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In 1776, a Spanish exploration party led by Don Gaspar de Portolá established a Franciscan missio...

The Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam was founded by the director-general of the colony of New Ne...

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In late January 1918, Dr. Loren Miner, a country physician in rural Kansas, saw the first cases o...

They were poor exiles, having lived in a foreign land for a dozen years. Through those years, the...

A to Z of Earth Scientists, Updated Edition is a comprehensive A to Z reference of Earth scientis...

A to Z of Chemists, Updated Edition tells the stories of nearly 100 chemists--both well-known sci...

Folklore has been described as the unwritten literature of a culture: its songs, stories, sayings...

Designed for middle and high school students, A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy, Update...

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Founded in 1565, St. Augustine remained in Spanish hands until the 1763 Treaty of Paris awarded F...