A hundred or so French fur traders set up small outposts in the Great Lakes region. A few thousand Spanish settled in New Mexico and California. The first successful English settlement was at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, followed in 1620 by the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts, ...
Massachusetts, campus was turned over to the American army in 1775 to house some 1,600 soldiers (which was greater than the entire population of Cambridge at the time). Students were transferred to a campus in the nearby city of Concord, which is about 20 miles...
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Over 40 fun, hands-on projects and activities from the days ofcolonial America\nSpend a year with the Mayhews, a family living in the Massachusettscolony of 1732. Ten-year-old Nathan and his twelve-year-old sister,Sarah, are eager to share all the fun and adventure--and the hardwork-...
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, then a British colony. His father came to the Colonies from Englandin 1682. He was a candle and soap maker in Boston. Before becoming involved in politics, Franklin learned the printing trade in Boston and eventually set up his own printing...
Little is known about his life, but according to Biography.com, it is believed that he had reportedly been captured earlier in life by a captain commissioned by Plymouth Company who was exploring the coast of Maine and Massachusetts and was brought back to England, where he learned English. ...
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El Salvador has a population of 6.4 million in an area slightly smaller than the state of Massachusetts (or Wales). This fact makes El Salvador the most densely populated country in the Americas. Fact #5 El Salvador was part of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1823 to 1841. He...
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The other kind of class of birds is quite different where we can get quite an accurate number is, say, colonial seabirds, which nest in very compact colonies in the open, as in open islands or rocky cliffs. So think about gannets or terns or gulls or something like that. These are col...