Since World War II, economic development has been consciously stimulated by government policy, and state subsidies have been granted to attract industry and services toward the relatively underdeveloped north and certain other pockets of economic stagnation. Despite these subsidies, the western part of ...
Almost as I crossed the state line into North Carolina with my new totem, a light drizzle began to fall. Bythe time I reached home it was raining, the first real rain in more than a month. Rain fell on six of the next seven days. Coincidence? Well, yes, probably. But I have ta...
Aleut- a community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska; "the Aleut and the Eskimo are related culturally and linguistically" AK,Alaska,Last Frontier- a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the...
detailed in Fig.2. The timing of the inferred 11th century event was stable across Dutch fineSTRUCTURE clusters (to varying degrees of confidence), suggesting that the signal represents an important period in the establishment of the modern Dutch genome (Table1); however, given the state of demo...
Gehring, director of the New Netherland Research Center at the New York State Library. “It’s a totally inaccurate figure.” He pointed out that the trade goods, such as iron kettles and axes, were invaluable to the Native Americans since they couldn’t produce those things themselves. More...
The sense in of the adjective in English narrowed to "of the Netherlands" in 17c., after they became a united, independent state and the focus of English attention and rivalry. In Holland,Duits(formerlyduitsch) is used of the people of Germany. The old use ofDutchfor "German" continued ...
The Aleuts were initially resistant to the arrival of Russian explorers in 1759, but it soon became clear the intruders were here to stay. Unalaska became the Russians first permanent Alaskan settlement. They held power until the Americans purchased the territory of Alaska in 1867. ...
So in the spirit of America’s birthday, here are some aspects of Dutch life that may inspire my fellow Americans to help live their best life: An Effective Model Healthcare System According to the most recent ranking of healthcare systems conducted by the Commonwealth Fund, the Netherlands ...
We are obsessed. Hooked. My husband, Doug, and I bought a boat in the Netherlands in 2001, and we spend five months a year cruising the waterways of Europe.
Special Issue: Immigrant Adaptation and Native-Born Responses in the Making of Americans || Strangers to the Constitution: Immigrants, Borders, and Fundame... Reports that voters in France and the Netherlands voted against the proposed European constitution. Statement that the constitution would have ...