Ethan Allen was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, educated locally and saw brief service in the French and Indian War. The Allen brothers were active land speculators and played a central role in this protracted territorial dispute.In 1770, Ethan Allen and Seth Warner formed the Green Mountain Boys, a group of rough-and-tumble frontiersmen who opposed settlers in their area with loyalties to New York.
It is well documented that Franklin was interested in tofu, which he called a sort of cheese made from beans, and he got a recipe for making it that he sent on to others. But no source that I have…
In South Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is sworn in as the first Black president of South Africa. In his inaugural address, Mandela, who spent 27 years of his life as a political prisoner of the South African government, declared that “the time for the healing of the wounds has come.” Two weeks earlier, more than 22 million South Africans had turned out to cast ballots in the country’s first-ever multiracial parliamentary elections.
On Monday, June 17, an advance team of excavators from the Atapuerca Research Team began preparing the infrastructures in the deposits of the Sierra de Atapuerca. The works directed by Juan Luis Arsuaga, José María Bermúdez de Castro and Eudald Carbonell, will have the collaboration, during this month of June, of some 80 people who will excavate at the Sima del Elefante, Galería, Gran Dolina, Cueva Fantasma, ─all of them located in the Railroad Trench─ and in the Cueva del Mirador.
During the year the flow of migrant and asylum seekers to the country from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia continued, albeit in much lower numbers than in the two previous years. The March 2016 EU-Turkey Statement, combined with the closing of the northern borders, turned the country into a host country for migrant and refugee populations.
Although with many pending subjects and the perpetual demand for an increase in investments, it is necessary to recognize that the Andalusian historical heritage is going through a series of achievements that proves the undeniable potential of its enclaves and monuments. In 2016, without going any further, the Organization of the United Nations for Education, Science and Culture (Unesco for its acronym in English) declared as a World Heritage Site the archaeological complex of the dolmens of Antequera (Málaga), made up of the megalithic constructions of Menga, Viera and El Romeral, and in 2018 the ruins of the old palatial city of Medina Azahara, built in the 10th century by the Umayyad dynasty as the seat of the Caliphate of Córdoba, received the same seal.
Resolute V(SP-3003: dp. 7.8;1. 36& 39;; b. 7& 39;9& 34;; dr. 2& 39;6& 34;; s. 10 k.)The fifth Resolute, a motorboat built as a private boat during 1913 at the yard of Robert Jacob, City Island, N.Y., was acquired in 1918 for the U.S. Navy from her owner, George A. Cormack of New York. Resolute seryed her entire career as a tender carried on board the transport Mount T7ernon (SP1466, q.
