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1530’s, created the English protestant reformation. English buccaneers swarmed out upon shipping lanes, they seized spanish ships to promote protestantism. First English attempt at colonization was in 1585 on North carolina's Roanoke Island, they called it “Virgin Queen”, it quickly failed. Economic depression hit England in the the late 1500s caused many people to lose their homes. Along with the fact that only eldest sons were able to inherit

Within days after Lanes return to Roanoke Island from Weapemeoc, he wrote historian and geographer Richard Hakluyt that they had: “discovered the mainland to be the goodliest soil under the cope of heaven, so abounding with sweet trees, that bring such sundry rich and most pleasant gummes, grapes of such greatness, yet wild, as France, Spain nor Italy hath no greater” (Carpenter, Jeannine). One of the islands they persuade looked like a perfect island to settle. In another letter he sent to Sir

Sundarban The Sundarbans (Bengali সুন্দরবন, Shundorbôn) is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. The name Sundarban can be literally translated as "beautiful jungle" or "beautiful forest" in the Bengali language (Sundar, "beautiful" and ban, "forest" or "jungle"). The name may have been derived from the Sundari trees that are found in Sundarbans in large numbers. Alternatively, it has been proposed that the name is a corruption of Samudraban (Bengali: সমুদ্রবন

Bader Alomireni Kerri Bennett Comp 1 27 June 2017 Spanish taxation issues The Spanish taxation structure has proved to be a major hitch particularly to footballers and other high earning professionals. Foreign professionals have been the hardest hit by the taxation policies in the country. Generally, the taxes are levied by the federal government as well as the regional governments. Different taxes are imposed depending on the source. The most common tax forms are: income tax, corporate tax, value

colony. However White was unable to return to Roanoke Island for over two years due to the Spanish Armada that attacked England. Once the war was over and England won against the Spanish, when he went back to the island there was no one on the island. The only sign of the colonists were the letters “CROATOAN” which was a Native the island for the colonists, but unfortunately there trace of them left. Thirty years later, the Roanoke Island colonists is left a

Some forms of government can be horrible and unjust, but other types, when they are taken seriously, can be great. If you are a fascist, then tyranny might be the best for you...if you are ruling. Other times, if you have a group of people who only trust their belief of a god or gods, then you might want to live under theocracy. There are many forms of government, with some that fit more than others, and some that just don’t fit at all. Out of the many forms of government, one is a democracy. There

from building materials to furniture, everting about your home improvement. Today, the Home Depot is the world 's largest home improvement specialty retailer, with 2,274 retail stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, the territories of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, Canada and Mexico. 1,977 stores of them in the U.S. about 385,000 Employees around the world. As of the end of the first quarter of 2016, The Home Depot about 298 international operations represent 13.1 percent of store base. The Company

Trinidad, and, once winning a government scholarship, in European nation at University college, Oxford. He worked shortly for the BBC as a author and editor for the 'Caribbean Voices' programme. he's a Noble Prize-winning British author acknowledged for the comic early novels of island, the bleaker later novels of the broader world, and also the chronicles of his life and travels.Naipaul has revealed quite thirty books, each of fiction and nonfictional prose, over some fifty years. House for mr Biswas

The Pirates of Penzance was an opera performed by the Southwest Texas Opera Workshop. The Pirates of Penzance, composed by Gilbert & Sullivan, is a light-hearted parody of the traditional opera. This opera takes place somewhere in the British Virgin Islands. It is about a boy, Federic, who is to be apprenticed by his nurse, Ruth, to become a pilot. Ruth mistakes the word pilot for pirate and apprentices him to a band of pirates. She, too, remains with them as a maid-of-all-work.      Act

thirteen British colonies could be divided into three geographic areas: New England, Middle, and Southern. Each of these had specific economic, social, and political developments that were unique to the regions. European nations came to the Americas to increase their wealth and broaden their influence over world affairs. The first permanent British colony was established in Jamestown in the Chesapeake Bay region by the Virginia Company. To honor the memory of Elizabeth I, the never married “Virgin Queen”