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1343.More information
Historical and archaeological study of the first intra-muros Christian building at Châteaudun and discussion of the chronology. After a phase of development (6th-llth cent.), the church declines from the date of construction of the medieval castle, north of the site. The church is later used for funeral purposes (14th-18th cent.).
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1345.More information
Nicolas Rouvière, specialist of Asterix’s comic strips (by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo), gave a conference on October 22nd 2009, in the Culture Center of Stockholm and in the context of the fiftieth birthday of Asterix.
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1347.More information
Back in the 1950s, Dorset longhouses were unknown to archaeologists working in the Arctic. The discovery of one near Kangirsuk (Nunavik) in the early 1960s was an important addition to the corpus of data on the Dorset culture, but it was never presented as such by Thomas Lee. Somehow, this discovery was twisted into something else, and although Dorset longhouses are today being recognized in different parts of the Arctic world, the Imaha site at Pamiok Island carries false ghosts from the past. Following unsubstantiated conclusions from archaeological work done there in the mid-1960s, the Kangirsummiut still believe the site is of Viking origin, and this myth is being carried on outside Nunavik by visitors who are not informed better. This essay aims to end this charade once and for all and restore the true nature of the Imaha site.
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1348.More information
Chesnais Jean-Claude.- Immigration and the population of the United States The settling of the United States is a recent event. Unlike the colonization of South America, where a small minority of Europeans imposed its law upon several million Amerindian occupants, the colonization of North America was based on the early importation of African slaves (roughly 400 000, most of whom were introduced in the eighteenth century) and above all the massive arrival of Europeans (nearly 40 million), which reached its maximum between 1845 and 1915. At the time of the Mayflower (1620), the population was still less than one million inhabitants. Following a period in which the frontiers were relatively closed (1915-1965), immigration resumed, with racial preference eliminated. In 1998, the population of the United States reached 270 million inhabitants. Its ethnic composition is undergoing far-reaching changes: in a few years, Hispanics will outnumber Blacks, a development that is causing concern over linguistic unity, previously based on English and now threatened by the spread of Spanish. In a state like California, the traditional 'White non-Hispanic' majority is about to be overtaken by the 'minorities' (Hispanics, Blacks, Asians Amerindians). Overall, the population of the United States is the third largest in the world, and its relative advantage compared with the other G5 countries will increase over the next decades.
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