The climate east of the Cascades is markedly different, a continental climate of cold, snowy winters and warm, dry summers. ... Climate also affects growing seasons in the Columbia River Basin. At higher elevations, the season can last as few as 30 days.
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Carter stood firm in the tense standoff that followed, but his failure to free the hostages during the Iran hostage crisis led his government to be perceived as inept and inefficient; this perception increased after the failure of a secret U.S. military mission in April 1980.
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interpretation of the Industrial Revolution, Britain and not China had an Industrial Revolution in part because Britain had access to the raw materials of the New World, while China did not: trade was crucial for British growth on the supply side, as it were.
Typhoon winds led to the failed Mongol invasions of "Japan," although it should be noted that smaller, less consequential typhoons indeed hampered their efforts to invade other lands as well.
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The British colonization of the Americas is the history of the establishment of control, settlement, and decolonization of the continents of the Americas by England, Scotland and (after 1707) Great Britain. Colonization efforts began in the 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in North America. The first permanent British colony was established in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Over the next several centuries more colonies were established in North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Though most British colonies in the Americas eventually gained independence, some colonies have opted to remain under Britain's jurisdiction as British Overseas Territories.
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