Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henry Ambrose <henryambrose@home.com> wrote: > I was wondering how it came to be that anyone could live year-round in > a place as cold as, say, Chicago, Detroit, wherever? How did the > northern US become populated? (much less Canada) Why didn't everyone > leave *if* they survived the first winter? Arriving to the US in the fall, the new immigrants settled in the south. The first winter was mild. All was good. The next summer, their brains boiled. All who had any sense left moved north. The rest? They stayed in the south. :) <ducking behind his snow fort, and stockpiling snowballs for return fire> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/