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  1. Editorial - Haiti: Right Result for the Wrong Reason (Americas.IRC.org)
      "On February 7, Haitian voters went to the polls to elect a president for the fourth time since 1990. Through great patience and determination they overcame official disorganization, incompetence, and discrimination, and handed their chosen candidate a landslide victory. Also for the fourth time, Haitian elites—with support from the international community—immediately began to undercut the victory, seeking at the negotiation table what they could not win at the polls." 02-06

  2. Pre-History of the Americas (Christian Science Monitor)
      "New finds from Oregon and Chile support the idea that they arrived 3,000 years earlier than previously thought."

  3. Coal Power Usage By State (AmericasPower.org)
      Provides a map (at the bottom of the page) for showing which energy sources each state uses. 08-08

  4. Horses by Breed (Planet-Pets.com) star
      Provides descriptions and pictures of horses by breed. Includes American Miniature Horse, American Saddlebred, Appaloosa, Arabian, Hanoverian, Morgan, Paint, Palomino, Quarter Horse, Standardbred, Tennessee Walking Horse, Thoroughbred, Trakehener, Connemara Pony, Pony of the Americas, Shetland Pony, and Welsh Pony. 8-00

  5. From Local Harvests to National Holiday (Smithsonian Institute)
      ost Americans are familiar with the Pilgrim's Thanksgiving Feast of 1621, but few realize that it was not the first festival of its kind in North America. Long before Europeans set foot in the Americas, native peoples sought to insure a good harvest with dances and rituals such as the Green Corn Dance of the Cherokees.

  6. Poll: Nation Polarized (CBS News)
      Provides "The 2000 election results famously illustrated by the red and blue divisions on the election night map - delineated two very different Americas: one comprised of mainly coastal states that voted Democratic, and another, mostly in the South and Midwest, which voted Republican. Coming, as it did, after years of increasingly strained partisan divisions in Congress, it appeared that America was deeply divided - and many wonder if those patterns will repeat themselves in 2004." 7-04

  7. Scientist: Man May Have Settled North America 50,000 Years Ago (CNN News)
      "Archaeologists say a site in South Carolina may rewrite the history of how the Americas were settled by pushing back the date of human settlement thousands of years."

      "An archaeologist from the University of South Carolina on Wednesday announced radiocarbon tests that dated the first human settlement in North America to 50,000 years ago -- at least 25,000 years before other known human sites on the continent." 11-04

  8. -07-19-05 Writing 5,000 Years Old Found (MSNBC News)
      "Archaeologists in Peru have found a “quipu” on the site of the oldest city in the Americas, indicating that the device, a sophisticated arrangement of knots and strings used to convey detailed information, was in use thousands of years earlier than previously believed." 7-05

  9. -09-18-05 Genes Suggest Brain Still Evolving (New Scientist)
      "The human brain may still be evolving, new research suggests. New variants of two genes that control brain development have swept through much of the human population during the last several thousand years, biologists have found."

      "Analysing variation in the gene suggests the new Microcephalin variant arose between 60,000 and 14,000 years ago, with 37,000 years ago being the team's best estimate. The new mutation is also much more common among people from Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas than those from sub-Saharan Africa."

      "The team also sequenced the ASPM gene from the same original sample and again, among dozens of variants, found a defining mutation that alters the protein the gene codes for. Estimates are that the new variant of ASPM first appeared in humans somewhere between 14,000 and 500 years ago, with the best guess that it first arose 5800 years ago. It is already present in about a quarter of people alive today, and is more common in Europe and the Middle East than the rest of the world." 9-05

  10. -10-20-05 Wilma Strikes the Caribbean (MSNBC News)
      "Hurricane Wilma rapidly strengthened into one of the Americas' most intense storms ever and lashed Caribbean coastlines Wednesday, forcing tourists to flee as it threatened to slam into Cancun and southern Florida." 10-05

  11. -11-05-05 Bush Leaves Rocky Summit (USA Today)
      "President Bush left the Summit of the Americas Saturday with no more than he expected: a cold shoulder from some Latin American leaders, no consensus on a free trading bloc for the hemisphere and biting criticism from anti-U.S. protesters and Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez." 11-05

  12. Peruvian Artifacts Recovered (NationalGeographic.com)
      "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents recovered and seized 322 pre-Columbian Peruvian artifacts this week after a two-month joint investigation between ICE and the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO)."

      "The pre-Columbian era refers to a period preceding the exploration of the Americas by Christopher Columbus. The artifacts date as far back as 1500 B.C."
    01-06

  13. -04-29-06 Latin American Leaders Reject U.S. Trade Plan (CNN News)
      "The Cuba-Venezuela deal -- known by its Spanish acronym ALBA, also the word for dawn -- provided a framework for the leaders to blast Washington's efforts to expand its free trade with Latin American countries."

      "The U.S.-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas hemispheric trade pact stalled last year, but Washington since has signed nine free-trade agreements with Latin American countries."

      "The three presidents called the FTAA a U.S. effort to 'annex' Latin America." 04-06

  14. Columbus, Christopher (Wikipedia.org)
      "Christopher Columbus (ca. 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an explorer and trader who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas on October 12, 1492 under the flag of Castile. History places great significance on his landing in America in 1492, with the entire period of the history of the Americas before this date usually known as Pre-Columbian, and the anniversary of this event, Columbus Day, being celebrated in many parts of America. Although there is evidence of Pre-Columbian trans-Atlantic Ocean European contact, Columbus is commonly credited as the first European to see the Americas because of the profound impact his contact wrought on history. His voyage marked the beginning of European exploration and colonization of the Americas."

      Includes a picture of Columbus.
    05-06

  15. Study: Where You Live Influences How Long You Live (MSNBC News)
      "Where you live, combined with race and income, plays a huge role in the nation's health disparities, differences so stark that a report issued Monday contends it's as if there are eight separate Americas instead of one." 09-06

  16. Maya Civilization (Wikipedia.org)
      "The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its spectacular art, monumental architecture, and sophisticated mathematical and astronomical systems." 1-07

  17. -04-18-09 U.S. No Longer the Clear Leader in Latin America (Christian Science Monitor)
      "The multibillion-dollar purchase of Toromocho mountain by China's Chinalco corporation was yet another example of China's voracious appetite for resources. Yet the Chinese claim on Toro mocho also symbolizes how, across Latin America, the US is no longer the only game in town."

      "As President Obama turns his attention to America's own hemisphere – he visited Mexico on his way to the Summit of the Americas this weekend in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – he finds a region that within a decade has diversified its interests and adjusted interdependencies, moving away from a US dominance that dates back to the Spanish-American War." 04-09

  18. Fifteen Ways to Live Longer (Forbes.com)
      "Where you live, combined with race and income, plays a huge role in the nation's health disparities, differences so stark that a report issued Monday contends it's as if there are eight separate Americas instead of one." 11-06

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