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I just read the book about the Stallions a few weeks ago. Amazing read and it really hits home how there may not have been a Ravens team if not for the Stallions.
The northeast colonies were drawn mostly according to some natural boundaries, but the lateral borders of southern colonies were simply drawn from the Eastern shore endlessly to the west. In theory, for example, North Carolina stretched all the way to the Pacific at that point.
For most of the large, squared off mid western and mountain states, Congress simply created them and aligned their borders with degrees of latitude and longitude.
there are numerous small examples (the border between Kentucky and Tennessee, for example) that are interesting stories by themselves. Go look for a book called How the State Got their Shapes.
I have seen side by sides of Justin Trudeau, today, next to photos of his dad at age sixty, and yeah, they look dissimilar. His father had Parkinson’s disease and aged in a rather unflattering way.
Look at a young Pierre Elliott Trudeau, though:
Books, especially books of short stories, or where each chapter is self-contained, so you can more or less just pick it up and read at random. In the US, a good example would be How The States Got Their Shapes.
Likewise, magazines.
Puzzle books. I love doing word finds and can waste several hours doing those.
Music. Fill up your phone's SD card with tunes, or download as many Spotify playlists as you need.
But mostly lots and lots of video. You can download shows\movies for offline viewing on Netflix and Prime Video, and I'm sure others. There are also the typical pirate sites, and there are YouTube downloaders as well. I've found over the years that it's better to "spread your preferences out" - you might think you wanna binge all four seasons of Stranger Things on your flight... but you might not be in the mood that day. So it's better to download one season (series) of four different shows than four seasons of one show.
Lastly: snacks. Eating just to pass the time isn't the best thing for your waistline, but flying is an exception. If you're prone to motion sickness, Gin Gins ginger candy (or your local equivalent) can really help... but you need to start eating them at least 30 minutes before you get on the plane.
Many state boundaries were adjusted from their original territories in order to gain access to navigable rivers that could reach the ocean. A lot of this is covered in this book and its accompanying TV series.
https://www.amazon.com/How-States-Got-Their-Shapes/dp/0061431397
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_States_Got_Their_Shapes
They always use Pierre Trudeau’s old ass pictures too. Never the one where’s he’s young and looks a hell of lot more like Justin than Fidel does.
https://www.amazon.com/Young-Trudeau-1919-1944-Quebec-Father/dp/0771067496
The Empire Within : Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal by Sean Mills https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0773536957/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_BQZX5JR9339TZGM04DHH
En français: Contester l'empire - Pensée postcoloniale et militantisme politique à Montréal de, 1963-1972 https://www.amazon.ca/dp/2896475257/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_BXEH1VNDD8PA4ZSYPVNK
Chaque page est une nouvelle raison d'être en tabarnak en tant que francophone, mais c'est sérieusement bien écrit et bien recherché.
>No there was no genocide of Francophones
https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/David-Vermette/dp/1771861495
> neither did they receive special privelges like Quebec receives
privilege my ass, it took us 200 years to get anything ressembling equality from the federal governement and even then the concession such as the law on billingualism were only done as a response to the separatist movement. But the fact you see this as a privilege explains a lot of things about this country.
https://www.amazon.com/Idaho-Falls-Americas-Nuclear-Accident/dp/1550225626 - This book is an amazing read and most thorough reference
Je suis en train de lire A Distinct Alien Race: The Untold Story of Franco-Americans et c'est assez poignant comme histoire. Il y a plus d'Amarécains d'origine québécoise que de gens au Québec (estimés à 10 millions versus 8) et ils descendent presque tous de gens partis s'entasser dans des trous à rats au Maine et au Massachusetts faire du travail précaire dans des usines de textile.
There was a book called Black Ice. It’s a history of the Colored Hockey League of the Mariitimes in the early 1900’s. Very interesting stuff.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. Normand Lester wrote three books full of that kind of stuff. only the first one was translated in english.
The colonies were basically "here's where this company wants to be, give them that all the way west, since we don't know how far that is." For most of the latter states it was about governance - note that the territories get bigger and bigger as time goes on, because communications and travel technology improved. https://www.amazon.com/How-States-Got-Their-Shapes/dp/0061431397 is a great book on this very topic.
The Book by Mark Stein is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read.
Huh. Very good! Also - if you guys are interested in this /u/tacitus's reply, you might like the book How The States Got Their Shapes I read it a few years ago. Pretty great.
Biggest thing is to keep the regional culture in mind. I would suggest doing some research and reading up on local history in the area you are thinking about building in to get a feel for the kind of people who settled it. Another good source would be How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein. Maybe you could piece together some what-if scenarios from the surrounding states so it's rooted in reality?
Everyone here is from somewhere else. It seems like half of the guys on Grindr are either French, American, or Ontarians living here.
If you want a great book on the history of Quebec, I would really highly recommend The Empire Within. It's about Montreal during the 1960s and how that decade shaped the rest of the century. IE: why Quebec nationalism and language problems are so important. It's probably my favourite book I've read in grad school and it's really easy to read.
The Book is great. If you want some Canadian baseball in particular, I"d also recommend Jonah Keri's <em>Up, Up, and Away</em>, on the Montreal Expos.
Thats the names of the books, How the States Got Their Shapes. I think they even turned it into a tv show on History Channel.
Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident - I think this was actually recommended in a previous post on this sub. Fascinating book that goes into a lot of gruesome detail about the incident itself, the cleanup, and the investigation. It starts out a little slow but it picks up after the first couple chapters.