The Hen And The Rooster

Calvin Coolidge, was the 30th President of the united states of America. He and his wife, the first lady, paid an official visit to Kentucky farm. Miss Coolidge was passing in the chicken pen when she asked to the farmer how often did the rooster perform his duties, the farmer replied " a dozens of time a day ". She was impressed by the fact and asked the farmer to tell this to the President , her husband. The farmer told this to the President, the president wisely asked if the rooster performed it with the same hen each time. The farmer said no a different one each time. The President asked the farmer to tell that to Mrs Coolidge.

you figure out what this story means ...

Getting It On...

A 76year old , had married so many times in his life that he had so many bride dress sizes that would cover any future ones. His name is Reverend Glynne de Moss Wolfe, a baptist minister from California.
In the search for his twenty seventh wife he said the following phrases " im fit and ready , and desperately searching for a lasting marriage. I ve made a few mistakes but each time I thought it would work something went wrong.. A good wife for me would be , someone with mystery , magic, daredevil, and between 100 and 120 pounds and also under twenty. Women get crafty in their twenties. If I can get them young and dumb enough, I can teach them how to have fun. Im good looking , a gentleman in the lounge , a cook in the kitchen and a romeo in bed.
Of course , i have whisky in the house.

With all the marriages the rev has had , he has around twenty two sons and eighteen daughters, aged between 3 and 63. * he had his first child at 13. Marriage is really god's gift for this guy.

A 68 year old man, a fellow like the reverand , Marquess of Huntly engaged a 20yrs old nurse.
When asked if he is ashamed or not he elusively said " I'm a very fit man. I don't wear spectacles. I still have my own teeth. Why should i marry some dried up old bag."

Weird courtship and marriage stories.

The countess of Newburgh rejected more 15 proposals by Charles Redclyffe an earl.
She was so frustrated if him she ordered her entire staff to lock all the doors so no one could get in. Earl, madly in love found out another way , he went through the chimney and proposed to her for the 16th time and this time she felt obliged to accept.

That was the before part of a marriage story , check this one out.
In Nepal, Narikot women must wash their mother in laws feet as a sign of respect before each meal. And then their is the love of their life, their husband who they have to also wash their feet but drink the dirty water from it afterwards. In prize for all that Narikot woman are allowed to carry their husband's burden.

Love, Hate

An 85 year old Sicilian, Evaristo Bertone stabbed his wife Adriana in the shoulder when he saw a love letter for her. The old lad had forgotten he had wrote it back when he was young and in love. Though Adriana forgave him, she said he has very poor eyesight. There is an old proverb , love hurts, i guess it's true.

Another love related story..

In the capital city of Sri Lanka, Colombo, the city was suffering from water shortage but the idiotic chief of the fire departement sprayed 5000 gallons of cold water on couples having a good time in the city park. He said the couples were having ' nefarious activities'.

Kalology : The Art of Beauty

Francis Galton, a 19th centuary polymath, traveled all around Britain in order to understand beauty and how to rate it. How he actually did this was by carrying a paper and a needle. He would walk the streets or whatever and when he saw an attractive lady he would make a hole on the top , if he saw an average one he would make a hole in the middle and if he did see a really hideous one he would make a hole at the botton. He made a paper for each town he visited and in the end if it had more holes on top it meant the town was one with beauty and vice-verca. He found London to be the highest ranked for beauty and Aberdeen the lowest.

"A letter in the National Review from Charles C. Littell Jr. suggested that beauty should be measured in 'Helens'. "

- One Helen would be defined as enough beauty to launch a thousand ships.
- A Milihelen would be enough beauty to launch one ship.
- A Microhelen is sufficient beauty to inspire the launch of a plank.
- An Antimilihelen measures ugliness, one unit is enough to sink a battleship.


A little story ...Giulia Gonzaga, Duchess of Fondi measured one Helen for her amazing looks and 1,000 ships were launched by the Turk Sultan to capture her. The turks made it till there but were lost in their surroundings, a little boy saw them and went to warn the Duchess of the attack. The Duchess fled from her town to safety. The turks gave up and left empty handed.
The Duchess showed her thankfulness to the boy by getting his head chopped off.

Ya i know, sad story.

The Unkindest Cut of All

Back in the old days of the powerful church, a good way for a boy to live a happy life was for him to castrate himself. And sing for the church , it was/is thought that castrated men sing better then the not castrated ones. You could somehow attain the perfect pitch of voice, this would also make them indefatigable lovers. Although the church forbade the act of castration to keep a healthy public image they would make excuses such as the boy was attacked by vicious dogs who bit of his --- or his peers beaten him badly and brutalized him. Even though what they said was sometimes not very veridical the people wouldn't question them. Some of the opera's pieces were strictly written for castrati singer. Spectators, after a great performance would shout ' Viva il coltello', which is Italian for ' Long live the knife'. But the actual castration wasn't done with a knife but a sharp string. What might sound painfully , was never documentated. Giovanni Francesco Grossi, an italian castrato was in love with a countess from Modena. Her enraged & mad family sent her into a community of nuns, but Giovanni still went to visit her . The modest family was so enraged they hired someone to assassain him in the end. Some castrato's even tried to marry but being affiliated with the church it became impossible, too bad for the supposed best lovers. Some castrato's became priest, one is that known , Loreto Vittori. Other castrato's that went big, Farinelli. He worked in the court of the king of Spain. Philip V of Spain loved songs and so did his wife who even paid Farinelli to sing for her husband each night.
The barberous practice did not end till the 20th centuary. The last soprano castrato was Alessandro Moreschi, he died in 1922 late enough for his voice to be recorded. And with him this tradition in the catholic church ended,

The younger they start, the better.

The Hillsborough County sheriff's office in Florida received an official complaint against one Robbie Roumonas for going naked infront of a 4 year old girl at a family picnic. Sergeant Bruce Hoffman asked questions to the mother of the girl , she had been told by her daughter that the boy had no clothes on. Sgt Hoffman called the mother of the boy Robbie and told her the penalty was 15 years but they wanted talk to her son. Too bad Robbie was only 13 months old and couldn't talk , the departement decided to drop the case.

Weird ways to approach someone.

Stephen Burton, a 26 year-old miner from somewhere a little town, had an unusual ways to come upto a woman. He would bring up his gerbil as a point of the conversation. He saw a girl that caught his eye, he saw the girl caught in a car jam. He jumped at the opportunity to bring the gerbil conversation at her. When she saw the gerbil she screamed and pressed the pedal and hit a few cars in front of her causing a damge of 800 dollars. Stephen's father had some wise words of counsel ," Next time , son, say it with flowers."


And a nice little fact , when now days people look for a life mate the first two things they will look for is .

1. Religion compatiblility
2. Similarity of drinking habits

Penalty for Unfaithfulness...

I talked about weird celebrations and traditions but this time i will speak of those who don't remain loyal to their mates and their fates.

The beautiful , Mrs Hamilton was the Russian Tsar's favorite mistress but she cheated on him and he decided to behead her . And to make sure no one would ever do that on him again he kept her head in a closed jar in his room. I think that women who would think to cheat on him would think twice, surely.

In 1984, a woman in Barcelona, Francisca Vega, decided to unleash her fury on her not-so-trustful husband by poisoning him. She inserted his body in a huge jar with up to five gallon of water in it . As the days went by he kept shrinking and after awhile he was at the size of a doll.
She had learned the process from a chemist . Francisca said something along the lines of this " i wanted his corpse to be my trophy , what a gladiator of a woman . Francisca spent one year in a mental hospital before being released , i wonder if she still has her trophy ?

Dealing with Enraged Women

The scissor-happy,enraged wife is the nightmare to many men. For some it wasn't a nightmare but reality like our friend Antonio Lama of Naples . In 1975, he got his nose cut off by his jealous wife, Amalia. A wife in Thailand went even further, she cut her husband's penis of and threw it out the window. The poor lad had to go through the dishonor of picking it up, and wandering off to somewhere.

In renaissance France castration was advised as an advance guard against a range of ailments. It was so famous some towns had women specializing in the operation. One such paramedic had so many customers that she feed her dog with the leftovers.

The Queen of ancient Syria, Semiramis, was so jealous of her best lovers that she ordered the removal of their testicles so that no woman after her would be able have that experience. she is said by Marcellinus, a Roman historian, to have created multitudes of eunuchs.

An a unsual way to celebrate victory.

The Egyptian Pharaoh, Menephta, recorded his great victory over the troublemaking libyans in battle on a monument at Karnak. In celebration, he decided to cut of his opponents penises and when all the cutting had ended he had returned with an astonishing 13,240 penises. Ouch. As once a great historian , Leonard Cottrell said, " The Ancient Egyptians were probably the monst humane people of the ancient east.

8 hot ideas for decorating your kitchen

The kitchen is the core room in a person's home and therefore it's a great place to undertake a remodeling project. We will fill you in on the latest trends in kitchen design so your kitchen can sizzle like the food you cook in it! The first design trend addresses one of the most common complaints people have about their kitchens – storage space. Creative storage solutions such as overhead pot racks are becoming more popular. People are also increasingly using drawer and cabinet organizers in their kitchens to keep everything in its place.

People are installing flooring in kitchens that years ago not many people would have even considered. This brings us to our third trend which is to look beyond the standard kitchen tiles and explore new kitchen flooring options. Due to improved sealants, wood floors can now be installed in kitchens and withstand the rigors of frequent and heavy daily use. As an alternative, people are also installing laminate flooring in their kitchens. Bamboo and cork are also great, eco-friendly flooring choices that will make your kitchen look hot.

Another great kitchen design trend has to do with your countertops. When you think of concrete, you probably think of sidewalks but concrete actually can be used to make beautiful countertops. Concrete is almost infinitely customizable and can mimic the appearance of other materials and this flexibility is part of its draw. Concrete is as sturdy as marble or granite.

The fifth trend is a novel and exciting advancement in kitchen ranges and ovens. While gas burners are often preferred for stovetop cooking, electricity is the best energy source for heating ovens. Rather than having to pick between the two fuel options, there are now ovens available that allow you to have the best of both worlds. Of course, if you don't have access to both gas and electricity in your kitchen, this probably isn't a practical choice for you. An alternative that is also trendy is a range with induction burners. Induction burners are lighter on their energy use and heat up more quickly than either electric or gas ranges.

One of the hottest kitchen trends, and the sixth that we will mention, is to hide your appliances. More and more people are customizing their kitchens so that appliances such as microwaves and refrigerators are concealed behind doors that match your kitchen cabinets. This is a great solution for you if you have put a lot of time and thought into your kitchen décor and don't want it spoiled by a large and potentially ugly appliance.

Finally, don't be afraid to introduce color into your kitchen. As more people try to make a statement by purchasing unique items, appliances are available in numerous bold colors and people are buying them in droves. And don't forget your cabinets – these are also available in bright colors and will be sure to make your kitchen look hot. While cabinets are becoming more decorative it's important to remember to keep them casual. By following these fabulous design trends, your kitchen will be the trendiest one on the block.

No, Not the Flying Variety

We think we know about reindeer (also known as caribou,) but what is myth and what is fact? Do reindeer really fly?

Well, the answer to the second question is no. Some believe that this rumor was started because of their penchant for running quickly through the thick grass of the tundra when threatened. If the watcher was far enough away when the ‘took off’ it could look like they were flying away caused by an optical illusion caused by the flat expanse of the tundra.

Here are some facts:

Reindeer have extremely dense hair, not fur, that extends to their lips. This protects them from the snow when they graze.

All reindeer grow antlers. This includes the calves and females. They all shed them annually.

Although they are classified as herbivores because of their dental structure, they will eat small rodents, birds and eggs if they are available. They do this due to a need to add nutrients to their diet.

Reindeer are the domesticated variety of the caribou. They generally have shorter legs and are heavier. They are bred as a food source by people from the Arctic circle.

The caribou changes it’s hooves with the seasons. The hooves become soft and spongy in the warmer months to help maintain traction in a soft environment and then the spongy footpads shrink in the winter and allow the outer hoof rim to grow over it to give them additional traction in the colder months.

Caribou are excellent swimmers because of the need for them to cross large bodies of water in their Arctic home (especially during the summer.)

One other interesting fact is that their large nasal passages warm chilled air before it enter their lungs and then condenses the warm air returning and allows any moisture to remain in the nostril.

So, no they cannot fly, but they are another interesting example of mother nature’s creatures.

Proven Effective Ways Of Keeping Your Present Job

The Rising Unemployment Problem

In the past, the U.S. has experienced a low unemployment rate in the year 1990. Records showed that in that year, 45% of its population were working and 24% of them only were employed on full time basis. Today, unemployment rate has increased tremendously at the start of 2009 with mass layoffs in the fields of automotive and manufacturing industries.

In other countries, unemployment is even more a serious problem. Joblessness can ruin families and even societies. People working now tend to hold on to their jobs as finding a new one becomes more tedious by the day. A stark reality is that finding a job is saddled by stiff competition from an even growing population.

Tips to Keep Your Present Job

Since finding a new job entails more difficulties with growing and stiffer competition every year, having a current job gets an added importance. If you have already a job and you want to keep it for long because you know that it is hard to land in new jobs these days, here are some tips for you to consider:

• 1.Find ways to improve your work performance.

You will always be an asset to the company if you contribute to its growth. By trying your best to give your utmost performance, others will see this example, and they may follow suit. This will be to the best interest of the company.

When the company’s productivity is improved, it will consequently grow and it will be in a better position to give into the employees’ needs and welfare. This will redound to the employees’ overall advantage.

• 2.Do your job with utmost diligence.

If you hesitate to do your job, you may end up nothing to accomplish at all and this is not good for your company. Employers or bosses will always look up to people who can act decisively and deliver well for the company’s good.

• 3.Look for a job you truly like.

It would be very difficult for you to work in a certain field that you are not capable of handling with maximum efficiency. You have to truly love and like the work that you do in order for you to give your best. People who like and love their job enjoy the fruit of their work and give them utmost satisfaction.

• 4.Impress Your Superiors by Doing Other Jobs.

Avoid being a hard-line employee who is only willing to do jobs within his scope based on the job description. If necessary, take the initiative of fulfilling other jobs especially when your officemate is indisposed. This way, your full potential will be discovered and recognized. When there is a vacancy for a higher position, this can be your passport to a higher rank and salary.

In the long run, having a job is still an advantage over the others who have none at all. Nonetheless, one must not always be contented at having a job. He has to nurture it and keep it well for the job to be fulfilling to him and to the company as well for mutual benefit.

Fun facts about Salt

According to some of the medical websites consuming upto an equivalent of 1 teaspoon of salt per day is safe! It is because of such websites, one of my close friend was misguided into considering that salt was not bad for him. He began salting everyday and his blood pressure went up a notch or two every month. I knew this information was incorrect, but I did not have anything to support my gut instinct-until I read came across some interesting facts about salt which I am going to share with you below with the hope that it might help you.

• It is worth knowing that refined salts even in salt water concentration mayl kill salt water fish. So you can take a guess, what is the fate of our inner organs when fed commercialized salt?

• According to nutritionists fruits and vegetables are almost salt-free. This signifies that a vegetarian diet may create an weak condition and other salt-starvation diseases. This is the fact behind why many vegetarians lust for salty snacks.

• Statistics say that humans only consume 7% of the total salt production, the rest (93%) is exploited by the chemical and manufacturing industries for producing explosives, chlorine gas, agro-fertilizers and plastic materials.

• 92 essential minerals of the human body is found in the ocean.

• Researchers have found that Celtic sea salt is the lowest in sodium of all the salts available and the richest in valuable beneficial ingredients available in any salt. Once it is re-dissolved in water or in the moisture of food, Celtic Sea Salt carries an amazing likeness to human blood and body fluids. Celtic sea salt has numerous healing properties as well. For instance it can correct excess acidity, restore good digestion, relieve allergies and skin disorders, prevent a few types of cancer, increase cellular energy and give enhanced immunity to infections and bacterial disease.

• It is interesting to know that late French scientist Dr. Alexis Carrel succeeded in keeping a chicken heart alive for over thirty-seven years just by having the throbbing heart in a solution of sea salt. Finally Dr. Carrel voluntarily concluded the experimentation after 37 years, having established the fact that it is possible to have physical immortality for living cells.

Fun Facts about India

India can be compared with a “big paradise”. It has exotic cultures, invaluable artworks, progressive cities, national parks, and last but not the least friendly folks make this place of the globe an excellent destination for tourists all over the world. There are a lot of religious festivals in India. The Festival of Laxmi is one of the most famous religious festival in the Hindu religion.According to the religion Laxmi is said to be the Goddess of peace and prosperity. This Festivals plays an important and significant role in the lives of several Indians.

India is acknowledged to have given birth to many bright sons and one of the most brightest of them is Mohandas K. Gandhi, whose legacy was democracy. From history books we find many worthwhile quotes of Gandhi. Once he said, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world”.

From its birth in 1947, India, previously ruled by the british, is a democratic nation in the Third World. Its political situation is quite stable and is quite different from its neighboring countries like Pakistan(dictatorship), Bhutan ( absolutist monarchy), Nepal ( absolutist monarchy) and Myanmar ( military dictatorship).

Some of the items which India export to other countries in the world and earn a lot of foreign currency includes sugar, corn, and cotton. In recent past India´s economy witnessed one of the most fast paced growth in history.

India is also famous for the charming beauty of its women. It has won five Miss World titles and two Miss Universe titles.

India maintains a good relation with certain countries like the United Kingdom, South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Canada's, Maldives, Mexico, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Germany and the United States.

India is also quite popular for its film industry which makes more films every year than the United States, France, Italy, and the People`s Republic of China. These films are available and watched in from every corner of the world. “Gandhi” a motion picture by British director Richard Atenborough was filmed on the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi ( 1869-1948). This film won 8 Academy Awards in the eighties.

Fun Facts about Coal

Fun Facts about Coal

Coal formed about 300 million years ago and is one of the earth's fossil fuels. Coal is considered non-renewable because it takes about a million years to create. Coal is a type of sedimentary rock, made primarily of carbon and hydrocarbons. It is combustible. There are four primary types of coal, determined by the amount of carbon that they contain. These four types are: lignite, subbituminous, bituminous and anthracite. Coal has been used for energy and has been traded internationally since the Roman Empire. It also fueled the Industrial Revolution and was crucial in the development of electrical power. Coal deposits in the United States alone contain more energy than all of the world's oil reserves. Almost a hundred countries have accessible coal deposits and it's likely that all countries have at least some coal resources, even if they haven't been discovered or are not accessible. If we continue to use coal at the rate we use it today, we will have exhausted the world's supply in less than two hundred years. China is the main supplier of coal to the world and the United States is second.

Coal is mined either on the surface or underground, the former being the less expensive method. Coal is considered a “dirty” energy source because of its deleterious effects on the environment both from the mining and burning of coal as an energy source. Coal mining can contaminate ground and surface water. The burning of coal releases carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas, into the air and contributes to global warming and the depletion of our ozone layer. In fact, it is believed that coal is responsible for twenty percent of all the greenhouse gases that are released into our atmosphere. Coal plants also emit mercury and are the largest source of this dangerous chemical, emitting about twenty-five pounds of it yearly. About six hundred coal plants produce in excess of one hundred million tons of sludge waste annually, which can end up polluting rivers and other bodies of water. Coal miners may also suffer ill effects from their jobs. The Center for Disease Control estimated that in a ten year study period, twelve thousand coal miners died from black lung disease.

Nevertheless, we are dependent on coal. The primary use for coal is to generate electricity. Coal is currently the cheapest source of electrical power. Therefore, if prices of other fuel sources such as oil and gas rise, coal is used more. Due to its low price, coal use in developing countries is growing at a rate of nearly two percent annually. Ninety percent of the coal in the United States is used for generating electricity and more than half of the United States' supply of electricity comes from coal. An estimated forty-one percent of the world's total electricity comes from coal and coal fulfills twenty-six percent of the world's energy needs. Coal does have other uses though. The ash that is a byproduct of coal combustion is used as filler for things such as tennis rackets, golf balls and linoleum. The steel and iron industry depend on coal. Coal can also be be used in the production of fertilizers and chemicals.

Fun Facts about Cleopatra

Fun Facts about Cleopatra

Cleopatra is often portrayed as a beautiful, exotic Egyptian ruler. However, pictures of her depicted on coins from her time show that by modern standards, she may not have been a beauty at all. What she may have lacked in good looks, she made up for with intelligence, charm and conviction and she has certainly left a legacy. Cleopatra was born in 69 BC, the daughter of Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra V of Egypt. She was not actually Egyptian in heritage. She was Macedonian Greek and a descendant of Ptolemy I who became king of Egypt after Alexander the Great's death Cleopatra succeeded her father to become the Pharaoh of the Ptolemic Dynasty in 51 BC. She was a co-ruler of Egypt for twenty-one years, until her death. Because we know so little about her, she has fascinated us for ages. Artists, art historians and archaeologists all have been drawn into her legacy. She is portrayed in many different mediums, from song to writing to paintings, stone and metal.

Before her death, Cleopatra had four children from two different fathers. Her personal life was quite complex. Her son, Ptolemy Caesar was fathered by Julius Caesar and her other children, Alexander Helios, Cleopatra Selene II and Ptolemy Philadelphus were fathered by Mark Antony. In 51 BC Cleopatra married her brother. Three years later she became Julius Caesar's lover and the next year her brother died in the Alexandrian War. Cleopatra then married another one of her brothers and eventually had him killed. This made her four year old son her co-ruler. Finally in 41 BC she became Mark Antony's lover. Her family life, a bit of a modern day soap opera definitely plays a role in our continuing fascination with her. Her life was marred by death, betrayal, incest and war and some of the most powerful men in history loved her.

It is easy to get bogged down in the sordid details of Cleopatra's personal life but she had a great impact on history and politics. After all, she was the last pharaoh of Egypt. During the first twenty years of Cleopatra's rule, the Roman Empire continuously threatened to conquer Egypt. Because of her connections to Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, she was able to keep the Romans at bay and Egypt remained independent for those twenty years. Octavian, who would later become Augustus, controlled Rome with Mark Antony. Antony was married to Octavian's wife but soon after Antony became involved with Cleopatra, he no longer had feelings for his wife. This was a cause of jealousy and anger between the two men which played a part in the conflict that ensued between Egypt and Rome. Finally, Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the Battle of Actium and took over Egypt. Part Cleopatra was so distraught over this failure that she committed suicide. We can never be sure exactly how she managed to take her own life but what we do know is that it involved a poisonous snake, the asp. We also do not know where she was buried.

Social Media Fuel

The new buzz word on the internet is social marketing. Social marketing continues to open fresh realms of possibilities for sincere business owners on and off the web. Beyond any doubt, the internet has created a worldwide market. The question remains how you can bring this global market into your world.

There is such a great deal of noise, traffic and honking on the web that if you follow half of everything that's happening you will get confused, lost and possible broke. Again if you just sit and watch and do nothing, you lose out on hundreds of opportunities. Thumb rule--"don't chase after traffic. Find out where the traffic is going and just go stand in front of it" [a quotation from the article marketing guy, Jeff Herring]. According to me the top 3 spots for where traffic is going:

1. Facebook -Facebook.com is a popular, free social networking website that is controlled and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Mark Zuckerberg was the founder of Facebook while he was studying at Harvard University.

2. Twitter- Twitter.com is a also a free-access social networking and micro-blogging service that permits its users to send and read other users' updates (differently recognized as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to one hundred forty characters in length.

3. Ezine Articles-Ezinearticles.com is the number 1 article merchandising directory on the internet. Here you can write your articles, submit them and kick back and relish the traffic.

The reason behind choosing these 3 out of numerous others is because of the following amazing facts and numbers:

1. Facebook. Althoguh Facebook was originally made for college graduates fool you but today it has great profits and implications for business owners, marketers, and entrepreneurs.This extremely booming online social networking platform is the home of one hundred million registered members, and is increasing at a high rate of 225,000 per day. According to prediction from analysts Facebook membership will be at 500 million by 2011.

2. Twitter. Initially Twitter may look like a good deal of nothing but just hang about for a few months. Twitter have by one measure over 3 million accounts and, by another, well over 5 million visitors in September 2008, a fivefold growth in just a month.

3. EzineArticles.com. This user friendly article directory on an average captures fifteen million visitors a calendar month. This popular directory permits writers in hundreds of niche areas to acquire heavy levels of exposure in exchange for the submission of their quality articles.

Fun facts about Tidewater

Interesting Facts about Tidewater

The Tidewater area of Virginia extends from the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay on the Eastern side to Williamsburg, VA on the West. This is a distance of approximately 80 miles which houses some 1.7 million people. The population of the region, though working at an abundance of different jobs, mainly support the massive amount of military inhabitants. All of the services are represented, but the largest contingent is the Navy at the Norfolk Naval Base. As one moves away from the waters of ocean and bay toward the mountains of Eastern Virginia on I-64, you will come to the western most edge of the tidewater, the city of Williamsburg.

When people think of colonial areas Williamsburg is generally one of the first to come to mind. It hosted the second organized college, William and Mary, in the US, which remains in operation. The first organized governmental seat was at Jamestown, and Williamsburg also opened the first insane asylum in the United States. The Williamsburg-Jamestown-Yorktown area of Virginia offers the vacationer a variety of site-seeing opportunities, and possible interactions. People who visit the old town of Williamsburg can see the governor’s mansion, period shops and houses, and an impressive botanical garden. Jamestown is a town that was recreated upon the site of the original city. It is the first English settlement in the US, and is most famous for its complete destruction and the mysterious, complete disappearance of it original inhabitants. Yorktown holds a special place in American history as the site where the Revolutionary War ended. The site is commemorated and the battlegrounds around Yorktown are preserved. Connecting the three cities is a scenic road, the Colonial Parkway, which is perfect for motorized vehicle and bicycle traffic.

The tidewater also has a rich sea history. The intracoastal waterway passes through the region and has long been an area where shipping can avoid the violence of the ocean. Although large ships are not allowed passage, pleasure boaters can travel from New Jersey to Texas without leaving the waterway. Tall ships can be seen periodically, and festivals for the ships have been held in the region. Whaling and other forms of fishing have also contributed to the area’s rich history. However, the main focus of the sea traditions has been the US Navy. The Harbor, which is comprised of the mouths of the James and Elizabeth rivers, is one of the largest natural harbors in the world. The largest US Naval base in the world and the largest contingent of US warships resides therein. Almost all of the surface ships and fast attack submarines on the east coast dock in Norfolk.

The beach at Virginia Beach is a popular venue for many summer vacations and spring breaks. Virginia beach sprawls along the Atlantic Ocean just off the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and has many resorts and hotels. An aquarium, which houses many of the creatures indigenous to the region, was built in the 1990’s in Virginia Beach.