Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
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| The Origins of Voodoo in the Caribbean |
| Americans, at least in the United States, tend to blur the several events that eventually led to the European colonization of North America, associating Christopher Columbus with the landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620, despite the fact that Columbus died in 1506. |
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| History & Genealogy |
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| Galveston, Oh Galveston |
| Founded in 1839, Galveston, Texas was the harbor where Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca was shipwrecked in 1528. He and his crew named it Isla de Malhado, which translates to "Isle of Doom." |
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| The Anthropomorphic Egg and the English Civil War |
| An•thro•po•mor•phic adjective \ˌan(t)-thrə-pə-ˈmȯr-fik\ 1: Described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes 2: Ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things |
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| Radio |
| We all learned in school, if we were paying attention, that Guglielmo Marconi was the inventor of the radio in 1895 and patented it the next year. But Mr. Marconi did not just wake up one morning and realize he knew how to make a machine that would transmit a voice. No, of course not. |
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