The Minoans was a civilisation on Creteawhich is an island on the Aegean Sea, and other islands on this sea: they used the Aegean Sea for transportation
King Minos was a legendary king of Crete and son of Zeus. He was the one to order the Labyrinth to be built.
Knossos would be the equivalent of a capital for the Minoans.
As far as the reports say, just one and it was the one that carried JFK to the hospital, Parkland, where he later died in a trauma room.
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I believe it was 1862 when the transcontinental railroad became part of the Pacific Railroad Act. Right??