The Rise and Fall of the Rust Belt: Ep 2: Boom to Bust
America’s Great Lakes, with an abundance of coal, iron ore, and lots of water, fuelled an unparalleled industrial revolution. The
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Deep South USA
The Rise and Fall of the Rust Belt: Ep 1: American Titans
America’s Great Lakes, with an abundance of coal, iron ore, and lots of water, fuelled an unparalleled industrial revolution. The
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The Mardi Gras of New Orleans
Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras – Fat Monday and Fat Tuesday – are the culmination of what was originally a Roman Catholic celebration to mark the forty-seven days before Easter.
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Rosa Parks: humble civil rights activist
Rosa Parks, became an historic figure in the US civil rights movement . She was a black woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger on the 1st December 1955.
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The Food and Soul of the Mississippi Delta
Vicksburg marks the beginning of the Mississippi Delta, a flat alluvial plain between the Yazoo and the Mississippi Rivers.
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