tested code, old and new. unless you've turned a head, caused a traffic accident death, abandon your modeling ambitions and continue your studies
celebrated a birthday with stolen flowers, hamburgers, karaoke. sometimes if you're nice to a woman, she will sing for you. she pinched my nose, asked me to repeat the portuguese. you dance like a north american. brazilians pronounce real like this. mysterious money, pictured folded twenty
read the penguin atlas of north american history to 1870 by colin mcevedy. humans arrived in north america before the chesapeake bay
chunkier peninsulas
the wisconsin glaciation - the geologists' term for the ice-cap at its final maximum
though we call them the olmecs we have no idea what they called themselves
year dates were calculated from a base-line equivalent to 3113 bc when the middle americans reckoned that the world as we know it had been created
the sun comes up whether you sacrifice virgins or not
glottochronology (the study of rates of differentiation within language groups)
fishing smacks
the french privateers were handicapped by the failure of their attempts to establish bases on the atlantic coast of north america. the first, charlesfort on parris island, south carolina, was abandoned within a few months of its foundation (1562). the second, fort caroline in northern florida, was wiped out by the spanish the year after it had been set up (1564-5). the episode prompted the spanish to establish forts of their own in the area, namely st augustine, florida, founded in 1565, which makes it the oldest continuously inhabited european settlement in north america, and st elena, on the site of charlesfort
the only practical line for a southern pacific railroad lay south of the gila river, in mexican territory. president pierce, anxious to accommodate the southern lobby, sent senator james gadsden to mexico city to see what could be done about this. the senator persuaded santa anna - currently president for the fifth time - to sell (for $15 million, later reduced to $10 million) and the gadsden purchase, as completed in 1854, brought the southern border of the united states to its present position
in 1800 the only city in the americas with more than 100,000 inhabitants was mexico city. by 1820 both new york and philadelphia were of the same order of magnitude. by 1870 new york was in a class of its own - well over the million mark and, on a world scale, outranked only by london and paris
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