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The solar month of Karkata overlaps with its lunar month Shraavana, in Hindu lunisolar calendars. [4] [5] The Shraavana marks the middle of the monsoon season on the Indian subcontinent, and is preceded by the solar month of Mithuna, and followed by the solar month of Siṃha. [2] The Karkata month is called Adi in the Tamil Hindu calendar. [1]
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
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900: American Southwestern tribes trade with Indigenous peoples of Mexico to obtain copper bells cast through the lost-wax technique. 915 (exact date): Construction begins at Pueblo Bonito, the largest Ancestral Pueblo Great House. 1000: Discovery of Vinland by Leif Erikson and Norse colonization of North America.
Portsmouth Olde Towne Historic District, is a national historic district located at Portsmouth, Virginia.It encompasses 89 buildings. It is located in the primarily residential section of Portsmouth and includes a notable collection of Federal and Greek Revival style townhouses, known as "basement houses."
Stonega Historic District is a national historic district located at Appalachia, Wise County, Virginia. The district encompasses 80 contributing buildings in the coal company town of Stonega. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings built after the towns' founding in 1895.
1850 – Charles Lee Smith house built. [6] 1853 – Christ Episcopal Church built. [5] 1857 William Dallas Haywood becomes mayor. Peace Institute founded. [5] 1861 – May 20: North Carolina secedes from the United States and joins the Confederate States of America. 1865 April 13: Raleigh taken by Union forces. [12] Raleigh Institute founded. [13]
300 B.C. – Maize first grown in Eastern North America. 100 B.C. – A.D. 400 – The Hopewell tradition flourishes. 600 – Emergence of Mississippian culture. 700 – Use of the bow and arrow becomes widespread among peoples of Eastern North America. 1000 – Leif Ericson explores the east coast of North America. [1]