John Lennon has been dead longer than he’s been alive.
Oxford University has been around longer than the Aztecs.
The only continent with no dragon mythology is Antarctica.
The part of The Lower 48 United States of America closest to Africa is Maine
France established a colony in what is now the US before Spain. (It didn’t last.)
Mountains on a neutron stars are only a fraction of a millimeter high, but the gravity is so high that if you fell off the summit your velocity would be a significant fraction of the speed of light when you hit bottom.
John Lennon’s oldest son Julian (the Jude in Hey Jude) is now 59, 19 years older than John was when he died.
When Harriet Tubman was born, Thomas Jefferson was alive.
When she died, Ronald Reagan was alive.
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I thought of a better way of putting this:
The first European colony in what is now the United States was French.
The failed settlement at Parris island SC, was in 1562, (another failed French colony was in Canada in 1541).
However, Spanish Settlements started in 1450, even tho St Augustine was not founded until 1565.
The American Revolution.
Although Spain established colonies in North America in the seventeenth century, by 1750, most remained small military outposts. In Florida, the principal Spanish settlements were located at St. Augustine, Apalachee Bay, and Pensacola Bay. … The Spanish also established forts and missions in south central Texas. As in Florida, mission Indians were subject to capture, in this case, by Great Plains Indians. Furthermore, Spanish settlements in Texas were denied ports on the Gulf of Mexico. As a result, all European goods were shipped overland from Mexico at great cost. A clandestine trade with the French in Louisiana never fully supplied their needs. The Spanish settlements on the middle and upper Rio Grande, centered on El Paso and Santa Fe, were moderately successful. By 1750 perhaps 5,000 to 9,000 non-Indians lived in the region. The Indian population neared 10,000. But in 1750, the Rio Grande settlements remained isolated and poor. Spanish settlers and Pueblo Indians were fair game for well-mounted Indian raiders.
And then there were the Norse- of course the known settlement was in Newfoundland (Canada) but that certainly wasn’t Vinland, which could have been in Maine or so.
OK, I’m unaware of Spanish settlements in what is now the US (not counting Puerto Rico) in 1450. Or for that matter, in the New World before 1492. I suspect a typo for 1540, but please give a cite for these early settlements.
Typo, sorry.
And another French settlement in 1564: Fort Caroline (somewhere in the Jacksonville area, historians are not sure exactly where).
I did some research about any earlier Spanish colonies in the US. The only attempt I could find was by Ponce de Leon in 1521. However, his expedition was immediately attacked by the locals, he was mortally wounded, and the expedition left without establishing a colony.
So I stand by my fact that the first colony (indeed, the first two colonies) in what is now the US was French.