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For a verification of these facts study the history of the United States. Historical Geography Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1888, by John F. Smith, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Midwestern United States. The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Schoolchildren's Blizzard, School Children's Blizzard, [2] or Children's Blizzard, [3] hit the U.S. Great Plains on January 12, 1888. With an estimated 235 deaths, it is the world's 10th deadliest winter storm on record.
The Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great Blizzard of '88 or the Great White Hurricane (March 11–14, 1888), was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history. The storm paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine, [1][2] as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada. [3] Snow fell from 10 to 58 inches (25 ...
John Smith is credited with initiating American literature, and wrote in the tradition of geographic literature, the book being written to explain colonizing opportunities to Englishmen. [4] His numerous publications also offered practical advice on seamanship and colonization, and his literary achievements were probably more important to ...
I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form. Was like the stillness in the air. Between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had wrung them dry, And breaths were gathering sure. For that last onset, when the king. Be witnessed in his power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away.
www.rgs.org. The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences, the society has 16,000 [1] members, with its work reaching the public through ...
The Royal Geographical Society was founded in England in 1830, although the United Kingdom did not get its first full chair of geography until 1917. The first real geographical intellect to emerge in United Kingdom geography was Halford John Mackinder, appointed reader at Oxford University in 1887.
The 1848 Tampa Bay hurricane (also known as the Great Gale of 1848) was the strongest known hurricane to impact the Tampa Bay area of the U.S. state of Florida.Along with the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane, it is one of only two major hurricanes to make landfall along Central Florida's west coast since Florida became a United States territory in 1821.