And with all the accompanying extra dialogue, this book could keep young readers occupied for a longer period of time! But what I liked most about this book was the way it takes its time with the story, as thoug
No estimates have been found of the percentage of peatlands globally that are composed of peat forests and shrub (e.g., heath) swamps, but it seems likely that they occupy as much or more area as is occupied by nonpeatland swamps. Thus, a reasonable estimate is that swamps (wooded ...
Greenland still belonged to Denmark, which was occupied by Germany. The Americans then took over the task of supplying the settlements in Greenland, as this could no longer be secured by the Danes. In addition, the Americans were able to establish strongpoints here in order to defeat the ...
Likewise, the American military—which has occupied bases in Greenland since America invaded it in April of 1940 without a declaration of war against Denmark—has not endeared itself to Greenlanders, with Inuits in two villages being forcibly relocated to make room for one base and a case of...
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Rhode Island's historic Brown University has partly delivered on an agreement to return tribal land to the Pokanoket people, who occupied much of this area long before European settlers arrived here. The Ivy League university and the Pokanoket Tribe reached an agreement in September 2017, ending...
In Canada, the Norse are believed to have landed on Baffin Island, Labrador, and Newfoundland, and all of those areas were occupied by the Dorset, Thule, and Point Revenge cultures at about that time. Unfortunately, radiocarbon dates are not precise enough to pinpoint the timing of which ...
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Access to land in Mexico was constructed over a turbulent and often violent series of events. Under the colonial regime, land was grabbed from the native indigenous communities by an elite that concentrated the land in large estates. While agriculture was booming at the turn of the XXth century...
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