Coronado was born into a noble family in Salamanca, Spain, in 1510 as the second son of Juan Vásquez de Coronado y Sosa de Ulloa and Isabel de Luján. Juan Vásquez held various positions in the admi ...
Urdaneta was born in the town of Ordizia in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa, Spain. He would have gone to sea at a young age, as was typical of the time.Exploration Route from Philippines to Acapulco, ...
Jacques Cartier was born in 1491 in Saint-Malo, the port on the north-west coast of Brittany. Cartier, who was a respectable mariner, improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Mary Catherine des ...
Further information: List of Texas sports teams, and List of University Interscholastic League eventsWhile American football has long been considered "king" in the state, Texans today enjoy a wide var ...
The most common accent and/or dialect spoken by natives throughout Texas is sometimes referred to as Texan English, which itself is a sub-variety of a broader category of American English known as Sou ...
Within Mexico, tensions continued between federalists and centralists. In early 1835, wary Texians formed Committees of Correspondence and Safety. The unrest erupted into armed conflict in late 1835 a ...
The name Texas, based on the Caddo word tejas meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in East Texas.During the Spanish c ...
On September 10, 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center reported that a strong earthquake, ranking 6.0 on the Richter scale, occurred about 250 miles (400 km) west-sou ...
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the southeast limit of the Gulf of Mexico as follows:A line joining Cape Catoche Light (21°37′N 87°04′W) with the Light on Cape San Antonio in C ...
Literature William Faulkner uses the Mississippi River and Delta as the setting for many hunts throughout his novels. It has been proposed that in Faulkner's famous story, The Bear, young Ike first be ...
On May 8, 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto became the first recorded European to reach the Mississippi River, which he called Río del Espíritu Santo ("River of the Holy Spirit"), in the area ...
Metro Area PopulationMinneapolis-Saint Paul 3,615,901St. Louis 2,900,605Memphis 1,316,100New Orleans 1,214,932Baton Rouge 802,484Quad Cities, IA-IL 382,630St. Cloud, MN 189,148La Crosse, WI 133,365Cap ...
The word itself comes from Messipi, the French rendering of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Algonquin) name for the river, Misi-ziibi (Great River). See below in History section for additional information. ...
?lvar Nú?ez Cabeza de Vaca was born around 1490 into a hidalgo family, the son of Francisco de Vera and Teresa Cabeza de Vaca y de Zurita, in the town of Jerez de la frontera. Despite their status ...
Main article: History of the Marshall IslandsThe Marshall Islands were settled by Micronesians in the 2nd millennium BC. Little is known of this early history. People traveled by canoe between islands ...
