By Ken Slow In the very long scale of history, Hong Kong as we know it today has existed for a mere blink of an eye. But there was a lot going on in the region before that wintry morning in 1841 when a contingent of British marines clambered ashore and planted the Union flag on the western part of Hong Kong Island, claiming it for the British Crown. There is evidence that people lived in Hong Kong about 20,000 years ago. Lots of stone tools and other objects have been found. On tiny Ma Wan...
Wednesday, 30 March 2016
Saturday, 26 March 2016
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By Henry Spot Haiti is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea. Hispaniola has two countries. Haiti makes up roughly the western 1/3 of the island. The Dominican Republic makes up the eastern 2/3 of the island. The two countries are not on very friendly terms and never have been. Their roots are very different. Haiti is primarily populated by African-Caribbean people with a history of French colonialism. The Dominican Republic is made up of Afro-European mixed blooded people...
Friday, 25 March 2016
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By Peter Fright Guyana was a Dutch colony in the 17th century until it was claimed by the British Crown in 1815. Remnants of these colonial eras are still evident in many cultural traditions as well as influence from the native indigenous tribes. The Warrou people were the indigenous inhabitants of Guyana. The Dutch, English, and French established colonies in what is now known as Guyana, but by the early 17th century the majority of the settlements were Dutch. During the Napoleonic wars, Britain...
Thursday, 24 March 2016
18:39
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By Miranda Stevens The long narrow strip of central America, known in its entirety to the Spanish as Guatemala, is among the earliest of colonial conquests on the mainland. Pedro de Alvarado, a leading member of Cortés' small party in the conquest of Mexico (1519-21), is sent south in 1523 to subdue the smaller area now known as Guatemala. A series of repressive regimes followed, and by 1960, the country was plunged into a civil war between military governments, right-wing vigilante groups,...
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By Gary Lock Gibraltar can trace its history back almost 3000 years to when the Phoenicians landed in 940BC on the small area of land on the southern edge of Europe and founded the city of Carteia. By the 11th century AD, Gibraltar was part of the Arab kingdom of Sevilla. The threat of invasion from African sects led to the building of a fort in 1068, but Gibraltar was eventually overrun by the Almohads. In 1540, the great Queen Isabella died. In her will she wrote of Gibraltar: "That they...
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
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By Nichol Long The first people to set foot in Greenland arrived around 4-5000 years ago from the North American continent via Canada when the sea froze in the narrow strait at Thule in northern Greenland. In 1979, the Danish government granted home rule to Greenland. Under this agreement, Greenland remained part of the Danish realm, and each Greenlander was a Danish citizen, enjoying equal rights with all other Danes. Denmark retained control of the island’s constitutional affairs, foreign...
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By Marta Rogan Grenada is the most southerly of the Windward Islands. The Arawak Indians were the first to inhabit Grenada, but they were all eventually massacred by the Carib Indians. When Columbus arrived in 1498, he encountered the Caribs, who continued to rule over the island for another 150 years. The French gained control of the island in 1672 and held on to it until 1762 when the British invaded. Black slaves were granted freedom in 1833. After more than 200 years of British rule, most...
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By Stephan Ruling The history of Greece can be traced back to Stone Age hunters. Later came early farmers and the civilizations of the Minoan and Mycenaean kings. This was followed by a period of wars and invasions, known as the Dark Ages. In about 1100 BC, a people called the Dorians invaded from the north and spread down the west coast. In the period from 500-336 BC, Greece was divided into small city-states, each of which consisted of a city and its surrounding countryside. The Modern Greek...
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By Joana Farrel Guam, the largest island in Micronesia, is fifteen hundred miles southeast of Tokyo and six thousand miles west of San Francisco. It has an area of 212 square miles, (550 square kilometers). A high limestone plateau forms the northern regions. The southern region is of volcanic origin, with a mountainous terrain of red clay hills, waterfalls, rivers, and streams. Guam’s original inhabitants are believed to be Indo-Malayan descendants from Southeast Asia, dating back to 2,000...
Saturday, 19 March 2016
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By Lena Heading In its long history, Germany has rarely been united. For most of the two millennia that Central Europe has been inhabited by German-speaking peoples, such as the Eastern Franks, the area now called Germany was divided into hundreds of states, many quite small, including duchies, principalities, free cities, and ecclesiastical states. Not even the Romans united what is now known as Germany under one government; they managed to occupy only its southern and western portions. Following...
Friday, 18 March 2016
17:51
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By Ted Sorrow Little is known of the small African kingdoms in the region between the Tano and Volta rivers until the arrival of Europeans in the 15th century. Portuguese navigators, working their way down the west African coast, reach this area in 1471 and build a fortress at Elmina in 1482. But others follow fast. As early as 1492 a French buccaneer, marauding off the coast, deprives a Portuguese ship of its precious cargo. Several major civilizations flourished in the general region of what...
Thursday, 17 March 2016
17:59
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By Harold Higgins The largest of the U.S. states east of the Mississippi River and the youngest of the 13 former English colonies, Georgia was founded in 1732, at which time its boundaries were even larger-including much of the present-day states of Alabama and Mississippi. By the mid-19th century, Georgia had the greatest number of plantations of any state in the South, and in many respects epitomized plantation culture and economic dependence on slavery. Georgia is named after George II,...
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By Lora Frank For a vessel sailing down the west coast of Africa, the mouth of the Senegal river offers the first refreshing welcome after the parched territory of the western Sahara. Further south, around the difficult promontory of Cape Verde, is the, even more, enticing estuary of the Gambia. Here the channel is sufficiently broad and deep to carry even modern ocean-going vessels as far as 150 miles inland. Located in West Africa, the Republic of Gambia is a narrow plain embedded in Senegal,...
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By Evan Gregor Finland is three times the size of Ohio. It is heavily forested and contains thousands of lakes, numerous rivers, and extensive areas of marshland. The first inhabitants of Finland were the Sami people. The recorded history of Finland began in the 12th century. By 1120 Christian missionaries were operating there. They were prepared to use force to convert Finland! The Swedish king Eric led a crusade in 1157. An Englishman, Bishop Henry of Uppsala, assisted him. Henry stayed after...
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
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By Brian Colins The Philippine archipelago was settled at least 30,000 years ago when migrations from the Indonesian archipelago and elsewhere are believed to have occurred. Additional migrations took place over the next millennia. Over time, the social and political organization developed and evolved in the widely scattered islands. Ferdinand Magellan was the first European recorded to have landed in the Philippines*. He arrived in March 1521 during his circumnavigation of the globe. He claimed...
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
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By Antony Lowrance The region that is now Gabon was inhabited in Paleolithic times. By the 16th cent. A.D. the Omiéné were living along the coast and in the 18th cent. the Fang entered the region from the north. From the 16th to the 18th cent. the area was part of the decentralized Loango empire, which included most of the area between the Ogooué and Congo rivers. The earliest humans in Gabon were believed to be the Babinga, or Pygmies, dating back to 7000 B.C., who were later followed by...
Sunday, 13 March 2016
18:42
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By Bob Dunkan According to Fijian legend, the great chief Lutunasobasoba led his people across the seas to the new land of Fiji. Most authorities agree that people came into the Pacific from Southeast Asia via the Malay Peninsula. Here the Melanesians and the Polynesians mixed to create a highly developed society long before the arrival of the Europeans. From 1879 to 1916 Indians came as indentured laborers to work on the sugar plantations. After the indentured system was abolished, many stayed...
Saturday, 12 March 2016
02:19
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By Bob Nelson According to Irish missionary Brendan, Celtic monks were already living in eremitic seclusion on the Faroes by the 6th century. Their isolation was ended from around AD800 when the first Norse farmers arrived. The farmers’ independence dwindled with the often forceful imposition of Christianity, and the isles became part of the Kingdom of Norway in 1035. The first bishops’ seat was established in Kirkjubøur. Jens Oliver Lisberg composed the Faroe Islands banner in 1919 when...
Friday, 11 March 2016
08:08
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By Sara Graham Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa and one of the oldest in the world. What is believed to be the oldest remains of a human ancestor ever found, which have been dated as being some five million years old, were discovered in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia? This beats the discovery of "Lucy", a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton, who was unearthed in the same area in 1974. Ethiopia's history which culminates in the 1975 revolution poses some very critical issues in Marxist...
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By Albert Gregory Positioned at the very centre of Polynesia, the Cook Islands stretch out in a scattering of 2 million square kilometres. Each island has its special place within the group. But their origins are owed to the Polynesians who arrived in Rarotonga around 800 AD. These ancient voyagers had set sail from Tupua, now French Polynesia. Captain James Cook, the great explorer who, on the orders of his country, was voyaging the South Pacific for possible land acquisition, In 1773 he sighted...
Thursday, 10 March 2016
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By Adam Bright Situated at the maritime crossroads of the eastern Mediterranean basin, Cyprus has a rich and varied history. Many invaders, settlers and immigrants have come here over the centuries, and the island has seen Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Lusignans, Genoese, Venetians, Ottomans, British and Turks seek to take a part of Cyprus for themselves. Cypriots, whether Greek or Turkish, are proud of their nation and feel a strong sense of national identity. The division of their island in...
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By Frank Gallow It is thought that Patagonian Indians may have reached the islands by canoe, but when the Europeans encountered the islands in the seventeenth century, they were uninhabited. The British landed in 1690 and claimed the islands. The first settlement was by the French, at Port Louis on East Falkland in 1764. Spain soon after pressured the French to leave, and in 1767, forced the British out of a settlement on West Falkland. Argentina claimed the islands in the late 1820s, and the...
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By Charly Smart The Estonian people have lived along the Baltic coast for about 1500 years, speaking a Finno-Ugric tongue closely related to Finnish and distantly removed from Hungarian. The people gained a reputation for trade and even naval warfare, as Estonian Vikings caused great damage to their Swedish counterparts during several centuries of mutual campaigns. Estonians resisted the assaults of Vikings, Danes, Swedes, and Russians before the 13th century. In 1346, the Danes, who possessed...
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
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By Joshua Pastreson Ecuador, about equal in area to Nevada, is in the northwest part of South America fronting on the Pacific. To the north is Colombia and to the east and south is Peru. The tribes in the northern highlands of Ecuador formed the Kingdom of Quito around 1000. It was absorbed, by conquest and marriage, into the Inca Empire. Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro conquered the land in 1532, and throughout the 17th century, a Spanish colony thrived by exploitation of the Indians....
Monday, 7 March 2016
16:19
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By Rose Clark As the many state and local slogans proclaim, America started here in Delaware. The area is indeed very rich in history, much of which has been preserved for us to enjoy today. Trace the steps of our founding fathers in historic Philadelphia. August 28, 1609-The Spanish and Portuguese are believed to have made explorations of the Delaware coastline in the early sixteenth century. However, Henry Hudson-an English navigator under the employ of the Dutch East India Trading Company...
Saturday, 5 March 2016
16:40
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By Tom Ledgers First visited by Spanish explorers in the 1500s, the territory was claimed for Spain by Juan de Ulibarri in 1706. The U.S. obtained eastern Colorado as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the central portion in 1845 with the admission of Texas as a state, and the western part in 1848 as a result of the Mexican War. When the first settlers came to Colorado, the Ute lived in the mountain areas, while the Comanche, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Kiowa inhabited the Great Plains. Warfare...
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By Josh Paterson Connecticut derives its name from its principal river, called by the Indians Quonehtacut, and which, in their language, signified 'the long river.’ While Connecticut was first explored by the Dutch, who founded trading posts, the first permanent settlements were made by English Puritans from Massachusetts, starting in 1633. From the first, Connecticut enjoyed a great measure of political independence, proclaiming in its Fundamental Orders of 1639 a democratic principle of government...
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
15:20
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By Barbara Jameson There were many situations when the feeling of courage made men stronger in the history of humanity. Particularly in wartime, when some warriors did not feel well, they raised inspiration by shouting out and doing marvellous things; some shouting out the expressions of hurrah, and some by flying the banners of their country. The Ink Flag phenomenal story is the kind of greatest examples. In 1949 towards the end of War of Independence, IDF powers left on a mission and effectively...
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By Antony Pharel The national flag is a symbol or emblem of a country, and therefore it represents a country. Each country in the world has its own combination of colors, shapes and symbols, but conventionally almost all national flags are rectangular. The African Union is a political union of 54 African states. The highest decision-making organ is the Assembly of the African Union, made up of all the heads of state or government of member states of the AU. Banners were first conveyed to South...
Tuesday, 1 March 2016
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By Gary Bolton The national banners depict the outline history and the present days of the nations, as they symbolize the sovereign states. The most of them have turned into the well-known images and nation brands, perceived in each side of the world to understand and cherish the history of our country. These flags are used to separate specific individuals taking into account national, provincial, religious, or social affiliations. In contrast to an old type flag coming from those days, the...
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By Barbara Jameson Independence Day yearly celebrated on July 4 and is regularly known as "the Fourth of July". It is the commemoration of the affirmation of freedom from Great Britain in 1776. Presentations and family occasions are sorted out all through the United States. Numerous individuals show the American national banner outside their homes or structures. The flying of the American banner is far reaching. Celebrations of the Fourth of July became more common as the years went on. Independence...
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By Margaret Brooks When King James VI of Scotland ascended to the English throne, thereby becoming James I of England, the national flags of England and Scotland on land continued to be, respectively, the red St George's cross and the white St Andrew's cross. Confusion arose, however, as to what flag would be appropriateat sea. This is a brief story how the British national Flag was born that happened in the past. And this is a story of people who worship this national flag, the flag that shows...
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