Cape Verde

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The Great New England hurricane of 1938 September 21,1938: The Great New England Hurricane occurred. The storm formed on September 13 northwest of the Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of africa and reached hurricane strength 3 days later. As the storm turned to the north on the 19th and 20th and strengthened into a powerful category 5 hurricane. “Weather bureau had warned a gale along the atlantic coast, when it was realized that this storm was continuing north, it was too late to get…

By the fifteen century with the New World the beginning of the European expansion was impending since the need for commercial power was bigger as the time passed; so they started a process of expansion were the two major oversees countries were Spain and Portugal. According to Robert Edgar, Neil Hackett, George Jewsbury, Barbara Molony and Matthew Gordon the power of Portugal and Spain did not last long because “Portugal lacked the manpower and resources required by an empire spread over three…

I arrived here in the united states from Cape Verde on October 6, 2012. I started my freshman year in Brockton High School in December of 2012. I was excited to start school there, but as I walked in, I started to notice that this school was bigger and much more different from my school back home. The excitement had brushed, everything suddenly seemed so confusing. I couldn’t understand what was being said, and frankly, I started to get scared. I had already been overwhelmed by the new country,…

when they are traveling with the wind, and it is nearly impossible to travel against it. “For instance, because the winds in the Northern Atlantic Ocean follow a clockwise pattern, the duration of a round trip with a clipper ship from Lisbon to Cape Verde would be similar to that of a round trip from Lisbon to Salvador. With the steamship, the former trip would require only half of the time needed for the latter trip.” Many economists attribute an increase of…

this hurricane left the biggest path of destruction anything in it´s way was gone.This was named the deadliest hurricane in american history. The hurricane’s conditions were the recipe of disaster this is how it all started.It started to form in cape verde islands on september 13 and obtained hurricane status three days after that.It moved across the Atlantic at about 20 Mph and was heading west into flordia suddenly it shifted and started moving toward north.Therefore the hurricane broke into…

guitars, African trumpets (in some places called vuvuzela or lepatata mambu), and other ones. Some famous music styles are namely, Afrobeat (from Nigeria), Azonto (from Ghana), Coupé Decalé (from Ivory Coast), Coladeira ( from Cape Verde), Makossa (from Cameroon), Morna (from Cape Verde), Semba (from Angola), Marrabenta (from Mozambique), Kwaito (from South Africa). Kuduro (from Angola), Kizomba (from Angola), Mbaqanga (from South Africa), Pandza (from Mozambique), Raï (from Algeria), Taarab…

This great country we live in called America was named after one of history’s important contributors. It was named after an Italian-born explorer and merchant named Amerigo Vespucci. Amerigo was born in 1451 in Florence, Italy. He was born into a family of culture. His uncle, Giorgio Antonio Vespucci, a Dominican Friar was his educator instead of him attending to the University of Pisa as his older brothers did. His father was a notary in Florence and one of his other uncles was an…

The ukulele ; variant: ukelele) sometimes abbreviated to uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments; it generally employs four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings. The ukulele originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian adaptation of the Portuguese machete, a small guitar-like instrument, which was introduced to Hawaii by Portuguese immigrants, many from Madeira and the Azores. It gained great popularity elsewhere in the United States during the early 20th century, and from…

How many sailors or those who might perish in this discovery or conquest walked through the streets of Lisbon, Portugal? Almost two hundred sailors walked through the streets of Lisbon, Portugal to ask God to forgive them. Where did Da Gama sail? “His ship rounded the southern tip of Africa, and entered the Indian Ocean.” Who sponsored him to find a route? “King Manuel the 1st of Portugal asked Da Gama to find a sea route to India.” My paper is going to be about some of the routes Vasco…