Why did the First Continental Congress meet? Why did Jamestown transition to a royal colony? Why was William Penn given land in the middle colonies? Why was South Carolina established as a colony? Why was Joseph Howe against the Canadian Confederation?
Why did the First Continental Congress meet? Why wasn't the Bill of Rights in the Constitution originally? Why was George Washington elected president of the Constitutional Convention? Why did the Whig party choose its name? Why did the Republican Party become strong in the South?
Most years, the season typically changes on March 20th or 21st. So, why did spring start a few hours earlier in 2024? First day of spring 2024 The reason the first day of spring was March 19 was because2024 is a leap year.Leap years are caused by Earth's rotation. A year is 365 ...
He did not mean, as per the Original American Foundation, individual rights, freedom, and property by which citizens might optimize their life and those of their chosen responsibility to rise above fear and misery to the extent possible. He meant that “something must be done” to give everyon...
Long before man learned how to build houses, he looked for natural shelters, as the animals did. He found that he could protect himself by climbing up into trees or by crouching under the over-hanging edges of cliffs, or by crawling into caves. The first shelters or homes actually built ...
And the weekend tribe did treat many of the residents with disdain and looked down on them. We just didn’t fit in. Many of the “transplant” students in my son’s class couldn’t wait to get out of the Catskills. They had not grown up there, and many had traveled and had life ...
Lewis and Clark were not the first white men to cross the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific north of Mexico. (Scottish fur trader Alexander Mackenzie crossed Canada a decade earlier.) Nor did they visit places not already seen and mapped by generations of native people. You could ev...
an agent with the American government who facilitated prisoner exchanges. Together, on September 5, 1814, they set out on the Chesapeake Bay, sailing on a flag-of-truce vessel to meet the Royal Navy. When they boarded the British flagship, the HMS Tonnant, the Navy agreed to release Dr...
Leaders did gather in Bangkok last year, but Biden skipped the summit because his granddaughter was getting married and he sent Vice President Kamala Harris in his place. That decision was regarded as a snub by some APEC leaders. Then, delegates from the United States and four other nations...
I first met Gerald almost ten years ago. I finally attended an Innovation Workshop and all I can say is "wow, why did I wait so long!" Conducted in the perfect setting, the THINKubator, the workshop is a magical experience. Being a marketing professional, it is my job to be creative...