Who were the first Filipinos? Believe it or not, they were Spaniards. During the Spanish occupation of the Philippines, "Filipinos" was a term used for Spaniards born in the...
My name is Todd Arnold. I'm the deputy director of Public Affairs at John F. Kennedy Space Center. I hired into NASA in 1989 as part of an accelerated training program for recent college...
PART 2: Chapter VI Edna Pontellier could not have told why, wishing to go to the beach with Robert, she should in the first place have declined, and in the second place have followed in obedience to...
PART 1: Chapter I A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!"...
Toni Stone was the first woman to play professional baseball in the Negro League. She was a second base man and she played for the Indianapolis Clowns and then later for the Legendary Kansas City...
Hello and welcome to African Elements. In this episode, The African American Frontier: Africa and the Atlantic World. In part 1 of the series on the African American frontier, we examine the...
As you can well imagine the impact of the slave trade -- of the Atlantic slave trade -- on the African continent was absolutely devastating. As we discussed in Episode 3: Africa in Historical Context,...
Tell me about Kevin Corcoran. If you should happen to come across a distinctive gold locket... When the rebellion broke out, he volunteered to fight. ...engraved with the letters "E"...
All that remains of house in the Lower 9th Ward. by TravelPod member dani.bora Gate to nowehere in the Lower 9th Ward. by TravelPod member dani.bora The new levy in the lower 9th ward by TravelPod...