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I bet that does not include snow!

 

[Sentry18]

I bet that does not include snow!

Heck yeah it does! I love looking out at the snow covered lawn, roads, houses, etc. It's my favorite time of year by far!

 

[SheepDog]

Thank God for attic windows!

 

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Epstein must have been british.

 

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This seemed appropriate based on tomorrows "holiday".

 

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[SheepDog]

I wonder how many amps that would take...
I still haven't figured out how to set my laser printer to stun.

 

[Meerkat]

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I'm kinda on the " whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" way of thinking.
IMO society is just a important in the roll of forming a persons stability. Of course a father is important but its the morals and laws that is also important. Many good men grow up without fathers and many bad men grow up with fathers. Charity is a two edged sword, it makes weaklings out of men.
NOT AT ALL, saying fahters aren't important of course they are.
To becguse to be one of the worse things you could do,now its celebrated.

 

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Some Indian tribes also had a form of a Republic democracy that our founders used when writing the constitution

 

[Meerkat]

The forgotten massacre of French Huguenots in Florida,

The French had attempted a settlement in Florida in 1564 on the banks of St. John's River.

Though earlier, in 1534, French explorer Jacques Cartier mapped the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, the French Fort Caroline was the first French settlement in area of present-day United States. Fort Caroline was founded by French Protestant Christians.

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The forgotten massacre of French Huguenots in Florida
Bill Federer recounts history behind persecuted group that ended in tragedy

By Bill Federer
Published June 29, 2019 at 8:28pm
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Fort Caroline, Florida, 1564

The Pilgrims fled from England to Holland in 1607. When Spain threatened to invade Holland, the Pilgrims decided to flee again. They considered sailing to Guyana in South America, as they heard of its tropical climate.

Pilgrim Governor William Bradford wrote in Of Plymouth Plantation: "Some ... had thoughts and were earnest for Guiana. ... Those for Guiana alleged that the country was rich, fruitful, and blessed with a perpetual spring. ..."


Why did the Pilgrims change their minds? They were reminded of how close Guyana was to the "Spanish Main," the area of the Caribbean Sea controlled by Spain, and how Spanish soldiers massacred the French settlement of Fort Caroline, Florida.

Spain had claimed Florida since Juan Ponce de León's exploration in 1512, reputedly looking for the Fountain of Youth. Ponce de León named it La Florida as he explored it during the season of Pascua Florida ("Flowery Easter").

In the following years, Spaniards explored and attempted settlements:

• 1516 – Diego Miruelo explored the Tampa Bay area.
• 1517 – Francisco Hernández de Cordova explored southwest Florida.
• 1519 – Alonso Álvarez de Pineda mapped the Gulf of Mexico coast
• 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan set sail to circumnavigate the globe.
• 1521 – Ponce de León attempted a settlement near Charlotte Harbor.
• 1521 – Pedro de Quejo & Francisco Gordillo landed at Winyah Bay.
• 1521 – Hernán Cortés conquered Aztec Mexico.
• 1525 – Pedro de Quejo explored Amelia Island to Chesapeake Bay.
• 1526 – de Ayllón explored the South Carolina coast and attempted the settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape near Sapelo Sound, Georgia. As Dominican friars accompanied them, historians speculate the first Catholic Mass was celebrated in what what would be the United States.
• 1528 – Pánfilo de Narváez landed near Tampa Bay with 400 settlers. After eight years of long marches through swamps and shipwrecked rafts on the Texas coast, only five survived. Four returned to Mexico and Juan Ortiz was a captive of the Indians for 12 years.
• 1532 – Francisco Pizarro conquered Peru's Inca Empire.
• 1539 – Hernando de Soto, who had helped Pizarro conquer the Inca, landed in Tampa Bay. De Soto found Juan Ortiz, who related rumors of gold in Apalachee. De Soto seized Indians as guides, crossed Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, the Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, before dying in 1542 near the Mississippi.
• 1540 – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado looked for the Seven Cities of Gold, exploring Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, viewing the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River.
• 1542 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sailed up the coast of California.
• 1559 – Tristán de Luna y Arellano attempted to settle Pensacola Bay.
• 1561 – Angel de Villafañe attempted to settle Santa Elena (Port Royal Sound).

Indian attacks, tropical storms, hunger, diseases, and failure to find gold, resulted in the failure of Spanish settlements. Unfortunately, during this period, some Spanish conquistadors raided Indian villages, capturing and enslaving hundreds of natives.

The dominant aspect of these Spanish conquests convinced the Pilgrims not to attempt to settle near Spanish-controlled territories, as Pilgrim Governor William Bradford explained: "... but to this it was answered, that it was out of question. ... If they should there live, and do well, the jealous Spaniard would never suffer them long, but would displant or overthrow them, as he did the French in Florida."

The French had attempted a settlement in Florida in 1564 on the banks of St. John's River.

Though earlier, in 1534, French explorer Jacques Cartier mapped the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, the French Fort Caroline was the first French settlement in area of present-day United States. Fort Caroline was founded by French Protestant Christians known as Huguenots.

Why did the French Huguenots sail to Florida to attempt a settlement? They wanted to escape the Wars of Religion which had been ravaging France for over a century. During this era in Europe, whatever a king believed, his kingdom had to believe. There was little freedom of conscience, as governments dictated the religious beliefs of citizens and persecuted those believing differently.

Due to his hateful contempt for the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Spain, France's King Francis I did the unimaginable – he made an alliance with the Muslim Ottoman Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent. This was the first time a European monarch made such an alliance with a Muslim power, resulting in calls being made for Francis I to be excommunicated.

Francis I was originally tolerant of Protestants, but he soon turned to aggressively persecute them, having thousands killed in the Massacre of the Waldensians of Mérindol in 1545. Religious persecutions increased in France with battles and tragedies such as the Massacre of Wassy in 1562, the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, instigated by the queen consort Catherine de' Medici.

 

[Meerkat]

Only logical explanation for pyriaids is giants built them. but high texh giants because they are formed by circle of earth and they used pi 2.14 in figuring of circumfernce.

 

[Meerkat]

Maze aka corn was not half the size it is today. Th Indians propagated it into a kind of hybrid to make it larger. May not have that exactly right but it was improved by them.

 

[Supervisor42]

The forgotten massacre of French Huguenots in Florida,
The French had attempted a settlement in Florida in 1564 on the banks of St. John's River.

Speaking of the French, a bunch of French-Canadians that had settled in Canada looked at each other and said "All this snow sux!" (and also being deported), they headed south and settled along the Mississippi river near the ocean.

"In the Great Expulsion (le Grand Dérangement), after the Battle of Fort Beauséjour beginning in August 1755 under Lieutenant Governor Lawrence, approximately 11,500 Acadians (three-quarters of the Acadian population in Nova Scotia) were expelled, their lands and property confiscated, and in some cases their homes burned. The Acadians were deported throughout the British eastern seaboard colonies from New England to Georgia. Although measures were taken during the embarkation of the Acadians to the transport ship, some families became split up. After 1758, thousands were transported to France. Most of the Acadians who went to Louisiana were transported there from France on five Spanish ships provided by the Spanish Crown to populate their Louisiana colony and provide farmers to supply New Orleans. The Spanish had hired agents to seek out the dispossessed Acadians in Brittany and the effort was kept a secret so as not to anger the French King. These new arrivals from France joined the earlier wave expelled from Acadia, creating the Cajun population and culture.

"The Spanish forced the Acadians they had transported to settle along the Mississippi River, to block British expansion, rather than Western Louisiana where many of them had family and friends and where it was much easier to farm. Rebels among them marched to New Orleans and ousted the Spanish governor. The Spanish later sent infantry from other colonies to put down the rebellion and execute the leaders. After the rebellion in December 1769 the Spanish Governor O'Reilly permitted the Acadians who had settled across the river from Natchez to resettle on the Iberville or Amite river closer to New Orleans

They settled in south Louisiana and were called "Acadians" which was later shortened to 'Cajuns.

They were successful, and to this day, most of my neighbors still have a French last name.

 

[Meerkat]

Speaking of the French, a bunch of French-Canadians that had settled in Canada looked at each other and said "All this snow sux!" (and also being deported), they headed south and settled along the Mississippi river near the ocean.


They settled in south Louisiana and were called "Acadians" which was later shortened to 'Cajuns.

They were successful, and to this day, most of my neighbors still have a French last name.

nteresting SuperV,thanks.Aunt lived in New Orleans, not far from French Quarters or thats what they called it then. I like this kind of subjects, will read this soon as I can.

 

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[Supervisor42]

nteresting SuperV,thanks.Aunt lived in New Orleans, not far from French Quarters or thats what they called it then. I like this kind of subjects, will read this soon as I can.

Many still speak "Cajun French" here which is different than French like Alabama rednecks do not speak 'English' like people in London.
The Cajun French language is still passed down from parents to children.
Most of the times I hear it spoken is when 2 locals are talking "around" an outsider.
Almost all of the dance music around here has lyrics in Cajun French:

 

[Bacpacker]

Wife dads family came down into upstate NY, Plattsburg, from near Quebec. She went up with her sister last year to look around the town, do some ancestry research. There is still a whole boat load of them living there.

 

[Meerkat]

Wife dads family came down into upstate NY, Plattsburg, from near Quebec. She went up with her sister last year to look around the town, do some ancestry research. There is still a whole boat load of them living there.

BacP, guess this means you and the wife get to visit Canada sometimes. I always wanted to see Canada, hear its beautiful. At this time in my life I'll just settle for The Crows Nest in Gloucester, Ma.

 

[Bacpacker]

We actually plan to do a round about trip into the northeast at some point. Maine, NH, Vermont, Upstate NY, and Canada of course. Nova Scotia in particular.

 

[Meerkat]

We actually plan to do a round about trip into the northeast at some point. Maine, NH, Vermont, Upstate NY, and Canada of course. Nova Scotia in particular.

That sounds like a great trip.
I've been wanting to go to Canada but also since I read the book' t the Perfect Storm I wanted ot see this place [Crows Nest ] too, Movie was good too. Book was better.

 

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