When I got to Zealand to celebrate the turn of the millenium, at the hotel, we were greeted that evening after dinner with a Haka, the traditional Maori ceremonial dance. The Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand. It is performed by a group, with vigorous movements and stamping of the feet with rhythmically …
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May 14 2021
Cartnoon
The Discovery of Oil in the US Native Americans had known of the oil in western Pennsylvania, and had made some use of it for many years before the mid-19th century. Early European explorers noted seeps of oil and natural gas in western Pennsylvania and New York. Interest grew substantially in the mid-1850s as scientists …
May 12 2021
Cartnoon
Reinheitsgebot: Bavarian Beer Laws There are more than 8200 craft breweries in the United States. But it is a strange irony of the history of beer that, in sixteenth century Bavaria, the flavorful adulterations of brew common in craft brews were banned in a proclamation that still affects the industry today. The 1516 Reinheitsgebot, or …
May 10 2021
Cartnoon
Mother shares unique maternal bond with gorilla This gorilla is Kiki. She recently had a baby named Pablo. My wife, Emmelina, also had a baby 5 weeks previous to this video. Kiki had brought her baby over to us and shared a connection with my wife and our baby boy Canyon. TMC for ek hornbeck
May 07 2021
Cartnoon
Now Or Never: Yorktown Campaign of 1781 George Washington’s Continental Army has fought for five long years to drive the British from American soil. Now, with the aid of French land and naval forces, that time may be near. Washington and his allies have surrounded the British at Yorktown, Virginia. The dream of American independence …
May 06 2021
Cartnoon
Orphan Trains The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The orphan trains operated between 1854 and 1929, relocating about 250,000 children. The co-founders of the Orphan Train movement claimed that these …
May 04 2021
Cartnoon
America Unearthed: Stonehenge in New Hampshire America’s Stonehenge is a privately-owned tourist attraction and archaeological site consisting of a number of large rocks and stone structures scattered around roughly 30 acres (12 hectares) within the town of Salem, New Hampshire, in the United States. It is open to the public for a fee as part …