A country of southern Africa on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Originally inhabited by the San and Khoikhoi, the region was settled by various Bantu peoples c. 1500. European settlement began with the Dutch in the mid-1600s. The region passed to Great Britain in 1814 but was hotly contest...
which above all other factors distinguished the South from other U.S. regions. By 1790,Black peopleconstitutedabout one-third of the Southern population and almost the entire workforce on the plantations. At the beginning of theAmerican Civil War(1861), more than four million Black people remaine...
South America - Indigenous, Cultures, Diversity: Four main components have contributed to the present-day population of South America—American Indians (Amerindians), who were the pre-Columbian inhabitants; Iberians (Spanish and Portuguese who conquered
Black sexual minority men (BSMM) (e.g., gay, bisexual, queer) continue to bear a disproportionate burden of HIV in the United States (US), with the highest incidence and prevalence in the southern region of the country [1]. In the Southern region of the US, generally, only 52% of ...
South Carolina Statue Honoring Black Hero Robert Smalls Will Stare Down a Segregationist A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist ...
The majority of its position lies within the Southern Hemisphere, and geographers designate it as a subcontinent of the Americas. ThePacific Oceanborders South America to the west, and theAtlantic Oceanborders it to the east. The Caribbean Sea and the North American continent lie to the ...
The South American Lostbelt (南米異聞帯, Nanbei Ibuntai?), designated Order Lostbelt No. 7 (ロストベルト No. 7?), is one of the seven Lostbelts appearing on the blankened Earth during the Human Order Revision incident. Originating in an unknown period, its Lost Depth is A++, its ...
I finished A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton (wonderful – about the aftermath of the Nagasaki bombing) and The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns (about all the mixed-race babies born to Japanese women from American servicemen after WWII). I’ve got plenty of ...
“Rhinal absorption [snuff] of intoxicants is widespread [Anadenanthera beans, coca leaves, Virola resin, and many nicotianas] on the subcontinent and represents, apparently, a peculiarly American custom which, together with tobacco, spread to the Old World in post-Columbian times.” In South Am...
A system of perioceanic downwarps associated with the formation of the ocean basin (beginning in the Cretaceous period) developed along the Atlantic coast of South America. Grabens and semigrabens are filled with continental, salt-bearing, and marine Cretaceous deposits. The Cenozoic era is ...