The beautiful land of the New World amazed the European explorers who arrived on North American shores around They realized the economic possibilities of the fertile soil and many natural resources. In the 17th century, Europeans established successful permanent settlements in what is now the United States.

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National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
For hours they had waited for a plane that would take them out of Vietnam. North Vietnamese had sent rockets crashing onto the sprawling airport on April 29, , a day before the fall of Saigon. A relative who worked for the U. The young mother knew she needed to take her children and leave immediately. The commercial plane never arrived. Moments after the rockets landed, Danielle, her 1-year old sister, Lan-Dinh, and their mother were rushed to the tarmac.
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I know nothing of the night sky. This saddens but does not surprise Larry Raigetal, a master navigator who is chewing betel nut beneath a canopy of stars. But we are meeting in a canoe house on the neighboring island of Guam, where I call home. As we speak, Raigetal is using his hands to split the horizon into a point star compass.
On 25 October , a Category 5 storm ploughed into the United States. With maximum sustained winds of miles per hour, it was the most powerful storm anywhere on Earth that year, and the strongest in US history since It tore roofs from houses and badly damaged the power grid. Despite this damage, the superstorm barely made a dent in the national news cycle. That storm garnered so little attention because of where it hit. These islands are part of the United States, and people born there are US citizens — but few on the mainland seemed aware of that. Weather, like war, has a way of teaching geography lessons. At that time, if you lived in the US the whole country, not just the part on the North American continent , you were more likely to be colonised than you were to be an immigrant — indeed, there were more colonial subjects than African-Americans.