...

10 October 2007
05:08 GMT

Indians on Top Again!

I'm sure you're familiar with the fact that the site belonging to the Bank of India has recently been hacked and infected with a lot of malware. It has been said by Sunbelt experts that the Russian Business Network is behind all this. In any case, the attacks have ceased, the page has been "repaired" and is...

4 September 2007
10:39 GMT


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