Pueblos of Southwestern United States: The Spanish name "Pueblo" was applied by the conquistadors to native communities which they found in New Mexico. Within this region of 200,000 square miles there are about 45 tribes speaking nine ...See morePueblos of Southwestern United States: The Spanish name "Pueblo" was applied by the conquistadors to native communities which they found in New Mexico. Within this region of 200,000 square miles there are about 45 tribes speaking nine different languages. The Pueblo of Isleta, largest of Tancan Pueblos, located on banks of the Rio Grande, near Albuquerque, N.M. Among Rio Grande Pueblos there has been no progress owing to slow but sure Mexicanization. Within a short period certain Indian villages will cease to exist as such. The early enumeration of the inhabited Pueblos in the 16th century was 65, at present the permanently occupied villages number 26. The Pueblo of Tesque. The occupation of the men is chiefly agriculture; they also do all the spinning and weaving. The women are the house builders and in addition to household work, they engage extensively in the manufacture of pottery. Hazardous Occupations: WhiIe thousands pass over the structure, painters find an airy perch high over East River in the super-structure of the famous Brooklyn Bridge. Ancient Island of Sicily: Sicily in ancient times was the seat of many flourishing Greek colonies. At the close of the Punic War, 264-241 B.C., Carthage relinquished Sicily to the Romans, who in 212 B.C. became masters of the island by the conquest of Siracusa. Siracusa, the Greek amphitheatre of the amphictyonic council of ancient Greece. The Washington Elm: Famous Washington elm, under which George Washington assumed command of the American army, July 3, 1775.
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