By Sisi Styles El Salvador was inhabited by Paleo-Indian peoples as early as 10, 000 years ago, and their intriguing paintings (the earliest of which date from 8000 BC) can still be seen and marveled at in caves outside the towns of Corinto and Cacaopera, both in Morazan. In 1524, Pedro de Alvarado, a Spanish conquistador sent by Hernán Cortés from Mexico, invaded El Salvador. After being forced to retreat by Amerindian resistance, he returned in 1525, defeated the Pipil and founded Sonsonate...
Saturday, 27 February 2016
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By Denny White Djibouti is a country located in the eastern part of Africa. The history of Djibouti is also characterized by ethnic conflicts and civil war and the French domination that forms an important part of the nation's history. Djibouti was acquired by France between 1843 and 1886 through treaties with the Somali sultans. Small, arid, and sparsely populated, it is important chiefly because of the capital city's port, the terminal of the Djiboutiâ€"Addis Ababa railway that carries 60%...
Friday, 26 February 2016
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By Pit Bored Before Christopher Columbus arrived, the indigenous TaÃnos (meaning 'Friendly People') lived on the island now known as Hispaniola. TaÃnos gave the world sweet potatoes, peanuts, guava, pineapple, and tobacco - even the word 'tobacco' is TaÃno in origin. Yet the TaÃnos themselves were wiped out by Spanish diseases and slavery. Of the 400, 000 TaÃnos that lived on Hispaniola at the time of European arrival, fewer than 1000 were still alive 30 years later. None exists today. ...
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By James Johns Czechs are West Slavs, as are Poles and Slovaks. The capital Prague is often called The Heart of Europe as it is located in the middle of the Continent. There are over 10,5 million people in the Czech Republic and about 1,3 million people in Prague. The western part of the Czech Republic is called Bohemia, eastern Moravia, northeastern part Silesia. At the beginning of the 20th century, Bohemia was still part of the Habsburg Empire (Austrian Empire). After World War I the republic...
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By Collin Gregor The history of Curacao spans back over five thousand years. Naturally that is why we cannot go too far into the details of everything that happened in the last five millenniums, but we shall give you a Birdseye view of the most important facts and happenings that have taken place in the history of Curacao which has formed Curacao to the tropical paradise as we know it today. In 1954, the Dutch Antilles were provided with their own autonomous government and once again in the...
Thursday, 25 February 2016
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By Sebastian Needle Egypt is one of the cradles of civilization in the Middle East. Traces of early man were found in Egypt dating back as early as 700,000 years ago. Egypt and ancient Canaan to the north probably served as the bridges by which successive waves of humans: homo Erectus, homo habilis, homo neanderthal enosis and homo sapiens, evidently migrated out of Africa and into Mesopotamia and Europe. A predominantly Sunni Muslim country, Egypt has Islam as its state religion. A genuine...
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By Adam Bright Denmark may be officially considered the happiest nation on earth, according to a 2006 survey, but it is not without its problems. The last few years have been turbulent ones â€" by Danish standards anyway â€" in the social and political realms. A mere speck on the globe, tiny Demark might seem an afterthought of a nation at Europe’s continental margins but it has been a major player in the shaping of the region, with influences on and contributions to the progress of European...
Saturday, 20 February 2016
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By Darrel White The history of Cuba began with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the subsequent invasion of the island by the Spaniards. Aboriginal groups-the Guanahatabey, Ciboney, and TaÃno-inhabited the island but were soon eliminated or died as a result of diseases or the shock of conquest. In addition to disease, the Spanish and French settlers who followed brought with them sugar cane and later slaves; both sugar and Cubans of African descent continue to help define the...
Thursday, 18 February 2016
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By Bred Folkins Croatia is a former Yugoslav republic on the Adriatic Sea. It is about the size of West Virginia. Part of Croatia is a barren, rocky region lying in the Dinaric Alps. The Zagorje region north of the capital, Zagreb, is a land of rolling hills, and the fertile agricultural region of the Pannonian Plain is bordered by the Drava, Danube, and Sava Rivers in the east. Croatia, at one time the Roman province of Pannonia, was settled in the 7th century by the Croats. They converted...
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
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By Clara James It doesn't sound like much: a small child's footprint left in a marshy field. However, it took just one little huella found in Chile's Monte Verde, near Puerto Montt, to rock the foundations of archaeology in the Americas during the 1980s. The footprint was estimated to be 12,500 years old, and other evidence of human habitation in Chile dated back still further - perhaps as far as 33, 000 years. This footprint suddenly opened the way for a wave of new theories suggesting multiple...
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By Ruben Fright For the first century after Christopher Columbus happened upon the Caymans in 1503, the islands remained uninhabited by people - which may explain why multitudes of sea turtles were happy to call the place home, giving the islands their original Spanish name, Las Tortugas. The sun-bleached landscape languished in a near-pristine state, undisturbed but for the occasional intrusion of sailors stopping in to swipe some turtles and fill up with fresh water. No permanent settlers...
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By Robin Black Cameroon is a Central African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, bordered by Nigeria, Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. It is almost twice the size of Oregon. Mount Cameroon, near the coast, is the highest elevation in the country. The main rivers are the Benue, Nyong, and Sanaga. The Portuguese arrived on the coast of Cameroon sometime before 1472. It is said the sailors were yelling "Camaroes" on the beach because they were...
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
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By Bob Charles Colombia's history reads like a romance, a drama, and a bad action movie all rolled into one. Just as a foreign attraction to oil in Venezuela or silver in Bolivia led to turmoil and upheaval in those countries, international desire for cocaine has pushed existing tensions in Colombia well beyond their boiling point. The country's history is saddening, complex and vastly interesting. To get a fuller understanding of the life of the nation, it is necessary to do a significant reading...
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By Lorence Graft Costa Rica is unique. While sharing with its neighbors the experiences of colonial exploitation and commodity-export dependency, Costa Rica managed to rise above. Instead of recurring cycles of dictatorship and poverty, Costa Rica boasts an enduring democracy and the highest standards of living in Central America. What’s more, Costa Rica is unique among all nations for its ‘unarmed’ political democracy and ‘green’ economic revolution. Originally ruled by the Spanish,...
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By Sebastian Gondor The History of Comoros started from prehistoric times. The earliest residents of the tropical island were believed to be immigrants from Polynesia. Comoros history was first documented in 1505. The first inhabitants were probably of African origin, followed by the same Austronesian people who colonized Madagascar. The islands became an important stop-off point for the trade that developed between the Arab world, Madagascar, Asia and the east coast of Africa that resulted...
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By Bob Viking The Canary Islands has a colorful history dating back over 1,000 years. It has experienced prosperity, extreme poverty, piracy, mass immigration, and is now one of Spain’s main tourist destinations. The Canary Islands culture is rich in tradition, gastronomy, and the arts, and while the archipelago obviously has a heavy Spanish influence, the language, cuisine, and music are still rather unique. The Canary Islands, which are comprised of seven islands (the nearest being 67 miles...
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By Robert Donovan The first recorded references to Brunei are in documents regarding China’s trading connections with ‘Puni’ in the 6th century AD during the Tang dynasty. Before the region embraced Islam, Brunei was within the boundaries of the Sumatran Srivijaya empire, then the ÂMajapahit empire of Java. It may be hard to believe considering the country’s current diminutive size, but in the 15th and 16th centuries, the sultanate held sway throughout Borneo and into the Philippines....
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By Tom Velvet The current territory of Burkina Faso has been occupied since 500 years B.C. The first French exploration dates back to 1888. The colonization of the country by France started in 1896 and ended in 1904 with the integration of the territory of Upper Volta (Burkina Faso was formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta) to the Upper Senegal/Niger colony of French West Africa as part of the reorganization of the French West African colony. During the Scramble in the second half of...
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By Peter Swing Dominated historically by slave-trading Arab Muslims from the northern regions, Chad is primarily an agricultural nation with over 80% of the population living at subsistence level. Its recent history was shaped when the French began taking an interest in central and western Africa in the 1900s. By 1913 the country was fully colonised: sadly the new rulers didn’t really know what to do with their conquest, and investment all but dried up after a few years, leaving much of the...
Sunday, 14 February 2016
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By Ben Grow The history of Cape Verde is typical and yet unique for its location. For three centuries, the islands were a setting for the transatlantic slave trade, exile for political prisoners of Portugal and a place of refuge for Jews and other victims of religious persecution during the Spanish-Portuguese Inquisition. But even in the 19th century, the slaves led very different lives than those of North or South America. Because much of Cape Verde’s population was mixed race, they tended...
Saturday, 13 February 2016
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By Sara Smith Landlocked Bolivia is equal in size to California and Texas combined. Brazil forms its eastern border; its other neighbors are Peru and Chile on the west and Argentina and Paraguay on the south. Famous since Spanish colonial days for its mineral wealth, modern Bolivia was once a part of the ancient Inca empire. After the Spaniards defeated the Incas in the 16th century, Bolivia's predominantly Indian population was reduced to slavery. The flags of Bolivia didn't always look like...
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By Adam Bright Wedged between Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda in east-central Africa, Burundi occupies a high plateau divided by several deep valleys. It is equal in size to Maryland. The original inhabitants of Burundi were the Twa, a Pygmy people who now make up only 1% of the population. Today the population is divided between the Hutu (approximately 85%) and the Tutsi, approximately 14%. While the Hutu and Tutsi are considered to be two separate ethnic groups,...
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By Adam Bright The land that gave birth to the legendary Orpheus and Spartacus, Bulgaria is a country with a long, tumultuous and fascinating history. It has been invaded, conquered and settled by Greeks, Scythians, Romans, Byzantines, and Turks, all of whom left their indelible marks on the landscape. More recently, Bulgaria spent four decades as a totalitarian Soviet satellite, again leaving this small Balkan nation in the shadows as far as the Western world was concerned. It's no wonder,...
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By John Stuart Over the centuries, Great Britain has evolved politically from several independent countries (England, Scotland, and Wales) through two kingdoms with a shared monarch (England and Scotland) with the union of the Crowns in 1603, a single all-island Kingdom of Great Britain from 1707, to the situation following 1801 in which Great Britain together with the island of Ireland constituted the larger United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK). The British flag, also known as the...
Friday, 12 February 2016
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By Frank James The good, the bad and the ugly is a simple way to sum up Cambodian history. Things were good in the early years, culminating in the vast Angkor empire, unrivaled in the region during four centuries of dominance. Then the bad set in, from the 13th century, as ascendant neighbors steadily chipped away at Cambodian territory. In the 20th century, it turned downright ugly, as a brutal civil war culminated in the genocidal rule of the Khmer Rouge (1975â€"79), from which Cambodia is still...
Sunday, 7 February 2016
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By Harry Scott A neighbor of Senegal and Guinea in West Africa, on the Atlantic coast, Guinea-Bissau is about half the size of South Carolina. The country is a low-lying coastal region of swamps, rain forests, and mangrove-covered wetlands, with about 25 islands off the coast. By the sixteenth century, European traders had established permanent trading posts along the coast and encouraged local peoples to raid their neighbors for slaves. The slave trade created and reinforced ethnic distinctions...
Saturday, 6 February 2016
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By Bernard Koningem Once part of Kyivan Rus, Belarus was gradually taken over by Lithuania in the 14th century and became part of the Polish"Lithuanian Grand Duchy. It was to be 400 years before Belarus came under Russian control, a period during which Belarusians became linguistically and culturally differentiated from the Russians to the east and the Ukrainians to the south. Belarus became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which merged with Poland in 1569. Following the partitions of...
Thursday, 4 February 2016
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By Nataniel Brasko The Mayan civilization spread into the area of Belize between 1500 B.C. and A.D. 300 and flourished until about 1200. European contact began in 1502 when Columbus sailed along the coast. The first recorded European settlement was begun by shipwrecked English seamen in 1638. Over the next 150 years, more English settlements were established. During the 1840's, Great Britain declared Belize to be the colony of British Honduras. Development of Belize became more organized and...
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By Billy White Belgium is a very ancient nation. It was even mentioned by Julius Caesar about 2,000 years ago in his writings on the Gallic Wars. For centuries, Belgium was part of a larger state structure of The Netherlands. Belgium only became an independent country in 1830. Before that, it has belonged to nearly all major continental European powers during their heydays, including the Romans, the Franks, the Holy Roman Empire, Habsburgian Spain and Austria, Revolutionary France, and the United...
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By Christian Burns Many centuries ago, at the time when Benin was called Igodomingodo, that geographical area now known as Benin, was the hub of a conglomeration of little towns that developed or spread into most of the areas of modern Bendel State. The land consists of a narrow coastal strip that rises to a swampy, forested plateau and then to highlands in the north. A hot and humid climate blankets the entire country. The French have been the first in the region, with a fort established at...
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By Billy White Betsy Ross, a fourth-generation America born in 1752 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, apprenticed with an upholsterer before irrevocably splitting with her family to marry outside the Quaker religion. She and her husband John Ross started their own upholstery business. Despite a lack of credible evidence to support it, legend holds that President George Washington requested that Betsy makes the first American flag. Elizabeth Griscom was born on January 1, 1752, in the city of Philadelphia....
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
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By Deric Lockledge Between 300AD and 1200AD Barbados' inhabitants were the Arawak Indians. They were driven off the island by invading Carib Indians from Venezuela, who then left Barbados around the time the first Europeans sailed into the region. By the early 1500s, all signs of Amerindian life had vanished. The first indigenous people were Amerindians who arrived here from Venezuela. Paddling long dugout canoes they crossed oceans and currents that challenge modern sailing vessels. On the...
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
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By Ezequiel G. Asfaw Individuals are at times victims of wrongdoings or various offenses that are contrary to what is stipulated in the law. Lack of knowledge and expertise requires the external services of an attorney qualified and knowledgeable on matters pertaining the charges for instance driving under the influence of a particular drug or alcohol. On the same note, the services of the best DUI attorney Pittsburgh are essential to combat the legal problem . Some several guidelines that ought...
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By Tom Gregor Bermuda is an archipelago of about 360 small islands. The largest is Bermuda or Main Island. Explored by Juan de Bermúdez, a Spaniard, the islands were settled in 1612 by an offshoot of the Virginia Company. Bermuda became a Crown colony in 1684. In 1968, Bermuda was granted a new constitution, its first premier, and autonomy, except for foreign relations, defense, and internal security. The flag of Bermuda's Union Jack on its upper left corner signifies its ties with Britain,...
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By Marcus Stam The republic of Botswana is situated in southern Africa. A previous British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana received its new name after its freedom inside of the region on September 30, 1966. Since Botswana's independence, it has held free and reasonable equitable decisions. The country Botswana has an impressive record of accomplishment of good governance and economic stability aided by prudent macroeconomic along with fiscal management contradicts the rapid famine and...
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