In 1607, English colonists went ashore at present-day Cape Henry, Virginia, on an expedition to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere. In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded by federal troops near Port Royal, Virg...
Gardening in America can be traced as far back as the year 1565, when Spaniards settled in St. Augustine, Florida, and brought plants from Spain and novelties from the West Indies. Years later, in 1607, English colonists settled in Virginia and named their colony Jamestown. They brought seeds...
History Today| Published inHistory TodayVolume 69 Issue 8 August 2019 Orpheus and Eurydice, hand in hand, walk away from the fiery underworld and its deities, Pluto and Proserpine. Orpheus, singer, musician and poet, carrying a lyre on his shoulder, had recently married Eurydice, but on the ...
“Metasemiosis” consists in the awareness which the human animal, in using signs as every animal must, achieves with the intellectual realization thatthe being proper to signsconsists in triadic relations, invisible as relations to sense perception, transcending every subjective boundary, and upon w...
Edwards was remembered as an eloquent preacher who also designed the first plan for a comprehensive union of Baptists in America.Women have played an important part in Baptist history. Some are well known, such as Ann Hasseltine Judson and Lottie Moon. Others are not as well known...
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He was granted citizenship after writing a letter to the Captains Regent in 1861, praising San Marino and writing about how honored their state has been throughout history. Their regular postal service is ancient The paid postal service was established in 1607, while the Republic's first postage...
Founded in 1607 at Jamestown under a 1606 charter from King James I, this joint-stock venture aimed for profit—gold, trade, and later tobacco—not moral reform. Its settlers, a mix of Anglican adventurers, merchants, and laborers, relied on alcohol (beer and spirits) as a staple, given ...
Our Puritan ancestors who came to the New World in 1620 were in many respects the product of their own time. They understood that the Jamestown Colony of 1607 almost failed due to social and political order breakdown. The early Puritan authoritarianism was partly an attempt to avoid the ...
For more information, contact Sarah Penrod at 877-1607. R.I.P. PAUL DOLAN Paul Dolan has died. He was a leader in biodynamic farming and regenerative organic - truly regenerative - farming. He was a revolutionary. He put forth the simple but powerful management principles that enabled Fetzer...