Monthly Archives: April 2022

First Nations – Humans populate the land (Atlanta and Me supplement two)

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The language map I used to guide my exploration of First Nations in Canada, once again proved helpful as I turned my attention to earliest humans to inhabit the southeastern United States. Their languages belong to a group identified as …

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Before Atlanta, before African slaves and Europeans, before Muscogee (Atlanta and Me supplement one)

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In the time before humans. If we took the WABAC Machine far enough into the past, we would see that many of the same forces that shaped Montreal and eastern Canada also played a part in shaping the geology of …

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Notes on the XXVI Olympiad – Atlanta 1996 (Atlanta and Me addendum)

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There are, perhaps, three indelible images and one infamous but nevertheless unforgettable event associated with the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Let’s take a look. The images. The opening and closing ceremonies have come a long way since they made their first …

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Atlanta and Me

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Todd’s Olympic Games host cities tour visits Atlanta. My first visit to Atlanta happened a year or so after my first journey to Montreal. Although I can cite the three specific times I traveled to Montreal, all I can say …

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Wooden ships on the water – the Europeans arrive (Montreal and Me supplement three)

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As I noted in the first post about Montreal, Jacques Cartier was the first European to have contact with the Haudenosaunee in 1534. He reached what is now Montreal on his second voyage in 1535 in what would have been …

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