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    Mission San Luis was found to be the only settlement besides St. Augustine to house hundreds of Spanish residents among the Florida’s native people for at least three generations. It was known to early Europeans as the Apalachees native “Capital” village which was active from 1656 to 1704. In 1656 the Apalachee Indians decided to move their village to the second highest hill in present-day Tallahassee‚ where Mission San Luis is currently located off Tennessee Street. Using groups of palm-thatches

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    My Exploration Of Three Mexican Cities The three cities that I chose to visit were Cozumel‚ Mazatlan‚ and San Miguel De Allende. I would visit Cozumel in the spring because of the nice weather‚ Mazatlan in the fall for the many festivals‚ and San Miguel in the summer for the sightseeing. Cozumel’s history is filled with excitement. The Mayans were believed to have settled there first. This has been shown from the age of many artifacts found in the city. This island was sacred to the maya moon

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    The great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a powerful earthquake that shook mainly the city of San Francisco (USA) the morning of April 18‚ 1906. The earthquake was of magnitude between 7.9 and 8.6 degrees Mw1 and its epicenter was according to the experts of the United States Geological Survey‚ on the coast of Daly City and southwest of San Francisco. The main tremors began at 05:12 in the morning along the San Andrés fault. It was felt on the Pacific coast from Oregon to Los Angeles and inland

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    Francisco de Miranda was the person who originally created the common yellow‚ blue and red flag of Gran Colombia that Colombia‚ Ecuador and Venezuela‚ with slight variations‚ share today. Miranda gave at least two sources of inspiration for his flag. In a letter written to Count Simon Romanovich Woronzoff in 1792‚ Miranda stated that the colors were based on a theory of primary colors given to him by the German writer and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Miranda described a late-night conversation

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    San Francisco is located in northern California‚ a hilly city at the tip of a peninsula‚ surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay. The city has a fairly large population of 400‚000 people‚ however‚ it wasn’t always large. The California Gold Rush of 1848 turned a small population into what it is now. It became America’s largest city west of the Mississippi River until 1920 when it lost its title to Los Angeles. All that changed when the 1906 earthquake struck. On April 18‚

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    ITM 100 Case Study Question Final San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Vincent Lin 500523506 1) What are the business goals of SFPUC? How is knowledge management related to those goals? The business goals of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is to encourage efficient use of water and reducing water pollution‚ which is done by offering education‚ technical and financial assistance to all of its customers. The SFPUC provides water‚ treats wastewater and supplies municipal

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    The Third of May 1808 by Francisco de Goya | The painting: The Third of May‚ 1808 On 2nd of May 1808‚ when the Napoleon’s army invaded Madrid‚ the citizens of Madrid revolted against them. The French army took revenge on the citizens of Madrid on the following day‚ 3rd of May 1808‚ by executing hundreds of the rebellions along with the innocents. Goya illustrated this horrifying event in his painting The third of May‚ 1808. On the left side of the painting is a man in white kneeling

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    Payton Bockenstedt Professor Gilbert Art Appreciation 1301 17 June 2018 Look At Me Francisco de Goya witnessed the invasion of Spain by Napoleon Bonaparte’s French forces. This caused an mass uprising in Madrid that was brutally suppressed by the soldiers. This suppression prompted Goya to paint both Executions of the Third of May‚ 1808‚ along with the prequel piece‚ The Second of May‚ 1808. Goya painted in Executions of the Third of May‚ 1808‚ a Spanish man the target for an execution‚ surrounded

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    HistoryMission San Gabriel was founded on September 8‚ 1771 by fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera. The planned site for the Mission was along the banks of the Río de los Temblores (the River of the Earthquakes—the Santa Ana River). The priests chose an alternate site on a fertile plain located directly alongside the Rio Hondo in the Whittier Narrows.[11] The site of the Misión Vieja (or "Old Mission") is located near the intersection of San Gabriel Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue in Montebello‚ California

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    “Letter from Francisco Vazquez de Coronado to the King of Spain (October 20‚ 1541)” A myth told by the early Spanish explorers of North America about the Seven Cities of Cibola was that it was “a legendary place of beautiful and precious metals and jewels” (Coronado 1541‚ 5). Over the years historians have proved many of myths to be either true or false statements undergone by evidence. That is exactly what Francisco Vazquez de Coronado had set out to do. Upon Coronado’s expedition to

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