The United States and allies enforce a no-fly zone over Iraq south of the 32nd parallel north, August 27, 1992 – September 4, 1996; Bill Clinton becomes the 42nd President of the United States on January 20, 1993; The United States contributes troops for United Nations peacekeeping in Macedonia, July 9, 1993 –

The region that is today the U.S. State of Colorado has been inhabited by Native Americans and their Paleoamerican ancestors for at least 13,500 years and possibly more than 37,000 years. The eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains was a major migration route that was important to the spread of early peoples throughout the Americas. The Lindenmeier site in Larimer County …

Jacksonville is a city in Morgan County, Illinois, United States.The population was 19,446 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Morgan County. It is home to Illinois College, Illinois School for the Deaf, and the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired.Jacksonville is the principal city of the Jacksonville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Morgan and Scott counties.

Arunachal Pradesh (/ ɑːr ə ˌ n ɑː tʃ əl p r ə ˈ d ɛ ʃ /, lit. 'Land of Dawn-Lit Mountains') is a state in Northeastern India.It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares international borders with Bhutan in the west, Myanmar in the east, and a ...

History; United Kingdom; Name: Terror: Ordered: 30 March 1812: Builder: Robert Davy, Topsham, Devon Laid down: September 1812: Launched: 29 June 1813: Completed: By ...

HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826.The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy named after Erebus, the personification of darkness in Greek mythology.. The 372-ton ship was armed with two mortars – one 13 in (330 mm) and one 10 in (254 mm) – and 10 guns. The ship took part in the Ross …

The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (reporting mark DME) is a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Before its purchase, it was the largest Class II railroad in the United States, operating across South Dakota and southern Minnesota in the Northern Plains of the United States.Portions of the railroad also extended into Wyoming, Nebraska, …

Lunenburg / ˈ l uː n ə n b ɜːr ɡ / is a port town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada.Founded in 1753, the town was one of the first British attempts to settle Protestants in Nova Scotia.. The economy was traditionally based on the offshore fishery and today Lunenburg is the site of Canada's largest secondary fish-processing plant.

United States. Within American society, ideas of social Darwinism reached their greatest prominence during the Gilded Age—predominantly through the rationale of the late 19th-century industrial titans such as John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) and Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919).

As of the census of 2000, there were 13,948 people, 4,752 households, and 3,568 families residing in the county.The racial makeup of the county was 94.59% White, 4.38% Black or African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.06% from other races, and 0.65% from two or more races. 0.61% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

USS Boise (CL-47) was a light cruiser of the Brooklyn class in the United States Navy.The cruiser was named for Boise, the capital city of the state of Idaho. Commissioned in 1938, she saw extensive service during World War II, taking part in fighting in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters. Following the war the ship was decommissioned in 1946 and lay idle until sold to …

Wartime service. Sackville ' s keel was laid down as Patrol Vessel 2 at the Saint John Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Saint John, New Brunswick in early 1940, the second of the Flower-class corvettes ordered by the Royal Canadian Navy.She was launched on 15 May 1941 by Mrs. J. E. W. Oland, wife of the captain of the port, with the Mayor and entire town …

Maple Leaf Gardens is a historic building located at the northwest corner of Carlton Street and Church Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.The building was initially constructed in 1931 as an arena to host ice hockey games, though it has since been reconstructed for other uses.. Today, Maple Leaf Gardens is a multi-purpose facility, with Loblaws occupying retail space on the …

The Battle of Seven Oaks was a violent confrontation in the Pemmican War between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West Company (NWC), rivals in the fur trade, that took place on 19 June 1816, the climax of a long dispute in western Canada. The Métis people fought for the North West Company, and they called it "the Victory of Frog Plain" (la Victoire de …