I think Mr. Bradford paints a rather rosy picture that is perhaps only a bit true. I suspect life was hard and the new country life quite strange. It took a strong forbearance for the women especially to adapt to the varying climates, crude living quarters, and usually harder work than in England. The Indians reportedly did welcome the strangers at first but did in time become leery of these new people - some lied to the Indians and did not deserve their welcome, so there were clashes in time. I do not think the early colonies were very successful. Later colonists learned from the mistakes of the first.
An undersea volcanic formation that does not rise at least 1000 meters above surrounding sea floor is called a seamount.
The Cuban Missile Crisis. The fear on both sides was that someone would push a button and all out war (perhaps the end of the planet as we understand it) would result. Both countries had ICBMs but America's were better. They could hit Russia. Russia had no real answer and Cuba is too small a defensive position. So Khrushchev blinked and took his threat home. It didn't take her long to catch up but by that time the political situation altered.
