Geography of Maine Maine is divided into three distinct regions; Atlantic Ocean Coastal Lowlands, Central Highlands and Appalachian mountain ranges in the northwestern reaches of the state. The scattered Longfellow Mountains, the state’s main range, are considered an extension of New Hampshire’s White Mountains. They were named by the Maine legislature (in 1959) for Henry…
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Louisiana Geography and Famous Natives
Geography of Louisiana The sea level salt marsh stretches along much of Louisiana’s ever-changing Gulf of Mexico coastline, and inland for up to 25 miles in some spots. From there, the land rises gently into a wide coastal plain (or prairie) with a few rolling hills to the east and west. From central Louisiana to…
Kentucky Geography and Famous Natives
Geography of Kentucky The Cumberland (or Appalachian) Plateau dominates the eastern third of Kentucky. It is a heavily forested area of hills and mountains, and contains the state’s highest point, Black Mt., at 4,139 feet. The (North-central) Bluegrass region is a series of rolling hills and grasslands. It gets its colorful name from bluegrass, a…
Kansas Geography and Famous Natives
Kansas geography The Great Plains of North America slope east from the Rocky Mountains, extending south from Canada, through Kansas, and on into Texas. The fertile shortgrass prairies and rolling plains of central and eastern Kansas are hilly in many places, especially directly east of Wichita in the Flint Hills, as well as in the…
Iowa Geography and Famous Natives
Geography of Iowa During the new large parts of the Ice Age, central and northern Iowa were covered by glaciers. When those masses of ice receded (or melted), they left their mark across this land. In north central Iowa, a large expanse of fertile land known as Des Moines Petal was once covered by the…
Indiana Geography and Famous Natives
Geography of Indiana To the north, along the edges of Lake Michigan, drifting sandhills cover the Indiana coastline. Major glaciers from the last Ice Age have certainly left their marks in northern Indiana, as the rolling land is rocky, and dotted with dozens of small lakes. The north central part of the state is the…
Illinois Geography and Famous Natives
Geography of Illinois From the shoreline of Lake Michigan, inland for 8-10 miles, the land is great. From the Chicago suburbs moving west toward the Iowa border, the land gradually rises into a hilly region in the far northwest. The state’s highest point, Charles Mund, at 1,235 ft., is located there. The southern two-thirds of…
Idaho Geography and Famous Natives
Geography of Idaho Literally covered from north to south by the Rocky Mountains, Idaho contains dozens and dozens of individual mountain ranges. The most significant include the Bitterroots, which stretch along much of its border with Montana, and the Caribou, Clearwater, Owyhee, Salmon River, Sawtooths, and Devils Seven rows. The Continental Divide (imaginary line) indicates…
Georgia Geography and Famous Natives
Geography of Georgia Northern Georgia is covered by the southern rims of the Appalachians. The heavily forested Blue Ridge Mountains, famed for their bluish color when seen from afar, form the eastern front of the Appalachians from Georgia to Pennsylvania. The highest point of the state is located here; Bald Brasstown, 4,784 feet. The Appalachians,…
Florida Geography and Famous Natives
Florida geography The Florida Peninsula is a diverse collection of islands, swamps, springs, swamps, and hundreds of small lakes, rivers, and bodies of water. The earth is divided into four main regions; Gulf Coast/Atlantic Ocean coastal plains, highlands (hilly region) of the north and northwest, swampy Everglades of the far south, and the Florida Keys….
Delaware Geography and Famous Natives
Delaware geography Much of Delaware’s land is very flat, averaging only 58 feet above sea level. The only significant exceptions are the rolling hills of the Piedmont Plateau, which covers the northern edges of the state; the state’s highest point is located there, rising to 447 feet. The Coastal Plain, covering most of Delaware, is…
Connecticut Geography and Famous Natives
Geography of Connecticut The jagged, and rocky coastline of Connecticut’s Atlantic Ocean is a remnant of the last Ice Age. It is a mixture of bays, inlets, tiny islands, estuaries and a few sandy beaches. From the narrow coastal lowlands, the land rises into the central hills and low mountains of the north. Eastern Connecticut…
Colorado Geography and Famous Natives
Colorado geography The Great Plains of North America slope east from the Rocky Mountains, extending south from Canada, covering the eastern parts of Colorado. Located at the base of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado’s mean (mean) elevation ( 6,811 ft.) is the highest of any US state. Within the state, over 50 peaks reach or exceed…
California Geography and Famous Natives
California geography From the giant redwoods of the northwest to the Mars-like landscapes of the southeast; from snowy mountain peaks to its fertile valleys, California presents (arguably) the most diverse series of landforms in the entire United States. Fronted by the sandy beaches of its Pacific coastline, California’s land is rapidly rising into the steep…
Arkansas Geography and Famous Natives
Arkansas geography The topography of Arkansas varies rather substantially from northwest to southeast. The Ozark Plateau extends through parts of Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma, and on into Arkansas. This area of low mountains, hills and deep valleys is heavily forested and is marked by many small rivers and streams. South of the Ozarks, the Arkansas…
Arizona Geography and Famous Natives
Arizona flags The state flag of Arizona was designed and adopted in 1927. It is divided into two halves. The upper part consists of thirteen alternating yellow and red rays that represent the thirteen original colonies of America. Because Arizona is a western state, the rays show the sun setting. The colors of the rays…
Alaska Geography and Famous Natives
Geography of Alaska Wild and beautiful Alaska is home to majestic mountains, glaciers, active volcanoes, huge trails of forested land and some of the planet’s most varied extremes of cold, heat, rain, snow and wind. In addition, Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state of the United States. The largest geographic areas (from…
Alabama Geography and Famous Natives
Alabama geography In the northern and northeastern regions of Alabama, and along much of its border with Georgia, the lands are hilly and mountainous. The central, western, and southwestern regions are covered by rolling field plains that slope gently west into the Mississippi, and south into the Gulf of Mexico. The Cumberland Plateau in the…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Overview
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Country formed by an archipelago in the chain of the Lesser Antilles. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines lies between Saint Lucia to the north and Grenada to the south, with the Caribbean Sea to the west and the Atlantic to the east. Its territory has a total area of 345 km², and its coasts measure about 84 km. It…
Population of Canada
Population of individual provinces and territories (2003, thousand people): Central region – Ontario (12,240), Quebec (7,490); Atlantic region – Newfoundland and Labrador (520), Nova Scotia (940), New Brunswick (750), Prince Edward Island (140); Steppe region (“Prairies”) – Manitoba (1160), Saskatchewan (990), Alberta (3150); Pacific – British Columbia (4150); Far North – Yukon (31), Northwest Territories…
Easter in the USA
Does the “Easter Bunny” also exist in the USA? Some of those who want to emigrate and dream of a life in the USA are sure to ask that. You can take a deep breath: Easter is one of the official US holidays. Find out more about the beautiful Easter customs of the Americans! This…
Mexico Literature in the Mid-nineteenth Century
A multiplicity of literary forms appears overall in the mid-nineteenth century, and there is a leaven of interests and problems in the more general life of culture, which find full correspondence in the articulated and for some time turbid terrain of political and civil struggles. The constitutional project of 1857 – the so-called “Reforma” –…
United States Music
THE ELABORATION OF ORIGINAL FORMS AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR Only after the First World War was it possible to develop, against the prevailing academicism of the institutions, a real innovative approach which is characterized, in the general acceptance of the most advanced acquisitions of the European avant-gardes, by a marked individualism and a lively…
How to Get to Bahamas
Arrival Bahamas Airplane: from Germany, Austria and Switzerland you can reach the Bahamas with British Airways (stopover in London), Delta Airlines flies from Atlanta to the Bahamas and Swiss International flies from Zurich with a stopover in Miami to Nassau. Miami is an important departure point for the Bahamas, from here the national airline Bahamasair,…
Study in California State University, East Bay Review (11)
Planning a semester abroad It was clear to me from the start of my studies that I would like to spend a semester abroad in an English-speaking region. That’s why I started looking for the universities of my choice and comparing the courses from the second semester onwards. A little tip to find the right…
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The university, IHouse and other student housing facilities are located on a hill outside the center of Hayward and offer a great view of the city plus the entire surrounding area as far as San Francisco. In Hayward you can take the bus with the issued student ID, which of course also takes you to…
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Planning and preparation My goal was to conduct a 6-month study abroad in an English-speaking country. In view of the fact that the University of Erfurt’s internal exchange programs did not cover the study options in sociology, political science and economics in English-speaking countries, I decided to look for other options. An individual application to…
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Hello everyone, Anyone who decides to spend a semester abroad in America should be aware that this is ALWAYS associated with high costs. So now we’re done with the bad news. Flight My stay abroad started on January 1st, 2014 in Frankfurt. I went on a direct flight to San Francisco with Lufthansa. Here is…
Nicaragua Brief History
In the Spanish colonial empire After C. Columbus landed on the Caribbean coast in 1502, parts of what is now Nicaragua were conquered in 1522 by Spanish conquistadors under the leadership of G. González de Ávila. He named the country after the Nicarao who lived on the west coast. In 1524 F. Hernández de Córdoba…