In 1871, the name of the province became Ibaraki, and in 1875 it became its current size, by annexing some districts belonging to the extinct Shimōsa Province. Kamitakatsu Shell Mound in Tsuchiura Paleolithic In Japanese Paleolithic, humans are believed to have started living in the present-...
Chinese who traded in Southeast Asia also began taking an East Sea Compass Course (dongyang zhenlu) that passed southwestern and southern Taiwan. Some of them traded with the Taiwanese aborigines. Taiwan was referred to as Xiaodong dao ("little eastern island") and Dahui guo ("the country of...
In the spring of 1882, Leslie rented a large white house in St Ives, Cornwall.[17][3] The family would spend three months each summer there for the first 13 years of Virginia's life.[18] Although the house had limited amenities, its main attraction was the view overlooking Porthminster ...
The deployed A-12s and the eight non-deployed aircraft were placed in storage at Palmdale. All surviving aircraft remained there for nearly 20 years before being sent to museums around the United States. On 20 January 2007, despite protests by Minnesota's legislature and volunteers who had ...
[4] In 1966, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, ruler of Cambodia, convinced of eventual communist victory in Southeast Asia and fearful for the future of his rule, had concluded an agreement with the People's Republic of China which allowed the establishment of permanent communist bases on Cambodian soil...
[22] By then, West Battery was renamed Fort Clinton in honor of New York City Mayor DeWitt Clinton (who eventually became Governor of New York). [11] [4] [20] The castle itself was converted to administrative headquarters for the Army. Simultaneously, at the end of the war, there was...