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Italian Immigration to America - 1850s

Immigration from Italy and the rest of Europe beginning in the 1950s for 50 years hence is known as THE SECOND WAVE of European Immigration. America was not even 100 years old yet in 1850!

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The Island of Hawaii and Its Six Volcanoes

Volcanoes, like their close cousins earthquakes, are responsible for both massive destruction as well as for the creation of many of the beautiful landscapes on our earth. The Earth as we know it today was...

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Hawaii and Tsunamis

I first encountered the term tsunami as a teenager while reading James A. Michener's epic novel, Hawaii. In one part of that book he describes an off shore earthquake in a remote area of the Pacific which...

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The Ferris Bueller Chicago Tour

Recreate Ferris Bueller's famous day off for yourself! Take in some of Chicago's most well-known sights.

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Leasehold Defined

A leasehold is a form of real estate ownership. When we speak of a lease, most people have the image of a standard rental agreement for an apartment or business property. This type of lease is for a short...

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Top Ten US Beaches For Shell Collecting

Sea Shell, Sea Shell, Sing me a song, O Please! A song of ships, and sailor men, And parrots, and tropical trees, Of islands lost in the Spanish Main Which no man ever may find again, Of fishes...

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How to Sail Around the World For Free

Sailing around the world may not, for most people, be associated with cheap travel, never mind free travel, but if you've ever dreamed of watching the sunrise from the deck of a yacht, out of sight of land,...

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How to Get a Job in Gran Canaria

Gran Canaria is one of the Canary Islands and is situated off the coast of North Africa. With great weather all year round, Gran Canaria is a great tourist desination and somewhere you can work all year round...

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Aboriginals in New Zealand

The Maori peoples of New Zealand consider themselves its First Nations. There is much duiscussion and much dispute over the question of whether they came from Egypt and the region to teh east or southeast, from Southeast Asia, from Melanesia, rrom Polynesia, from Hawaii, or from all of these sites.

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Canada's Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site

A number of years ago while living back in my hometown of Rochester, New York and working in my first job which provided me with a two-week paid vacation, I teamed up with my younger brother and sister, who...

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