Leif Erikson, sometimes spelledEriksson, is believed to have been the first European to discover and explore the North American continent. A Norse adventurer, Erikson made his way to Vinland, on the coast of what is now Newfoundland, and may have gone even further into the North American inter...
Pensacola offers residents great proximity to some world-renowned beaches, historic sites, and nightlife. The area, founded in 1559, stands as on of the first European settlement in the New World. Downtown Pensacola features block after block lined with shops, eateries, and pubs. #49. Pacifica...
Native Americans lived in the area that became Pennsylvania hundreds of years before European settlers entered the region. The two primary groups were the Algonkian and Iroquois. Algonkian tribes included the Delaware, Nanticoke, and Shawnee. The Susquehannocks were an Iroquoian tribe that lived ...
Established in 1975, VOICEcorps is the only service of its kind in central Ohio that helps people living with blindness, low vision, or another disability that prevents them from reading printed materials. There is no fee to use the service. VOICEcorps operates a 24-hour radio station, a li...
Built in Ohio in 1915, it was rebuilt by CCF in Montreal in 1926 after a fire, served London into 1957, was a work car into 1963, then joined the museum in 1971. The museum guidebook points out that few such cars survive. How so? They were so solidly built that they proved “...
Offoha, Marcellina Ulunm.Educated Nigerian Settlers in the United States: The Phenomenon of Brain Drain.Philadelphia, Temple University, 1989. Shepard, Robert B.Nigeria, Africa, and the United States: From Kennedy to Reagan.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. ...
analysts attribute this lack of group movement to the humane climate of France, while others claim that in general the French are reluctant to organize into groups. As a result, the number of immigrants to the United States from France has always been smaller than from other European countries...
Because eastern plows could not penetrate the densely tangled roots of prairie grass, the earliest settlers erected farms along the boundary separating the forest from the prairie. In 1837, however, John Deere patented a sharp-cutting steel plow that sliced through the sod without soil sticking to...
John and Lucretia Oliver were amongthe earliest settlersof Cades Cove, arriving in 1818. This rustic log cabin, nestled in the Smoky Mountains, dates to the 1850s and was built as a future home for their son.Inhabited by the Oliver family for a century, the National Park Service eventually...
1章练习题 Fill in the blanks. Among the members of the small band of Jamestown settlers was , an English soldier of fortune, whose reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinct American literature written in English. 【答案】Captain John Smith...