Columbia is the capital of South Carolina and the state’s largest city. The city was specifically created to be the state capital by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1786. Prior to that The Congarees, a frontier fort on the west bank of the Congaree River, was the site of a ferry established in 1754 [more...]
Well, first of all, the choice of Qatar puts a solid cap on buy cheap cialis online the legacy of FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who has taken the Cup around the globe in an effort to broaden the game’s social and political legacy. Qatar is the smallest nation to host a World Cup with only [more...]
California’s City of the Dead has a little over 1.5 million residents. About 1500 of those residents are alive. Near the beginning of the 20th century, San Francisco politicians began a campaign to move the cemeteries out of town by promoting the idea that cemeteries spread disease, the more important reason being that they wanted [more...]
Providence is the capital of Rhode Island and the state’s largest city. Providence, founded in 1636, is one of the oldest cities in the U.S. The area was previously occupied by the Narragansett Indians. Opposition to the Sugar Act, a tax that affected Providence’s international rum trade led to the first violence of the American [more...]
What is the Great Thurible? A – A long lost uncle by marriage that just left you wealthy. B – A Norse godling. C – A new super-hero with the ability to throw lighting bolts. D – None of the above. The answer is D. I’m sure most of you knew from the beginning that [more...]
Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania and the states 9th largest city. Harrisburg was incorporated in 1791, and became the Pennsylvania state capital in 1812. Harrisburg, well, actually two miles west at Sporting Hill, is the site of the northernmost battle of the American Civil War. And speaking of the Civil War, the National Civil [more...]
Salem is the capital of Oregon and the state’s third largest city. It was founded in 1842. Then it became the capital of the Oregon Territory in 1851, and was incorporated in 1857. The area of Salem has been inhabited for over 10,000 years. The Kalapuya peoples would gather on the plateau east and south [more...]
Oklahoma City is the capital of Oklahoma and the state’s largest city. Oklahoma City was settled on April 22, 1889, when the region known as the “unassigned lands” was opened in an event known as “The Land Run,” one of seven such ‘runs’ to open the state. The city is the nation’s third largest city [more...]
Columbus is the capital and largest city in Ohio and the state’s third largest metropolitan area behind Cincinnati and Cleveland. Prior to the state legislature’s decision about the location of a capital in 1812, Columbus did not exist. The city was designed from the first to be the state’s capital. Before that Ohio’s capital cities [more...]
Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota and the state’s second largest city. Bismarck was founded in 1872 and known as Edwinton. In 1873 the name was changed to Bismarck, in honor of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, in an effort to attract German investment. But the investment was little if anything. What gave [more...]
Raleigh is the capital of North Carolina and the state’s second largest city. The site of Raleigh was chosen as the location of a new state capital in 1788 and was officially established in 1792. Raleigh is one of the few cities in the United States that was expressly designed and built to serve as [more...]
Albany is the capital of the state of New York. Was first settled as the Dutch trading posts of Fort Nassau in 1614 and Fort Orange in 1624, was officially chartered as a city in 1686 and became the capital of New York in 1797. It was renamed Albany in 1664 after the English took [more...]
Santa Fe is the capital of New Mexico and the fourth-largest city in the state with Albuquerque being the largest. Santa Fe was originally occupied by a number of Pueblo Indian villages with founding dates in the 11th century. In 1610, it was made the capital of the Spanish controlled province of Nuevo Mexico, which [more...]
Trenton is the capital of New Jersey. Trenton can trace its history back at least 1719, with record of a constable being appointed for Trenton. Boundaries were recorded for Trenton Township in 1719, Trenton became New Jersey’s capital in1790, and the City of Trenton was formed in 1792. The first settlement which would later become [more...]
Concord is the capital of the state of New Hampshire. The area of Concord was first settled thousands of years ago by Abenaki Indians. European settlement was about 1727 by people from Haverhill, Massachusetts and on February 9, 1734, the town was incorporated as Rumford. It was renamed Concord in 1765. Some of its earliest [more...]
The Consolidated Municipality of Carson City is the Nevada state capital. It was founded about 1843 as the Eagle Station ranch. In 1858 Abraham Curry bought the Eagle Station ranch and named the settlement there Carson City after the Carson River. Following the discovery of gold and silver on the Comstock Lode in 1859, Carson [more...]
Krak des Chevaliers is a Crusader fortress in Syria and one of the premier preserved medieval military castles in the world. It is located west of the city of Homs and close to the border of Lebanon. It is administratively part of the Homs Governorate but is an excellent day-trip if headquartering in Hama or [more...]
Apamea, just to the northwest of Hama, Syria, was a treasure city of the Seleucid kings and was capital of the ancient province of Apamene. At various times the city was known as Pharmake, Pella, Cherronesos, and was the Biblical city of Shepham. Apamea was so closely tied to Jerusalem the first-fruits brought from that [more...]
Lincoln is the capital of Nebraska and the state’s second largest city. Lincoln was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster. Omaha had been the capital of the territory and when it was decided to move the capital to Lancaster, Omaha tried to block that move by renaming Lancaster as Lincoln. Much of the [more...]
The Alhambra (Calat Alhambra – “the red fortress”), is a fort and palace complex built during the mid 14th century by the Moorish rulers of Granada. The Alhambra's palaces were built for the last Muslim Emirs (Kings) to rule in Spain, the Nasrid dynasty. It was started in the thirteenth century by the founder of [more...]