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 For a hundred years, following the "discovery" of the New World by Christopher Columbus, the Spanish were satisfied conquering and exploiting South America, Central America and Mexico before they finally got around to establishing Santa Fe on the North American continent. Interestingly, at about that same time the British and French were also establishing a toehold in North America with Jamestown and Quebec respectively. This Smithsonian site explores the three new colonies within the perspective of the times.
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Saturday, December 22 2007 @ 10:48 PM PST |
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Here is a link to some interesting statistics for the United States in 1905. It really hasn't been that long ago has it? Some examples.
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The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.
- Only 14% of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.
- Only 8% of the homes had a telephone.
- A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost 11 Dollars.
- There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads.
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| An interesting article that describes a map that is supposed to be the first map to use the name America for the New World. The map has been obtained by the Library of Congress and is about to go on display.
There is some controversy surrounding the map because some of the information that is presented should not have been discovered yet. Very interesting. You can read the discussion at the Link
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| If you like to read your history as it happened you might be interested in this. The British Library has digitized its 19th century newspaper collection and put it on line. At this point it appears to have only been made available to the UK educational community but I assume it will be made available to the public eventually, probably for a fee. Follow this link to check it out.
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The link below is to an article that discusses one of the terrible prices that we and our progeny will all pay for the Iraq War. There is no way to restore these lost treasures.
[Link - The Independent]
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Hardly anybody can resist the mystery of Stonehenge. I was in England a couple of years ago and didn't manage to get to Stonehenge and I am really sorry. But lately, there has been news coming from the ancient places on the Salisbury Plain. National Geographic researchers have unearthed the remains of a large settlement near Stonehenge that dates from about the same time and appears to be related to the site. This will be a good story to watch. It sounds like there are a lot of artifacts to look at. Talk about a cold case.
[Link: New York Times]
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Sunday, January 07 2007 @ 09:44 PM PST |
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Starting to put the list together for top events of the year. I will publish it when I have a good Beta version. If anybody has any favorites for that list, let me know. It is always a good exercise to examine the old year before heading off into the new year.
UPDATE: After the fold I have listed what I think are the most important events and deaths of last year. Please feel free to correct me if you disagree with any of my selections or, more importantly, if you think I have missed something.
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Thursday, November 30 2006 @ 03:23 PM PST |
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It seems like the recent 2006 elections revealed a change in the voting patterns that we have been witnessing for the past decade or so. Some of the trends seem tied to the new reality in Iraq and some are clearly dissatisfaction with the Republican stewardship but one trend is interesting in that it seemed to indicate a shift of the younger generation towards the Democrats. Are the millenials beginning to show their colors? They are still a very small part of the electorate, they even don't represent a large part of the young voting bloc, but they are likely to make an impression when they start getting interested. It will probably be more obvious in the 2008 presidential elections.
[Link: Generation Dem Salon.com]
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| Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I hope you have a great holiday.
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