Here a some data about the White House I can offer today:
The White House was called the President's House until the Civil War(1861-'65) when the name Executive Mansion came into use. Theodore Roosevelt titled it White House by executive order.
From Wikipedia I am reminded that the cornerstone of the White House Was laid on the 12th of October of 1792, the 300th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the Western Hemisphere. It wasn't occupied by a President until November of 1800. That November of 1800 President John Adams(1797-1801)and his wife Abigail moved into the unfinished President's House.
The White House has been enlarged, updated, modernized, strengthened, and more. President Truman had major had major repairs and refurbishing done.
Tell us a bit a bit about the home we provide our President.
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Monday, July 4, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Hopewell Exchange System
American Indians had peaceful interaction spheres among a variety of peoples going back as far as perhaps 8000 BC.
In this little post I intend to say a bit about trade spheres centered on the Mississippi River and relative to peoples called Mound Builders.
The earliest European visitors and explorers of what is now the US found the ones extent when they arrived, notable. By that time the Indian trade systems were far below their peak. Still, before the end if the 1500s the Spanish had begun to write of them. Before the end of the 1600s the French were participating in them. Even though by then many of the Indians' mounds and earthworks were already grown-over. By the 1700s, the English were finding the Indians a bit degenerate, but still worthy of manipulation. By the time Americans got to the upper Mississippi in the early 1800s a great many of them thought the Indians were worthless, incapable of mound or earthwork building. Few Americans, even intelligent and imaginative ones, saw any Indians as capable of managing long range interaction spheres.
Still, it was those same Americans who began looking into what some now call the Hopewell Culture.
I intend to write more of these things a later date. I look forward to your comments.
In this little post I intend to say a bit about trade spheres centered on the Mississippi River and relative to peoples called Mound Builders.
The earliest European visitors and explorers of what is now the US found the ones extent when they arrived, notable. By that time the Indian trade systems were far below their peak. Still, before the end if the 1500s the Spanish had begun to write of them. Before the end of the 1600s the French were participating in them. Even though by then many of the Indians' mounds and earthworks were already grown-over. By the 1700s, the English were finding the Indians a bit degenerate, but still worthy of manipulation. By the time Americans got to the upper Mississippi in the early 1800s a great many of them thought the Indians were worthless, incapable of mound or earthwork building. Few Americans, even intelligent and imaginative ones, saw any Indians as capable of managing long range interaction spheres.
Still, it was those same Americans who began looking into what some now call the Hopewell Culture.
I intend to write more of these things a later date. I look forward to your comments.
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