Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Although today Illinois’s largest population center is in its northeast, the state’s European population grew first in the west as the French settled lands near the Mississippi River, when the region was known as Illinois Country and was…
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Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Native Americans had been living in Florida for at least 14,000 years when the first European contact was made in 1513 by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, who called it la Florida because it was Easter…
View More United States of America: FloridaAlaska is a United States state in the Western United States, on the northwest extremity of the country’s west coast. Alaska was occupied by various indigenous peoples for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. The state is considered the entry point for the settlement of North America by…
View More United States of America: AlaskaThe United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, 326 Indian reservations, and some minor possessions. Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia…
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New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States; its capital is Santa Fe, which was founded in 1610 as capital of Nuevo México (itself established as a province of New Spain in 1598), while its largest city is Albuquerque with its accompanying metropolitan area. Inhabited by Native Americans…
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Saint Helena is a remote volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean, belonging to the United Kingdom, and named after Saint Helena of Constantinople. The island is one of the most isolated islands in the world and was discovered by the Portuguese in 1502. From 1815-21, the island was…
View More Saint HelenaTonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian country, and also an archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. An Austronesian-speaking group linked to what archaeologists call the Lapita cultural complex reached and inhabited Tonga sometime between 1500 and 1000 BC. Scholars still debate exactly when Tonga…
View More TongaNiuafoʻou (meaning many new coconuts) is the northernmost island in the kingdom of Tonga. Other names for the island are Good Hope island and Tin Can island. It got the name “tin can” from its unusual method for sending and receiving mail from abroad. Because it has no wharf or…
View More Niuafo’ouCinematography is the art of motion-picture photography and filming either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as film stock. Cinematographers use a lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sensor…
View More Thematic: CinematographyPakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the site of several ancient cultures, most notably the 8,500-year-old Neolithic site of Mehrgarh, the oldest in South Asia, and the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation, the most extensive of the civilisations of the Old…
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