Moses Austin was the first person to gain permission from Spain to bring Mexican American settlers into Texas. A militia is a group of soldiers acting as a military force. Moses Austin’s plan to bring 300 Anglo American families to Texas is referred to as the “Texas Venture”. In 1820,…
The Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame ( Salón de la Fama del Béisbol Cubano) is a hall of fame that honors eminent baseball players from Cuban baseball. By 1904, white Cubans, such as Juan Violá, were playing in the minor leagues, and in 1911 Rafael Almeida and Armando Marsans broke…
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The first recorded European to see the Mississippi River was a Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto in 1541. His large exploration party included hundreds of men and several ships. In May 1541, the army reached and crossed the Mississippi River, probably the first Europeans ever to do so. From there,…
The first cookies are thought to be test cakes bakers used to test the oven temperature. They date back as early as 7th Century A.D. Persia which is now Iran. They were one of the first countries to grow and harvest sugar cane. Even then, the world favorite chocolate chip…
The first European explorer to reach Asia by sea was Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese captain who arrived on the coast of India in 1498, six years after Christopher Columbus believed he had landed in Asia. Who was the first major explorer? The Vikings are thought to be the first…
Again, depending on how you define a mobile phone, or a cell phone, many people will point to the Martin Cooper as the creator of the first handheld mobile phone in 1973. Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first phone call of humankind that too to his competitor. Martin Cooper,…
Adam was the first man on earth and the father of the human race. God formed him from the earth, and for a short time, Adam lived alone. He arrived on the planet with no childhood, no parents, no family, and no friends. Perhaps it was Adam’s loneliness that moved…
… In 1953, Thomas Hart Benton was commissioned by the motion-picture company Norma Productions to create a painting for the film The Kentuckian (1955) starring Burt Lancaster. Lancaster played the frontiersman Big Eli Wakefield, who decides to leave Kentucky in the 1820s to move to Texas with his little son,…
One of the Confederacy’s most famous spies, Belle Boyd’s life played out like a James Bond character: she was betrayed by a lover, later captured taking Confederate papers to England, and fell in love with and married her captor. Famous Women Spies in the Civil War Famous Confederate spies include…