uncharted Louisiana territory in order to gather information about living organisms that inhabited the land, a water route from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean that could be used for commerce, the natives who lived there, and the land in general. Lewis is known not only as a brave explorer but also as an excellent marksman, a governor, and a public figure. After a life filled with adventure and greatness, Meriwether Lewis died on October 11, 1809. Most historians believe his death was a suicide
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2.3.1 Types of cannibalism and their staging in modern movies Human beings have got the property to categorize everything from the self-created inventions to human patterns of behavior to maintain a sorted overview, as well as to establish a better understanding. This is not any different with cannibalism. It is likely that we break down even one of the scariest thoughts of human imagination into comprehensible categories, so we can analyze and understand such actions better. Not only a way was
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Hill grounds, a view into slave life in the one remaining slave quarter on the site, and stunningly manicured gardens. Linking the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi Rivers, the Natchez Trace is a historic forest trail used by Native Americans, early European explorers, and American emigrants and traders through the early 19th century. The 444-mile Parkway and Bridge includes the burial site and a bronze bust of Meriwether Lewis. 2. Upper Cumberland Wine Trail Let the Upper Cumberland Wine Trail
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England’s wealthy people including Sir Walter Raleigh were devoted to improve England’s power and economy. They wanted to terminate starvation, poverty, and the increase of the population. Those promoters sent poor people to improve the colonies and mine for gold and silver. Acquiring a charter, they established a joint-stock company organized and ruled by them. Their first trial of colonizing the Island of Roanoke failed. The Virginia Company sent the English to the Chesapeake Bay where
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Johanna Perez The Long March It began in 1838 a long line of Cherokee Indians Trudged through the Georgia countyside. These Native Americans were heading for the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. It was not the Cherokees that chose to make, this long, difficult and kaotic trip. The U.S government forced them out of their homes and set them on this long and disturbing journey. A few Indians traveled by water. Most traveled by land. Woman carried their babies and the sick and elderly
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Terms: 1. Bering strait- a strait between Alaska and the Russian Federation in Asia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean 2. Primogeniture- the state of being the firstborn child. 3. Charter- a document issued by a government that gives rights to a person or group 4. Mayflower compact- an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower. 5. Indentured servant- a person who came to America and was placed under contract to
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Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States. He was born on April 13th, 1743 into one of the most prominent families of Virginia’s planters elite. Jefferson began his formal education at the age of nine, studying Latin and Greek at a local private school run by the Reverend William Douglas. In 1757, at the age of fourteen, he took up further study of the classical languages as well as literature and mathematics. Later, the Anti-Federalist was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses
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Creating Competition in the Market for Operating Systems: A Structural Remedy for Microsoft Thomas M. Lenard, Ph.D. Vice President for Research The Progress & Freedom Foundation January 2000 ©Copyright 2000, The Progress & Freedom Foundation. All rights reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY iii I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. MICROSOFT’S OPERATING SYSTEM MONOPOLY 3 III. NEW MARKET DEVELOPMENTS 5 A. America Online/Netscape
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The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States (US), America, or simply the States, is a federal republic[10][11] consisting of 50 states, 16 territories, a federal district, and various overseas extraterritorial jurisdictions. The 48 contiguous states and the federal district of Washington, D.C. are in central North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is the northwestern part of North America and the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific
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“British history has been a history of invasion.” Please illustrate this point. – 1st century AD (43): Briton was invaded by the Roman Empire → found valuable metals → decided to settle down. – 4th century AD: invasion of a group of barbaric people over the Europe. The Romans had to return to Rome to protect their own country. – 5th century AD (410): Anglo–Saxon invasion – Germanic peoples: the Anglos, the Saxons. They were powerful. → They divided the country into 2 parts:
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