What does it mean to be democratic at the elections?

I've watched videos about the elections.It's been a long – really long – campaign, one full of twists and turns, gaffes and memes. Catch up on the story so far..Final estimates show the election was the most expensive in US history, with Obama having raised close to $1bn and Romney more than $800m. When figures for spending by supporters – mainly by the Super Pacs – are included, the total is well over $2bn.This is really impressive for me .

Mary Christmas

From home to home and heart to heart,

From one place to another,

The warmth and joy of Christmas,

Brings us closer to each other.

http://www.americanxmas.com/
http://www.americanxmas.com/home.cfm

Thanksgiving Day

I would like to wish you and your family  happy Thanksgiving!!
Thanksgiving comes once in a year, but may the feeling of gratitude live in our hearts all year round.
Have a Blessed Thanksgiving Day.

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/thanksgiving-day

http://www.thanksgiving-day.org/thanksgiving-day-tradition.html

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/peopleplaces/thanksgiving-traditions/

The State of New York

                                                           

New York, N.Y.

New York City is located on the Eastern Atlantic coast of the United States, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The city center resides at the exact location of 40 degrees, 42 minutes, 51 seconds N latitude, and 74 degrees, 0 minutes 23 seconds W longitude. New York City is made of five boroughs separated by various waterways. Brooklyn and Queens occupy the western portion of Long Island, while Staten Island and Manhattan are compeletely on their own land mass. Bronx, to the north, remains attached to the New York State mainland.

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0108570.html
http://www.nycgo.com/

http://www.nyc.gov/html/index.html

Walt Whitman

                                           Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

                      WALT WHITMAN was born in Westhills, Long Island, May 31, 1819, in a farm-house overlooking the sea. While yet a child his parents moved to Brooklyn, where he acquired his education. He learned type-setting at thirteen years of age. Two years later he taught a country school. He contributed to the "Democratic Review" before he was twenty-one years old. At thirty he traveled through the Western States, and spent one year in New Orleans editing a newspaper.
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/whitman/bio.htm

New York City Geographical Information

   New York City is located on the Eastern Atlantic coast of the United States, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The city center resides at the exact location of 40 degrees, 42 minutes, 51 seconds N latitude, and 74 degrees, 0 minutes 23 seconds W longitude.
    New York City is made of five boroughs separated by various waterways. Brooklyn and Queens occupy the western portion of Long Island, while Staten Island and Manhattan are compeletely on their own land mass. Bronx, to the north, remains attached to the New York State mainland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_New_York_City

The Climate of the State of New York

General Climatic Features The climate of New York State is broadly representative of the humid continental type, which prevails in the northeastern United States, but its diversity is not usually encountered within an area of comparable size. The geographical position of the state and the usual course of air masses, governed by the large-scale patterns of atmospheric circulation, provide general climatic controls. Differences in latitude, character of the topography, and proximity to large bodies of water have pronounced effects on the climate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City

History of the State of New York

    The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century--among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia--but none settled there until 1624. That year, the Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement on “Nutten Island” (today’s Governors Island) that they called New Amsterdam. In 1626, the settlement’s governor general, Peter Minuit, purchased the much larger Manhattan Island from the natives for 60 guilders in trade goods such as tools, farming equipment, cloth and wampum (shell beads).
   Fewer than 300 people lived in New Amsterdam when the settlement moved to Manhattan. But it grew quickly, and in 1760 the city (now called New York City; population 18,000) surpassed Boston to become the second-largest city in the American colonies. Fifty years later, with a population 202,589, it became the largest city in the Western hemisphere. Today, more than 8 million people live in the city’s five boroughs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City