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Columbus then established a poorly located and short-lived settlement to the east, La Isabela, [139] in the present-day Dominican Republic. [145] By the end of 1494, disease and famine had killed two-thirds of the Spanish settlers there. [146] From April to August 1494, Columbus explored Cuba and Jamaica, then returned to Hispaniola. [147]
He primarily followed Route 50 from west to east, covering a distance of 3,234 miles (5,205 km). [140] Wardian aimed to log around 50 miles (80 km) a day and planned to be on his feet for around 11 to 15 hours a day. He documented his run on Strava and spent his days running with other local runners or listening to audiobooks when running alone.
The fleet then fought the winds, traveling only 32 miles over 25 days, and arriving at a plain on the north coast of Hispaniola on 2 January 1494. There, they established the settlement of La Isabela. [93] Columbus spent some time exploring the interior of the island for gold. Finding some, he established a small fort in the interior.
On the first day, September 4, 1838, the group traveled 21 miles (34 km) and camped at Chippeway village on the Tippecanoe River, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Rochester. They camped from William Polke's house to his trading post on the Tippecanoe River, a mile long of campfires. The second day they left 51 sick persons at Chippeway.
A list of the 10 longest-lived U.S. presidents, their age and the day they died, if applicable: 1. ... North Carolina State v Duke ... 10. Richard Nixon; 81 years, 103 days; died April 22, 1994 ...
[5] [14] [15] Cole, who lived to be 103, was the only participant to live to a higher age than the raid's leader, Jimmy Doolittle, who died in 1993 at age 96. [ 16 ] [ citation needed ] On September 19, 2016, the Northrop Grumman B-21 was formally named "Raider" in honor of the Doolittle Raiders. [ 17 ]
Some coping mechanisms to escape the emotional trauma of moving to the prairie was to continually move around to new locations, or to move back East. [3] Immigrants were particularly at risk for prairie madness. Immigrant families not only had to suffer from isolation, but the settlers who lived in their area often had different languages and ...
Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.