Short Facts about United States and United Kingdom

The United Kingdom is in the north-west of Europe between the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. There are four countries in the United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are around 59,000,000 people living in the UK. Around 48,000,000 of these people live in England. London is the capital of England. The capital of Scotland is Edinburgh, the capital of Wales is Cardiff a ...

Date added: 18 November '07

The McCarthy Witch Hunts

by Herminne Tonita - The late 1940s and the 1950s were anxious years for Americans. Despite their prosperity they were worried by fears of war. The nation they feared was the Soviet Union. They believed that the Soviet Union's communist way of running a country was cruel and wrong. Some Americans saw communism as a spreading disease. Communism was thought to threaten both the freedom of indi ...

Date added: 23 June '07

The First Americans

by Herminne Tonita - At daybreak, on the morning of Friday, August 3rd, 1492, an Italian adventurer named Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain to find a new way from Europe to Asia. His aim was to open up a shorter trade route between the two continents. In Asia he intended to load his three small ships with silks, spices and gold and sail back to Europe as a rich man. Columbus first sai ...

Date added: 04 May '07