Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
History & Genealogy |
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| Jamestown: First Permanent American Colony |
| It seemed like a doomed location from the very beginning, but that stopped no one. In 1570, Jesuits from Spain set up a mission on the York River, and within six months, they were killed by local Indians. |
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| Sports & Recreation |
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| A Brief History of Kwanzaa |
| All holidays were invented at one time or another– Kwanzaa is probably the newest. Kwanzaa was born during the turbulent Sixties, in a time when Black Americans were demanding -and finally receiving- their civil rights. |
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| Sports & Recreation |
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| All About Coughing |
| I thought that I knew everything there was to know about coughs. But after a little research, it seems that I had a lot to learn and some of what I found is just plain bizarre! We are so accustomed to running to the drugstore for a bottle of cough syrup, but what about when there wasn’t a drugstore |
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| Local & Global |
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| The Founding of Rhode Island |
| England, in the 1600s, was not a place of religious freedom. In fact, it was not unusual for those who held beliefs deemed contrary to the official church to be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, and often all three. Many of those who came to the American colonies did so in order to escape persecution |
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