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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 6:42:17 GMT -5
What is currently happening in North and South America?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 21:31:31 GMT -5
' BBC News' reports in Mexico a strong earthquake which topples buildings, killing scores. Rescuers are searching for survivors and there are reports of children trapped in a partly collapsed school. The 7.1 magnitude quake caused damage in Morelos and Puebla states and in Mexico State. It struck while many people took part in an earthquake drill exactly 32 years after a quake killed thousands. The country is prone to earthquakes and earlier this month an 8.1 magnitude tremor in the south left at least 90 dead. The epicentre of the latest quake was next to Atencingo in Puebla state, about 120km (75 miles) from Mexico City, with a depth of 51km, the US Geological Survey said. At least 139 people had died across the country, a civil protection agency spokesman told the BBC. About two million people in the capital were without electricity and phone lines were down. Officials also warned residents not to smoke on the streets as gas mains could have been ruptured. Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera told TV network Televisa that rescue services were dealing with collapsed or badly damaged buildings at 44 locations. The earthquake drill was being held in Mexico City on the 32nd anniversary of a quake that killed up to 10,000 people. Earthquake alarms did sound, correspondents say, but some residents apparently thought they were part of the day of drills. Mexico City is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, with more than 20 million people living in the metropolitan area.The prolonged tremor hit at 13:14 local time (18:14 GMT) and sent thousands of residents into the streets. Jennifer Swaddle, a teacher at the British International School in Mexico City, told the BBC that part of her classroom collapsed after the earthquake hit. "Something that started as a tremor quickly escalated into something where the classroom shook," she said. "As we were leaving, the outside of my classroom wall fell, so there was a big pile of rubble. Luckily, fantastically, nobody was hurt, but it was incredibly frightening." A six-storey blocks of flats, a supermarket and a factory were said to be among the collapsed buildings in Mexico City. Mexican media also reported that some children had been rescued from the partially collapsed Enrique Rebsamen school, in Mexico City's southern Coapa district, but that others were still trapped. Across the city, teams of rescue workers and volunteers clawed through the rubble with picks, shovels and their bare hands. "My wife is there. I haven't been able to communicate with her," said Juan Jesus Garcia, 33, choking back tears next to a collapsed building. "She is not answering and now they are telling us we have to turn off our mobile phones because there is a gas leak." President Enrique Peña Nieto urged people to avoid the streets so emergency services could reach the most affected areas.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2017 13:45:26 GMT -5
Good evening to everyone reading ' The Third'! I trust that all is well with all of you today! ' The Financial Times' leads tomorrow with some editorial comment that Tech’s cash glut leaves public markets behind. The salmon pink newspaper concludes that even if this is not a bubble, it is not a healthy development for finance! What do you think, Uncle Henry?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 20:24:36 GMT -5
Good morning to everyone reading ' Serious Topics', ' The Third' and all other social media online today! I trust that all is well with all of you. ' The Financial Times' leads today with some editorial comment on Republicans’ simplicity without substance on tax. The FT takes the view that cutting rates, by itself, is not reform. The base also has to expand, Jason, but how?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 13:56:59 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2017 8:13:11 GMT -5
Columbus discovered the Americas over five hundred years ago!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2017 9:37:12 GMT -5
What about the Vikings? They discovered the Americas over a millennium ago!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 1:06:01 GMT -5
There may have been a Welsh prince during the Dark Ages. Whilst it was generally believed that Columbus was the first European to discover America in 1492, it is now well known that Viking explorers reached parts of the east coast of Canada around 1100 and that Icelandic Leif Erikson’s Vinland may have been an area that is now part of the United States. What is less well known is that a Welshman may have followed in Erikson’s footsteps, this time bringing settlers with him to Mobile Bay in modern day Alabama. According to Welsh legend, that man was Prince Madog ab Owain Gwynedd. A Welsh poem of the 15th century tells how Prince Madoc sailed away in 10 ships and discovered America. The account of the discovery of America by a Welsh prince, whether truth or myth, was apparently used by Queen Elizabeth I as evidence to the British claim to America during its territorial struggles with Spain. So who was this Welsh Prince and did he really discover America before Columbus? Owain Gwynedd, king of Gwynedd in the 12th century, had nineteen children, only six of whom were legitimate. Madog (Madoc), one of the illegitimate sons, was born at Dolwyddelan Castle in the Lledr valley between Betws-y-Coed and Blaenau Ffestiniog. On the death of the king in December 1169, the brothers fought amongst themselves for the right to rule Gwynedd. Madog, although brave and adventurous, was also a man of peace. In 1170 he and his brother, Riryd, sailed from Aber-Kerrik-Gwynan on the North Wales Coast (now Rhos-on-Sea) in two ships, the Gorn Gwynant and the Pedr Sant. They sailed west and are said to have landed in what is now Alabama in the USA. Prince Madog then returned to Wales with great tales of his adventures and persuaded others to return to America with him. They sailed from Lundy Island in 1171, but were never heard of again.
They are believed to have landed at Mobile Bay, Alabama and then travelled up the Alabama River along which there are several stone forts, said by the local Cherokee tribes to have been constructed by “White People”. These structures have been dated to several hundred years before the arrival of Columbus and are said to be of a similar design to Dolwyddelan Castle in North Wales. Early explorers and pioneers found evidence of possible Welsh influence among the native tribes of America along the Tennessee and Missouri Rivers. In the 18th century one local tribe was discovered that seemed different to all the others that had been encountered before. Called the Mandans this tribe were described as white men with forts, towns and permanent villages laid out in streets and squares. They claimed ancestry with the Welsh and spoke a language remarkably similar to it. Instead of canoes, Mandans fished from coracles, an ancient type of boat still found in Wales today. It was also observed that unlike members of other tribes, these people grew white-haired with age. In addition, in 1799 Governor John Sevier of Tennessee wrote a report in which he mentioned the discovery of six skeletons encased in brass armour bearing the Welsh coat of arms. George Catlin, a 19th century painter who spent eight years living among various native American tribes including the Mandans, declared that he had uncovered the descendants of Prince Madog’s expedition. He speculated that the Welshmen had lived among the Mandans for generations, intermarrying until their two cultures became virtually indistinguishable. Some later investigators supported his theory, noting that the Welsh and Mandan languages were so similar that the Mandans easily responded when spoken to in Welsh. Unfortunately the tribe was virtually wiped out by a smallpox epidemic introduced by traders in 1837. But the belief in their Welsh heritage persisted well into the 20th century, when and a plaque was placed alongside Mobile Bay in 1953 by the Daughters of the American Revolution. “In memory of Prince Madog,” the inscription reads, “a Welsh explorer who landed on the shores of Mobile Bay in 1170 and left behind, with the Indians, the Welsh language.”
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 6:12:28 GMT -5
This is disputed, Charles4. It is possible that Cro-Magnon man crossed the Atlantic Ocean during the last Ice Age!
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