On the west coast, between 1910 and 1940, most were met by the wooden buildings of Angel Island. These immigrants were Australians and New Zealanders, Canadians, Mexicans, Central and South Americans, Russians, and in particular, Asians. The immigration station created on Angel Island in 1910, which replaced detention prisons on…
A skipper (sometimes also serving as the helmansperson, helmsman, or driver) is a person who has command of a boat or watercraft or tug, more or less equivalent to “captain in charge aboard ship.” At sea, or upon lakes and rivers, the skipper as shipmaster or captain has command over…
Aretha Franklin – Singer and entertainer. She was a child prodigy and recorded her first tracks at the age of fourteen years old. She dropped out of high school when she was fifteen years old to care for her first child. A dropout has no plan B. You don’t have…
Crane was stranded at sea for thirty hours when his ship, the SS Commodore, sank after hitting a sandbar. He and three other men were forced to navigate their way to shore in a small boat; one of the men, an oiler named Billie Higgins, drowned after the boat overturned.…
Paul supposedly dug out the Grand Canyon by dragging his axe behind him while he walked. Paul and Babe are reported to have created the land of 1,000 lakes by walking in the snow and leaving behind footprints, that later turned into lakes. Paul also created the Grand Teton Mountains…
IAS is a respectful and secure job. If you are concerned about payscale, then obviously an engineer can make more money than an ias. The sector also provides you opportunities to work in foreign. Good engineers get paid in crores. A talented software engineer can easily earn 20 Lakhs per…
One notorious casting that ultimately led to an actor leaving a popular movie occurred just before Fifty Shades of Grey started shooting. The role was supposed to have gone to Triple Frontier actor Charlie Hunnam; however, Hunnam left the project and Jamie Dornan was signed on in his stead. While…
Ralph Waldo Emerson coined this phrase in his essay, Self Reliance. Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.” To that he adds “To be great is to be misunderstood.” In context, Emerson…
Amid regular rationing of food in Britain, the United States Department of Agriculture encouraged the planting of victory gardens during the course of World War II. Though the gardens were first promoted in Europe and then the U.S. in the First World War, the story of the victory gardens really…
EPA’s Pacific Southwest (Region 9) implements and enforces federal environmental laws in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and 148 tribal nations. Certified Unified Program Agencies (CUPA) are responsible for implementing the following local environmental regulatory programs: Summaries of some local enforcement actions are available. Amended rule adopted by…