Menorca
Menorca is a serene Balearic Island, offering a laid-back alternative to its more well known neighbors, Ibiza and Majorca.
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History
Philadelphia’s European History
Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the early 17th century, the Lenape, an Indian tribe also known as the Delaware Indians, lived in the viillage of Shackamaxon in present-day Philadelphia and the surrounding area.
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Philadelphia and the American Revolution
Philadelphia’s importance and central location in the colonies made it a natural center for America’s revolutionaries. By the 1750s, Philadelphia surpassed Boston as the largest city and busiest port in British America, and the second-largest city in the entire British Empire after London.
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The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. It constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history.
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A Brief History of Alaska
Alaska’s history spans millennia of Indigenous habitation via the Bering Land Bridge which connects it with Siberia.
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