Understanding the Yellowstone Continental Divide
Driving between Old Faithful and West Thumb, you twice pass signs identifying the Continental Divide. This makes it dicult to understand the concept of the divide or to visualize …
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Hell and the Devil in Yellowstone
The first observers of Yellowstone Park’s features were often reminded of the Prince of Darkness and his abode. As historian Aubrey L. Haines writes in Yellowstone Place Names: Mirrors …
Casa Guadalupe Center
Casa Guadalupe is a nonprofit, community-based organization established in 1969 to meet the needs of Latino residents in the Lehigh Valley. It offers services for children, youth, adults, and …
New Mexico Metro Map
New Mexico historical overview New Mexico was born in Zacatecas, the colonial silver city in Mexico. Don Juan de Onate the man credited with claiming New Mexico for the …
Holiday in New Mexico
New Mexico Food Chile is the most noted component of Nuevomexicano cuisine, if only for its prominence and intensity. It is not clear when chiles were introduced to New …
Puritan Theology
One of the hallmarks of Puritanism is the theological theme of transformation. At the center of the Puritan idea was the impetus to transform the Church of England by …
America Guide Tourist
In addition, the Virginia Company initiated a program called headright, which offered fifty acres of land to emigrants who could pay their own passage and an additional fifty acres …
Powhatan c. 1540–1618
Powhatan was the most powerful man in eastern Virginia, or Tsenacommacah, when Jamestown was founded there in 1607. Powhatan was the father of Pocahontas and the brother of Opechancanough, …
Latin American BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bean, Frank D., and Marta Tienda. The Hispanic Population of the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1988. Office of Latino Affairs, District of Columbia. http://ola.dc.gov/ola/site/default.aspFolaNav. Portes, Alejandro, …
Puerto Rico Maps
As one of the first areas of the New World to be discovered by Spain, Puerto Rico has a long and complex colonial history. Christopher Columbus’s party landed on …