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Today the area is barren, but a thousand years ago there were trees everywhere and the area likely was used as winter stopover point, where Vikings repaired their boats and sat out bad weather. It's not quite clear if the area was a permanent settlement, but it is clear that the expansion-minded Norsemen were here long before Columbus. In the 1930s many Americans did not want to become ensnared in a bloody war for the sake of distant China, or in what some Americans saw as war to perpetuate the British empire. (Photo by Ralph Morse/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images) Born in rural Mississippi to a poor unwed teenage mother, Winfrey got her start in television news before taking over a morning talk show in Chicago in 1984. Two years later, she launched her own nationally syndicated talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, which would go on to become the highest rated in TV history. Celebrated for her ability to talk candidly about a wide range of issues, Winfrey spun her talk show success into a one-woman empire—including acting, film and television production and publishing.Mercator 1587 | Envisioning the World | The First Printed Maps". lib-dbserver.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 12 September 2020 . Retrieved 12 September 2020. In 1937, an influential Catholic group known as the Knights of Columbus successfully lobbied both Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt to honor Christopher Columbus with a national holiday. They were eager to have a Catholic hero celebrated in regard to America’s founding. Pauketat, Timothy R. (23 February 2012). The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology. OUP US. p.96. ISBN 978-0-19-538011-8. North America Fast Facts". World Atlas.com. Archived from the original on 23 June 2013 . Retrieved 16 June 2013. a b c d e f g "Religious Composition by Country, 2010–2050". www.pewforum.org. Archived from the original on 21 December 2019 . Retrieved 17 February 2022.

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Europe's colonization in North America led to most North Americans speaking European languages, including English, Spanish, and French, and the cultures of the region commonly reflect Western traditions. However, relatively small parts of North America in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central America have indigenous populations that continue adhering to their respective pre-European colonial cultural and linguistic traditions. Perhaps this is why America itself wasn’t named after Columbus and instead a Florentine explorer named Amerigo Vespucci. It was Vespucci who put forth the then-radical idea that Columbus landed on a different continent that was completely separate from Asia. Science has shown that during the last ice age, people journeyed across an ancient land bridge connecting modern-day Russia to modern-day Alaska. Known as the Bering Land Bridge, it’s now submerged underwater but it lasted from about 30,000 years ago to 16,000 years ago. Of course, this would provide ample time for curious humans to explore. Born in Iceland around 970 A.D., Erikson likely grew up in Greenland before sailing east to Norway when he was around 30 years old. It was here that King Olaf I Tryggvason converted him to Christianity, and inspired him to spread the faith to Greenland’s pagan settlers. But shortly thereafter, Erikson instead arrived in America around 1000 A.D.Digging for Diamonds 24/7 Under Frozen Snap Lake". Wired. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011 . Retrieved 1 June 2011. Office Québécois de la langue francaise. "Status of the French language". Government of Quebec. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011 . Retrieved 10 November 2010.

Around the same time, the mechanization of spinning and weaving had revolutionized the textile industry in England, and the demand for American cotton soon became insatiable. Production was limited, however, by the laborious process of removing the seeds from raw cotton fibers, which had to be completed by hand. Definition of major areas and regions". United Nations. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019 . Retrieved 3 October 2007. North American Region". The Trilateral Commission. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012 . Retrieved 30 May 2011. a b Waugh, David (2000). "Manufacturing industries (chapter 19), World development (chapter 22)". Geography, An Integrated Approach (3rded.). Nelson Thornes Ltd. pp.563, 576–579, 633, and 640. ISBN 978-0-17-444706-1. Rosenberg, Matt (11 April 2020). "Ranking the 7 Continents by Size and Population". ThoughtCo. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020 . Retrieved 27 August 2020.Prior to the arrival of European explorers and colonists in North America, the natives of North America were divided into many different polities, ranging from small bands of a few families to large empires. They lived in several culture areas, which roughly correspond to geographic and biological zones that defined the representative cultures and lifestyles of the indigenous people who lived there, including the bison hunters of the Great Plains and the farmers of Mesoamerica. Native groups also are classified by their language families, which included Athapascan and Uto-Aztecan languages. Indigenous peoples with similar languages did not always share the same material culture, however, and were not necessarily always allies. Anthropologists speculate that the Inuit of the high Arctic arrived in North America much later than other native groups, evidenced by the disappearance of Dorset culture artifacts from the archaeological record and their replacement by the Thule people.