Native Americans introduced the sap of the spruce tree to early European settlers in New England.

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From the early settlers of the New World to those reaching for the American dream today, Hispanics have shaped and strengthened our country.

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Stepping onto the white sands of the deserted beach, crunchy with fragments of seashell, I get an inkling of what New Zealand's first European settlers must have felt when they arrived in this tropical Eden.

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Prensky defines digital natives as those born into an innate "new culture" while the digital immigrants are old-world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the digital world.

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One is that the Arabian settlers of 125, 000 years ago died out and were replaced by a new exodus from Africa.

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The settlers and their political backers are already preparing celebrations to mark a great splurge of new building.

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The New South Wales State Library says fragments of many lost languages exist in papers left by early settlers.

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Ibrahim says soon after the settlers appeared, Israeli officials came to reassure the residents of TurMus Aya about their new neighbors.

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Last week, Sharon left the Likud Party -- which he helped found in the 1970s -- and announced the creation of a new party, called Kadima -- officially separating himself from those in Likud who protested his pullout of Israeli settlers and troops from Gaza.

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