Africa

In 1903, Britain proposed that Jewish settlers establish a state in East Africa (present-day Kenya)—the Uganda Scheme. The Zionist Congress rejected the offer in 1905, and Israel was ultimately founded in the Middle East.

In 1822, a stork was found in Germany with an African spear in its neck. It had flown from Africa wounded, providing decisive evidence that migratory birds travel between continents. Germans call such birds 'Pfeilstorch' (arrow stork).