Archive for the ‘History’ Category
Cancun and the Environment
Cancun is located in one of the most fascinating parts of the world. As a place with some of the most luxurious hotels in the world, it’s been a popular tourist attraction both within and outside of Mexico. People from all over the world, in fact, are drawn to the magnificent beaches, looking to catch [...]
La Lanne and the Santa Monica Pier
The Santa Monica Pier is definitely one of the places to go when you’re visiting Los Angeles. It’s a spectacular way to get introduced to the beaches, which are some of the finest, or at least the most filmed beaches, in the world. The legendary weather in Southern California is really all that it’s cracked [...]
No Buffalo in Buffalo
That’s right. There are no buffalo in Buffalo New York. There is however many luxurious hotels around Buffalo that accommodate a large and thriving community. Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York. It sits along the shores of Lake Erie and is at the start of the Niagara River. It [...]
Giant Heads of Presidents in Williamsburg
What was the oldest and largest colony England had in America? It was Williamsburg, which was the Virginia’s colonial capital, from 1699 to 1780. Here is where George Washington met with Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the like, creating the basic concepts that would form the United States. When the American Revolution came (Virginia [...]
The Aleutian Islands in Alaska
What part of America was occupied by a foreign country last? By what country and when? Give up? If you answered the British in the War of 1812, you’d be wrong, although it has been a long time. The answer is that the United States was occupied by Japan during World War II, in June [...]