27 November 2020 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
Reading Time: 11 minutesRoute of the expedition © Victor van Werkhooven
The
Lewis and Clark Expedition from August 31, 1803, to September 25, 1806, also known as the
Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the
Louisiana Purchase. The
Corps of Discovery was a select group of
U.S. Army and
civilian volunteers under the command of Captain
Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant
William Clark. The expedition made its way westward, and crossed the
Continental Divide of the Americas before reaching the
Pacific Coast (
Timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition).
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3 December 2018 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Architecture
Reading Time: 17 minutesRosedown Plantation House in St. Francisville, Louisiana © Z28scrambler/cc-by-sa-3.0
Antebellum architecture (meaning “prewar”, from the Latin
ante, “before”, and
bellum, “war”) is the
neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century
Southern United States, especially the
Deep South, from after the birth of the
United States with the
American Revolution, to the start of the
American Civil War. Antebellum architecture is especially characterized by
Georgian,
Neo-classical, and
Greek Revival style
plantation homes and
mansions.
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