Pride and Prejudice is very romantic. What most wealthy single men lacked was a wife.
The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic episode in 1798 that worsened relations between France and the United States and led to the undeclared Quasi-War of 1798. John Jay's Treaty of 1794 angered France, which was at war with Great Britain and interpreted the treaty as evidence of an Anglo-American alliance.
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Changes in the earth's climate caused ice sheets to grow and cover most of Canada and some of the northern US almost 15 000 years ago. This is known as the last Ice Age. For the last two million years, the earth has shifted between ice ages and warmer periods. Ice ages are caused by slight changes in the way the earth orbits around the sun. Huge continental glaciers or sheets of ice moved down from the Artic and covered Canada, North America and much of Europe.