No one is quite sure what the name of the first African on Bermuda is. The history of African slaves on Bermuda is a little sketchy. The first slaves are thought to have arrived in 1620, or thereabouts, but records weren’t kept well or were lost in storms and shipwrecks. There is no doubt that the slaves arrived around the same time as the British began their colony in Bermuda, though, ...
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Australia was originally a large continent used for prison by the British. Those early colonial early British, right? Australia was originally used as a prison because of its harsh conditions. It was a kind of life sentence but even the journey was harsh. Ships would be brought over overflowing with prisoners, and only about half would make the trip because of poor sanitary conditions and a ...
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A delta can be found where rivers empty into another body of water - such as a lake, an ocean, or a lagoon. They can also empty onto land, but this is much less common. Often, a delta is actually a wetland rather than a body of water or something of the kind. As a river gets closer to where it is going to empty out, it starts to move slower.
Sediment starts to collect at the bottom, ...
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This is what people call “movement across latitudes”. Latitude is the position on the earth in relation to the equator. Zero degrees latitude means that someone is at the equator. The higher the latitude - IE, the further away from the equator - one goes, the colder it gets. This is simply because the equator gets the most sunlight, and the further away one goes, the less sunlight ...
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One of the most interesting atolls is found in French Polynesia. It’s called Tikehau. The sands, depending on where on the beach one stands, can be pink or white. There’s one long strand of beach cresting one side of this particular atoll. The atoll is said to house more species of fish in its lagoon than any other in the French Polynesia chain.
An atoll, for those who ...
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The Great Pyramid of Giza is located in Egypt. This is actually the oldest of the pyramids in the area, and was built sometime around the fourth dynasty of Egypt, but no one is exactly sure when that occurred. Standing tall at 481 feet tall, it was the tallest man made structure for thousands of years. Out of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, this is the only one to remain largely ...
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The Australian bushfires of 2009 were in Victoria. They’re often called the Black Saturday bushfires because they blackened the sky with their smoke. A total of one hundred and seventy-three people died from these bushfires, and four hundred and fourteen others were injured. This is Australia’s highest loss in a bushfire incident. The events happened on February 7, 2009. Over one ...
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One would want to look in the map’s legend for the meanings of the symbols used on a map. The legend will typically have every symbol used on a map, and a quick description of what it is being used for. Most maps use a black dot, for instance, to indicate a city. Dashed lines typically indicate a railroad track. A black circle that isn’t filled in might be used to indicate a ...
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El Salvador is the Central American country with the smallest area. It is only 21,040 square kilometers, compared to Nicaragua’s 130,372 square kilometers. Due to the small area of the country, El Salvador is also the most densely populated country in Central America. The population, as of the most current census, is around 6.38 million people - with a good majority of those people ...
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North Dakota and South Dakota entered the United States of America on the same day. There was a dispute over the capital of the Dakota territory. The people in the north wanted it in one place, while the people in the south wanted it in another place. So, when they applied for stateship in 1889, they applied as North Dakota and South Dakota.
When the Dakota territory first came into ...
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