Native Americans
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Here is a Washington Post article discussing the consequences for one particular Native American tribe of the arrival of the Mayflower in America just over four centuries ago. As you can see, those consequences weren’t very positive but the Pilgrims themselves are rarely mentioned, except at Thanksgiving.
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No, don’t crane your necks! It’s supposed to be upside down, as you’ll see at this site, from which the extract below is taken:- “….Every year as December rolls in, some 2 billion people start to feel the Christmas cheer. While the celebration is primarily a Christian one honouring the birth of Jesus, its traditions…
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This article might seem to be solely about Chief Sitting Bull and his great-grandson, and a new method of proving DNA and so, but here’s the penultimate paragraph: “….Dr. Willerslev said it was possible, for example, that the methodology could help solve one of England’s most confounding cold cases: the fate of the…
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Nothing to do with Richard—except obliquely—but the parallels are interesting anyway.
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Why do the Salem Witch Trials continue to fascinate after three hundred and twenty five years? Why do tourists and locals, wiccans, witches, warlocks and wizards continue to walk the crowded streets of this pretty little seaside city in Massachusetts in search of magic and mayhem? What propels them to stroll the narrow streets, licking…
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