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"Jamestown will be lost": Climate change threatens to sink historic colony
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJamestown, Virginia — More than 400 years after the first European settlers arrived, Jamestown,...
12 Animated Movies And The Real People And Events That Inspired Them
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 8 months agoGrowing up I was a huge fan of cartoons and animated movies, and that love continues into adulthood....
Edward Norton discovers Pocahontas is his 12th great-grandmother
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEdward Norton has discovered that Pocahontas is his 12th great-grandmother. This week, the...
Pocahontas: The true story behind the Disney movie
Yahoo Movies UK· 6 months agoDisney's Pocahontas was based on true story of the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of the Powhatan Confederacy, a group of Algonquian-speaking...
How lack of 'good harpooners' doomed a quest for whale oil off Cape Henlopen
Delmarva Now | The Daily Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAfter establishing settlements at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 and Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620,...
Lauren Groff Reveals the Cover of Her Upcoming Novel, 'The Vaster Wilds'
Elle via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLauren Groff Reveals Cover of 'The Vaster Wilds'Eli Sinkus In the opening pages of Lauren Groff’s...
Blacks shouldn't have to lose identity to promote Juneteenth events
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 10 months agoJuneteenth is my favorite holiday. It’s the oldest known commemoration of the end of slavery in...
Rise & Shine! Your Newport County guide for Aug. 20-21
The Newport Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRise & Shine! I’m Scott Barrett, managing editor for The Daily News, and today is Aug. 20, the 232nd...
Lauren Groff plunges us into America’s wilderness
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIn the dreadful winter of 1609, in what was known as The Starving Time in Jamestown, Virginia, a teenage servant girl slips through the wall of the fort built by the ill-fated English settlers ...
The oldest cities in the U.S.
List Wire via Yahoo Sports· 4 months agoBeen around the block... (USA TODAY) While the history books headline July 4, 1776, as the official starting point of the United States of America, the...