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Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.94% of the population. There were 814 households, out of which 25.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.8% were married couples living together, 8.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.8% were non-families. 38.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 23. ...
For 14,000 years, the regular flooding of the Sac River has sealed and preserved this remarkable site. Now, each time the Stockton hydroelectric dam releases water, it cuts away at the bank. That bank is now just 10 feet (3.0 m) from the site, and eroding that bank at the startling rate of 4 feet (1.2 m) per year (Bush 2006; Joiner 2001).
In May 1673, Jesuit priest Jacques Marquette and French trader Louis Jolliet sailed down the Mississippi River in canoes along the area that would later become the state of Missouri. [1] The earliest recorded use of "Missouri" is found on a map drawn by Marquette after his 1673 journey, naming both a group of Native Americans and a nearby river ...
1670 A Geographical Description of the Four Parts of the World 1673 Britannia, or a Geographical Description of the Kingdom of England, Scotland and Ireland (average size 315 x 280 mm) 1681 Speed's Maps Epitomiz'd (average size 180 x 230 mm) 1685 Re-issued 1693 Re-issued in Cosmography and Geography 1715 Re-published by Thomas Taylor in England ...
1673 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1673rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 673rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 17th century, and the 4th year of the 1670s decade. As of the start of 1673, the ...
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
It has one runway designated 1/19 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,060 by 50 feet (933 x 15 m). [1] For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2020, the airport had 1,215 aircraft operations, an average of 23 per week: 83% general aviation and 17% military. At that time there were seven single-engine aircraft based at this airport. [1]
It was reportedly located near the mouth of the Grand River near present-day Brunswick, Missouri. Intended to be the linchpin in the vast New France empire stretching from Montreal to New Mexico, the fort was occupied from 1723 to 1726. It was the first multi-year European settlement in what is today the U.S. state of Missouri.