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North America > 
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost fully in the Western Hemisphere, bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocean. It covers an area of about 24million km², or about 4.8% of the Earth's surface. As of July 2002, its population was estimated at more than 514 million. It is the third largest continent in area, after Asia and Africa, and is fourth in population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Both North and South America are named after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a previously undiscovered (by Europeans) New World.
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Earth
The continents are the great land masses of the earth. There are seven continent on Earth now: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South Ameri... |
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US History Timeline
From the World Almanac for Kids. Travel through 15,000 years of history from hunters of wooly mammoths to the 21st Century, America has had a rich history. You can follow... |
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Mississippi River Timeline
In the heart of North America lies one of the world's greatest rivers, the Mighty Mississippi, which begins as a tiny brook and 2,350 miles later empties into the Gulf... |
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Columbus, Discovers America - 1492
Christopher Columbus departed on his first voyage from the port of Palos (near Huelva) in southern Spain, on August 3, 1492, in command of three ships: the Niña, the Pint... |
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Montezuma II, Emperor of the Aztecs
Moctezuma or Montezuma II was an Aztec ruler, leader of the Aztec Triple Alliance from c. 1502–1520. He is famous for being the ruler of the Aztec empire at the start of... |
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Cortez, Conqueror of Mexico - 1519
Hernando Cortez was the Spanish conqueror of Mexico. He also wiped out the Aztec Empire. Cortez was born in 1485 in Medellin, Extremadura. His parents were of small Spani... |
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Columbus Discovers America
After little over a month at sea, Columbus' ships sighted land in what is now known as the Bahamas. The ship's recorder entered in his journal on Thursday, October 11,... |
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Virtual Jamestown - Timeline
Jamestown Interactive highlights some of the newest project development at Virtual Jamestown. For example, using John Smith's maps and records as a guide, we have put tog... |
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Timeline of African-American History
Enchanted Learning Software creates children's educational web sites and games designed to stimulate creativity, learning, enjoyment, and imagination.... |
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Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Elizabeth I was born in 1533 to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Although she entertained many marriage proposals and flirted incessantly, she never married or had children. E... |
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Sir Francis Drake
Drake was, essentially, the greatest of all the Elizabethan sailors: a man ready for any adventure, beloved and followed by his men, yet absolute master on his own deck.... |
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Sir Walter Raleigh, Writer and Explorer
Sir Walter Raleigh is a famed English writer, poet, courtier and explorer. He was responsible for establishing the first English colony in the New World, on June 4, 1584,... |
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John Smith, Founder of Jamestown - 1607
Captain John Smith was an English adventurer and soldier, and one of the founders of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement. Smith also led expeditions exploring Chesapeake... |
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Founding the 13 American Colonies
Everybody remembers Jamestown, Capt. John Smith, Pocahontas and all the rest. But do you remember Roanoke? In 1585, after a small scouting expedition had returned from No... |
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Stuyvesant, Governor New York - 1646
Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch Governor of New York (the New Netherlands). Born in Holland in 1602; died in New York city in August, 1672. He was the son of a clergyman of Fries... |
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Virginia, One of the 1st Colonies - USA
The Commonwealth of Virginia is a state in the Southern United States. Named after Queen Elizabeth I of England, who was known as the Virgin Queen, this commonwealth was... |
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New York, Colonization
As early as 1597 the Dutch made voyages to the West Indies, but it was left for an Englishman in the employ of the Netherlands to make the one and only discovery in the N... |
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Thanksgiving, 1st Harvest of the Pelgrims
The Thanksgiving holiday celebrated the fourth Thursday in November in the United States.
According to historical sources, the Pilgrims never held an autumnal Thanksg... |
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Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father USA
Benjamin Franklin stands tall among a small group of men we call our Founding Fathers. Ben used his diplomacy skills to serve his fellow countrymen. His role in the Ame... |
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George Washington, 1st President USA
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United St... |
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George III, King of Great Britain
Britain's King George III was the 18th century monarch who lost the fight to keep control over the American colonies. The third monarch of the Hanover house and the first... |
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Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President USA
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, third president of the United States 1801-1809, and founder... |
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The American Revolutionary War
The British defeated the French and their Indian allies in the French and Indian War (1754-1763). The result was British control over much of North America. But the war h... |
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Declaration of Independence, 4th of July
The Declaration of Independence has been described as the most important document in human history. Here, in the memorable language of the famous preamble, a hundred and... |
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Lewis and Clark's Historic Trail
In May, 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on an amazing expedition across the Louisiana Territory. On March 6, 1801, Lewis, as a young Army Captain in Pitt... |
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Abraham Lincoln, 16th President USA
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States (1861-1865), guided his country through the most devastating experience in its national history-the CIVIL WAR (18... |
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Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President USA
Theodore Roosevelt is mostly remembered as the twenty-sixth President of the United States (1901-1909), but this astonishingly multifaceted man was a great many other thi... |
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Henry Ford, Car Mass Production 1913
Most people credit Henry Ford with inventing the automobile. The fact is he didn't. He did, however, introduce standardized interchangeable parts and assembly-line techni... |
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George Washington Carver
Scientist and early advocate for industrial uses for farm crops (bio-energy). Carver earned a B.S. from the Iowa Agricultural College in 1894 and an M.S. in 1896. He beca... |
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most influential and imaginative architects of the 20th Century. His architectural career lasted almost 70 years. Frank Lloyd Wright dev... |
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Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper was an American painter whose highly individualistic works are landmarks of American realism. His paintings embody in art a... |
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Coca-Cola
The product that has given the world its best-known taste was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup f... |
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Statue of Liberty, New York
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if people in France gave the United States a great monument as a lasting memorial to independence and thereby showed that the French government... |
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Edwin Hubble, Big Bang Theory
Hubble had also devised a classification system for the various galaxies he observed, sorting them by content, distance, shape, and brightness; it was then he noticed... |
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Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President USA
Thirty-Fourth President USA,1953-1961. Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eis... |
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Harry Truman, 33rd President USA
Harry Truman was president of America (1945-1952) after the death of F.D. Roosevelt in April 1945. Harry Truman gave the order for the atomic bombs to be dropped on Hiros... |
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Ernest Hemingway
Bigger than life. A complicated icon.
He was an American voice in America's century: bold, exuberant, blustery. He honed his craft at The Kansas City Star. Then he went... |
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Al Capone, Gangster
Alphonse Gabriel Capone, more popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was a famous American gangster in the 1920s and 1930s, although his business card is reported to ha... |
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Charles Lindbergh, Aviator
Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974), an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed th... |
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Wright brothers, First Flying Airplane
Between 1899 and 1905, the Wright Brothers conducted a program of aeronautica research and experimentation that led to the first successful powered airplane in 190 an... |
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The Panama Canal
By August 15, 1914 the Panama Canal was officially opened by the passing of the SS Ancon. At the time, no single effort in American history had exacted such a... |
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Orson Welles
George Orson Welles was a uniquely talented artist, but one who was doomed to spend much of his life unable to realize his ambitions. It didn't start that way: Welles was... |
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John F. Kennedy, 35th President USA
Thirty-Fifth President USA 1961-1963. On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin'... |
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Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926. He attended Catholic schools before graduating from the University of Havana with a degree in law.
Castro was a member of th... |
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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe personified Hollywood glamour with an unparalleled glow and energy that enamored the world. Although she was an alluring beauty with voluptuous curves and... |
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First Flight New York - Paris, Lindbergh
Early in the morning on May 20, 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh took off in The Spirit of St. Louis from Roosevelt Field near New York City. Flying northeast along the coast, h... |
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Martin Luther King
Any number of historic moments in the civil rights struggle have been used to identify Martin Luther King, Jr. — prime mover of the Montgomery bus boycott, ke... |
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Neil Armstrong : First Man on the Moon
As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first piloted lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first person to step on the surface of the M... |
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James Dean
James Dean had one of the most spectacularly brief careers of any screen star. In just more than a year, and in only three films, Dean became a widely admired screen pers... |
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The Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is a testimony to a country's ability to construct monolithic projects in the midst of adverse conditions. Built during the Depression; t... |
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Elvis Presley
In 1954, he began his singing career with the legendary Sun Records label in Memphis. In late 1955, his recording contract was sold to RCA Victor. By 1956, he was an inte... |
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Pearl Harbor Raid, US joins WW2
The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United... |
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali has undoubtedly been a fixture in world culture since the 1960's. Seizing the gold medal at the Olympics in 1960, battling George Foreman in "The Rumble in... |
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The Lynching of Emmett Till
In the summer of 1955, Mamie Till gave in to her son's pleas to visit relatives in the South. But before putting her only son Emmett on bus in Chicago,... |
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is CEO of Apple, a leader in personal computing devices which he co-founded in 1976, and CEO of Pixar, the Academy-Award-winning computer animation studi... |
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Bill Gates, Founder Microsoft
William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for person... |
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular war in which Americans ever fought. And there is no reckoning the cost. The toll in suffering, sorrow, in rancorous na... |
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Lance Armstrong
Armstrong won the prestigious Tour de France an unprecedented seven straight times, from 1999-2005. Armstrong's string broke the previous Tour de France record of five vi... |
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Watergate: Time & Again
Break-in at the Watergate Hotel. Frank Wills, a young security guard working the graveyard shift at the Watergate Hotel, finds a piece of masking tape stuck to the lock o... |
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google
The founders of the Google internet search engine - Larry Page and Sergey Brin - are the type of young men most parents would dream of their daughters bringing home. And... |
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Complete 9/11 Timeline
This timeline is veeeeery, very long. It's chock-full of information and may be difficult to get through. You may want to tackle a bit at a time (and if you're impa... |
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