Why did southern states enact poll taxes? Why did Texas become a state? Why was Charleston an important city to the South? Why is Hawaii a state? Why were the founders of the Plymouth Colony called Pilgrims? Why did Texas join the Confederacy?
“flyover state”是美国英语中的一个词条，指那些位于东西海岸(发达)城市之间的中部州，类似于“那鸟不拉屎的地儿，我们每次坐飞机都是直接飞过去停都不停的”，可见满满的鄙夷、蔑视感。当然，有时候也是中性表达，仅仅指一个地方比较偏僻（社会发达程度、知名度方面，而非地理位置上），好多美国人只...
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After 1720, tens of thousands of Scots-Irish settled in Pennsylvania and in the southern backcountry. For the next thirty years or so, they radiated westward across the Alleghenies, as well as southwestward into Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, where ...
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South Carolina's nickname is the easier of the two: It is the Palmet-to(矮棕榈) State because of a fan-leafed palm tree that grows there. North Carolina is the Tar Heel State (焦油脚跟州).That is because many of the men who worked to gather substances from trees wore no shoes. ...
In His Image, But…: Racism in Southern Religion, 1780–1910. By H. Shelton Smith. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1972. x + 318 pp. $8.50 Both Eighmy and Hill adopt a rigid but dubious line of demarcation between issues of "personal morality" and social issues so that...
Fifteen years ago, I took a summer vacation in Lecce in southern Italy. After climbing up a hill for a panoramic(全景的) view of the blue sea, white buildings and green olive trees, I paused to catch my breath and then positioned myself to take the best photo of this panorama. Unfortu...
North Carolina: Tail of the Dragon at Deals Gap Searching for a blood-tingling section of asphalt? With 316 hairpin curves in only 11 miles, theTail of the Dragonhas the thills that serious drivers dream about. This roadway isn’t about its woodland scenery—it’s about the road itself....
Southerners can be perplexing to outsiders and amusing to themselves. North Carolina native Mary Norton Kratt deftly and simply delights the reader with verbal images of the Southern state of mind and being. A warm and whimsical book that will be bought and enjoyed on both sides... (展开...