2014年3月30日星期日

Only later would they move south closer to the mouth of the Kaw



étienne de Veniard, sieur de Bourgmont,What stocked the Nanjing machine, though, was Shi's upgrade of "Crab Villa": an edible container that neither broke the crabs' legs nor suffocated them Silicone gifts. stepped on shore exactly 300 years ago this month. The first European to visit this area, he later would make a positive report:From all the Missouris River can be gotten furs of every kind, very fine and good, as the climate there is very cold. Higher up is found another river which flows, into the Missouris, called the Ecanz River, on which there is a tribe of the same name, allies and friends of the French.These friends of the French we recognize today as the Kansa, whose big village actually was on a hill above Atchison, Kan. Only later would they move south closer to the mouth of the Kaw. 

Bourgmont today is remembered by historians for his "Exact Description of Louisiana" and "The Route to Be Taken to Ascend the Missouri River." That year in 1714, he pushed on north to find the "Rivière Nebraskier," which we know as the Platte.His writings would delight Parisian cartographers and impress the French king and his ministers, who were striving, from across an ocean,The National Security Agency set it in motion in 2006 and the vast network of supercomputers,morphsuit switches and wiretaps began gathering Americans' phone and Internet records by the millions, looking for signs of terrorism. to impose their will on those limitless forests, lakes,Shi says he came up with this idea one day, long after hairy crab season had ended Lady bags, when he found a crab hiding under his sofa. bayous and prairies they called Nouveau France. 
When Bourgmont came through in 1714,The Cuban government charges $100 for a passport,uv resin and the cost of a round-trip ticket can run to several hundred dollars. it was four years before New Orleans was founded, 50 before St. Louis, even longer until the first Frenchman stepped foot in the village named for wild onions: Chicago. 

What the plaques and markers will not tell you is that at the time, Bourgmont officially was still a wanted deserter from the Troupes de la Marine, a disreputable fornicator and what they called a coureur de bois runner of the woods.But this trip was a turning point in his success story.This bold rogue had the honor of introducing the Old World to the 433,000 square mile Missouri River basin, a territory twice as large as France itself.One might say Bourgmont's life,Pickles added that with the growth of mobile payments linked to credit Menstrual Cup and debit cards, end-consumers should face a better deal. if not our history, was shaped by a surly cur.Bourgmont came from Normandy. He had been caught poaching on a monastery's lands, and rather than pay the 100 livre fine, he ran to the coast to catch a ship.New France which started more or less at the mouth of the St. Lawrence Seaway and ended somewhere south and west when one bumped into a touchy Spaniard meant new opportunities for the brave and quick.

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