Around the 1860s, Peter purchased a bushel of apple seeds from a grower named Albert Emerson in Bangor, Maine. The apple seeds were planted, and years later, all the seedling trees had died except for one. The tree was initially thought to be of Siberian crab apple descent, but over ...
Mountainsthat run from Georgia to Maine. Connecticut’s Western Upland is also home to the state’s highest peak — Mount Frissell — which rises to more than 2,380 feet (725.42 meters) in northwestern Connecticut, although its summit is in neighboring Massachusetts.[1] As you would expect i...
When they were removed in 1986 - by which time the White House had also pulled funding for renewable energy in the US - the panels were sent to Unity College in Maine and installed in 1991. They remained there until 2010, after which they were placed in storage, gifted, or resto...
New Hampshire is bordered by Massachusetts and Vermont to the south and west, respectively; Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east; and Quebec (Canada) to the north. The state is roughly 70 miles wide from east to west and extends approximately 190 miles from north to south. With a tot...
They Have Long Fur Coats: Maine Coons are well known for their stunning double fur coats. Because of the long hair, they are likely to groom themselves a lot, shed more, and hold on to the protein for extended periods.Image Credit: Olga Korvinuss, Shutterstock How...
A visit to Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial is a deeply moving experience One of the most significant historical facts about Oahu involves the WW II site,Pearl Harbor. Located west of Honolulu, Pearl Harbor receives between 1.5 and 1.7 millionvisitorsevery year. ...
Slightly smaller than Maine, Austria includes much of the mountainous territory of the eastern Alps (about 75% of the area). The country contains many snowfields, glaciers, and snowcapped peaks, the highest being the Grossglockner (12,530 ft; 3,819 m). The Danube is the principal river....
MaineThe half-submerged battleship USSMainein the harbour of Havana, 1900. In the fall of 1897 a new Spanish ministry offeredconcessionsto the insurgents. It would recall General Weyler, abandon his reconcentration policy, and allowCubaan electedcortes(parliament) with limited powers of self-gover...
six days after the appearance of the Dupuy de Lôme letter, the American battleship USSMainesuddenly exploded and sank as it sat anchored inHavanaharbor, carrying 266 enlisted men and officers to their deaths. Although a mid-20th century investigation proved conclusively that theMainewas destroyed...
The Spanish-American War, which lasted only sixteen weeks in 1898, was sparked when the USS Maine exploded while at anchor in Havana, Cuba. Newspapers practicing yellow journalism stoked the event into a crisis. War was declared on April 21, and the United States sent troops to Spanish-held...