Ice Harvest Festival: Tully, N.Y., 2009
This is a video I made about the ice harvesting process that happens annually during the Tully Ice Harvest Festival in Tully, N.Y. in February of 2009. This was for an assignment for my MCJ 300 class at The University of Southern Mississippi.
Drone fly over Central New York ski resort as 2016 ski season opens
An aerial drone flight over Song Mountain captures its opening day after 40 of snowfall.
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Incredible Syrian Classical Guitarist! Ayman Jarjour at ELREC's Autumn Celebration. A #CCF Event
COMMUNITY EVENT PART OF THE SCOTTISH CLIMATE WEEK 2017 #ScotClimateWeek
Towards the end of the event Ayman Jarjour, Classical Guitarist, mesmerized the audience with his incredible performance as part of the Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Equality Council's (ELREC) Autumn Celebration 2017 funded by the Climate Challenge Fund.
Festive event with great diversity of people, stalls and activities to celebrate #climateaction as part of the #climateweek.
Thank you to all the stallholders including Home Energy Scotland South East, RSPB Scotland, Forestry Commission Scotland, the Cyrenians, Love Food Hate Waste, Face Painting and Henna painting, Upcycling, Food growing, and Energy efficiency.
We are grateful to the funders The Scottish Government Climate Challenge Fund managed and developed by the excellent environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful for making those events possible.
Thank you to all the volunteers.
Ayman has performed solo and with a wide variety of musicians in the Middle East, Far East, North America, Europe and Africa.
Ayman performs a wide range of the classical guitar repertoire, ranging from the traditional Spanish/Latin American, through Baroque and Classical, to contemporary music. Some examples can be found in his CD.
Ayman Jarour
Since his recital debut in Damascus, Syria, Ayman Jarjour has been actively performing in the Middle East, Europe, the United States, Africa and the Far East. His solo performances with orchestra include the world premiere of Olypmus (concerto for guitar and orchestra) by Evis Sammoutis with the Hessle Sinfonia. He played the Syrian premiere of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Solhi Al Wadi and Concierto Andaluz with the Syrian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Nahel Halabi.
Ayman's international performances include concerts in Damascus, Beirut, Amman, Madrid, Bonn, Helsinki, London, Edinburgh, Tunis, Khartoum, Valletta, Cairo, Alexandria, Istanbul and Taipei. The latter attended by the Taiwanese President. In New York, he gave a concert to standing ovation at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall as winner of Artists International’s Special Presentation Award.
While pursuing his Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School, Ayman performed in concerts at the Juilliard Theater and Alice Tully Hall. He also performed at the Continental Center and the Salisbury State University Concert Series and played in the Focus! Festival as well as in the Juilliard productions of The Three Sisters by Chekhov and A Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare.
Ayman received his Bachelor’s degree from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, Spain where studied with Jose Luis Rodrigo, Segovia’s favorite student. In New York he strudied with Sharon Isbin (Juilliard); in Boston with Neil Anderson (New England Conservatory) and in Damascus with Nabil Ghrewati.
Ayman served on the faculty of the High Institute of Music in Damascus and has been teaching in different cities (Madrid, London, Brussels, New York among others.)
Whiskey Rebellion | Wikipedia audio article
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Whiskey Rebellion
00:02:48 1 Whiskey tax
00:04:51 2 Western grievances
00:08:34 3 Resistance
00:14:05 4 Insurrection
00:16:29 4.1 Battle of Bower Hill
00:18:42 4.2 March on Pittsburgh
00:20:52 4.3 Meeting at Whiskey Point
00:21:46 4.4 Federal response
00:24:01 4.4.1 Negotiations
00:25:54 4.4.2 Militia expedition
00:29:54 4.5 Aftermath
00:32:38 5 Legacy
00:34:32 5.1 In popular culture
00:37:15 6 Research materials
00:38:56 7 See also
00:39:05 8 Notes
00:39:14 9 Bibliography
00:41:49 10 Further reading
00:42:55 11 External links
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The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington, ultimately under the command of American Revolutionary war veteran Major James McFarlane. The so-called whiskey tax was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. It became law in 1791, and was intended to generate revenue for the war debt incurred during the Revolutionary War. The tax applied to all distilled spirits, but American whiskey was by far the country's most popular distilled beverage in the 18th century, so the excise became widely known as a whiskey tax. Farmers of the western frontier were accustomed to distilling their surplus rye, barley, wheat, corn, or fermented grain mixtures into whiskey. These farmers resisted the tax. In these regions, whiskey often served as a medium of exchange. Many of the resisters were war veterans who believed that they were fighting for the principles of the American Revolution, in particular against taxation without local representation, while the federal government maintained that the taxes were the legal expression of Congressional taxation powers.
Throughout Western Pennsylvania counties, protesters used violence and intimidation to prevent federal officials from collecting the tax. Resistance came to a climax in July 1794, when a U.S. marshal arrived in western Pennsylvania to serve writs to distillers who had not paid the excise. The alarm was raised, and more than 500 armed men attacked the fortified home of tax inspector General John Neville. Washington responded by sending peace commissioners to western Pennsylvania to negotiate with the rebels, while at the same time calling on governors to send a militia force to enforce the tax. Washington himself rode at the head of an army to suppress the insurgency, with 13,000 militiamen provided by the governors of Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The rebels all went home before the arrival of the army, and there was no confrontation. About 20 men were arrested, but all were later acquitted or pardoned. Most distillers in nearby Kentucky were found to be all but impossible to tax—in the next six years, over 175 distillers from Kentucky were convicted of violating the tax law. Numerous examples of resistance are recorded in court documents and newspaper accounts.The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the will and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws, though the whiskey excise remained difficult to collect. The events contributed to the formation of political parties in the United States, a process already underway. The whiskey tax was repealed in the early 1800s during the Jefferson administration.
Memory How to Develop, Train and Use it by William Walker Atkinson | Audiobook with subtitles
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Gleb Ivanov | Young Concert Artists: Artist Profile
Eerily like the ghost of Horowitz, Mr. Ivanov engulfed the keyboard, rattling the rafters and thrilling the audience. — The Washington Times
Pianist Gleb Ivanov captivates audiences with a personality to match his larger-than-life talent. His blend of power and finesse (The Birmingham News) polish, grandeur, and intelligence (The Berkshire Review) distinguishes him among today's leading pianists.
Mr. Ivanov's upcoming concerto performances include the Knoxville, Dearborn and Springfield symphonies as well as the Symphony at Western Kentucky University. Adored in Paris, he returns for the 5th time at the Louvre performing duos and trios with violinist Mikhail Simonyan and cellist Jens Peter Maintz. Mr. Ivanov will appear in recital at Pittsburgh's Rodef Shalom Congregation and in a return engagement at the Evergreen Museum & Library.
In recognition of his impressive achievements, he was honored with the 2010 Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, to perform at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Among Mr. Ivanov's frequent re-engagements are concerts in Paris, Princeton University, The Paramount Theater, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Pianofest in East Hampton, and at Island Concerts. He has appeared with orchestras including the Missouri, Johnstown, West Michigan, Eastern Connecticut, South Bend, Westmoreland, Southwest Florida, Peoria, and Napa Valley symphonies, and with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic.
A protégé of Mstislav Rostropovich, Mr. Ivanov appeared as soloist under the famous maestro with the Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic. While a student in Russia he performed with the Moscow State Orchestra, in the Great Hall at Moscow Conservatory, with the Kremlin Orchestra, and at the Pushkin, Glinka, and Scriabin Museums in Moscow.
Mr. Ivanov was First Prize Winner in the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Through YCA, he received an award from the Jack Romann Special Artists Fund of YCA and was presented in his New York debut at Carnegie's Zankel Hall and in his Washington, DC debut at the Kennedy Center, both to critical acclaim. Among his other Prizes, Mr. Ivanov won First Prizes at the 1994 and 1996 International Classical Legacy Competitions in Moscow, and the prize for Best Performance of a Beethoven Sonata at the First International Vladimir Horowitz Competition in Kiev in 1995.
Mr. Ivanov comes from a family of musicians, and began to accompany his father's vocal recitals at the age of eight. He has also played the clarinet and the accordion, and holds a diploma in clarinet from Lyardov High School. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 2005, where his teachers included the renowned Lev Naumov. Moving to the United States after winning the YCA Auditions, Mr. Ivanov earned his Master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music, working with Nina Svetlanova. Mr. Ivanov is a recipient of a Musical Studies Grant from the Bagby Foundation.
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Documentary examines life inside America's supermax prisons
The nation's supermax prisons hold most inmates in solitary confinement -- in eight-by-10 cells, 23 hours a day -- often for years at a time. There are over 40 such facilities operating across the U.S. The new HBO documentary, Solitary, goes inside one of them: the Red Onion State Prison in Southwest Virginia. Director and producer Kristi Jacobson joins CBS This Morning to discuss the film.
Seattle, Washington | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:53 1 History
00:04:02 1.1 Founding
00:05:13 1.2 Duwamps 1852–1853
00:06:19 1.3 Incorporations
00:07:20 1.4 Timber town
00:09:05 1.5 Gold Rush, World War I, and the Great Depression
00:14:24 1.6 Post-war years: aircraft and software
00:19:06 2 Geography
00:20:07 2.1 Cityscape
00:20:16 2.2 Topography
00:24:40 2.3 Climate
00:37:50 3 Demographics
00:45:44 4 Economy
00:50:40 5 Culture
00:50:55 5.1 Nicknames
00:51:57 5.2 Performing arts
00:56:14 5.3 Tourism
01:00:07 6 Professional sports
01:06:33 7 Parks and recreation
01:08:12 8 Government and politics
01:13:25 9 Education
01:16:05 10 Media
01:19:07 11 Infrastructure
01:19:16 11.1 Health systems
01:21:05 11.2 Transportation
01:26:31 11.3 Utilities
01:27:23 12 Notable people
01:27:33 13 Sister cities
01:27:45 14 See also
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Seattle ( (listen) see-AT-əl) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 744,955 residents as of 2018, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. According to U.S. Census data released in 2018, the Seattle metropolitan area's population stands at 3.94 million, and ranks as the 15th largest in the United States. In July 2013, it was the fastest-growing major city in the United States and remained in the top 5 in May 2015 with an annual growth rate of 2.1%. In July 2016, Seattle was again the fastest-growing major U.S. city, with a 3.1% annual growth rate. Seattle is the northernmost large city in the United States.
The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canada–United States border. A major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015.The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, Oregon, on the schooner Exact at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, in honor of Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Today, Seattle has high populations of Native, Scandinavian, African, and Asian Americans, as well as a thriving LGBT community that ranks 6th in the United States for population.Logging was Seattle's first major industry, but by the late 19th century, the city had become a commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. Growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed into a technology center from the 1980s onwards with companies like Microsoft becoming established in the region; Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a Seattleite by birth. Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle in 1994, and major airline Alaska Airlines is based in SeaTac, Washington, serving Seattle's international airport, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population by almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000. Owing largely to its rapidly increasing population in the 21st century, Seattle and the state of Washington have some of the highest minimum wages in the country, at $15 per hour for smaller businesses and $16 for the city's largest employers.Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed al ...
Military Funeral TRACIE GALLAGHER REID, Air Force and Buffalo Police Officer
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Jocko Podcast 105 w/ Echo Charles: We Were Soldiers Once... And Young
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Semi-truck plows into stopped traffic causing deadly highway pileup
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DriveAbout 124 - Seattle, Washington (Italiano)
La vista dallo Spaceneedle...
The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington, and is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and a symbol of Seattle. Located at the Seattle Center, it was built for the 1962 World's Fair, during which time nearly 20,000 people a day used the elevators, with over 2.3 million visitors in all for the World Fair. The Space Needle is 605 feet (184 m) high and 138 feet (42 m) wide at its widest point and weighs 9,550 tons. When it was completed it was the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River. It is built to withstand winds of up to 200 mph (320 km/h) and earthquakes up to 9.5 magnitude[citation needed] (which would protect the structure against an earthquake as powerful as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake). The tower has 25 lightning rods on its roof to prevent lightning damage.
The Space Needle features an observation deck at 520 feet (160 m), the SkyCity restaurant at 500 feet (152 m), and a gift shop. From the top of the Needle, one can see not only the Downtown Seattle skyline, but also the Olympic and Cascade Mountains, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, Elliott Bay and surrounding islands. Photographs of the Seattle skyline often show the Space Needle in a prominent position, even appearing to tower above the rest of the city's skyscrapers, as well as Mount Rainier in the background. This occurs because the tower, which is equivalent in height to a 60-story building, stands roughly four-fifths of a mile (1.3 km) northwest of most downtown skyscrapers.
Visitors can reach the top of the Space Needle via elevators that travel at 10 mph (16 km/h). The trip takes 43 seconds, and some tourists wait in hour-long lines in order to ascend to the top of the tower. On windy days, the elevators are slowed down to a speed of 5 mph. The Space Needle was designated a historic landmark on April 19, 1999.
Seattle (pronounced /siˈætl ̩/) is a coastal port city and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located in the state of Washington between an arm of the Pacific Ocean called Puget Sound and Lake Washington, in King County—of which it is the county seat—about 96 miles (154 km) south of the Canada -- United States border.
The Seattle area has been inhabited for at least 4,000 years, but European settlement began only in the mid-19th century. The first permanent white settlers—Arthur A. Denny and those subsequently known as the Denny Party—arrived November 13, 1851. Early settlements in the area were called New York-Alki (Alki meaning by and by in the local Chinook Jargon) and Duwamps. In 1853, Doc Maynard suggested that the main settlement be renamed Seattle, an anglicized rendition of the name of Sealth, the chief of the two local tribes.
According to the Washington State Office of Financial Management's April 1, 2008 estimate, the city has a municipal population of 592,800, and a metro population of 4,038,741.
From 1869 until 1982, Seattle was known as the Queen City. Seattle's current official nickname is the Emerald City, the result of a contest held in the early 1980s; the reference is to the lush evergreen trees in the surrounding area. Seattle is also referred to informally as the Gateway to Alaska, Rain City, and Jet City, the latter from the local influence of Boeing. Seattle residents are known as Seattleites.
Seattle is the birthplace of grunge music and has a reputation for heavy coffee consumption; coffee companies founded or based in Seattle include Starbucks, Seattle's Best Coffee, and Tully's. There are also many successful independent artisanal espresso roasters and cafes. Researchers at Central Connecticut State University ranked Seattle the most literate city of America's sixty-nine largest cities in 2005 and 2006 and second most literate in 2007, after Minneapolis.[16] Moreover, analysis conducted by the United States Census Bureau of 2003 survey data indicated that Seattle was the most educated large city in the U.S. with 51.6 percent of residents 25 and older having at least bachelor degrees. Based on per capita income, in 2006 the Seattle metropolitan area ranked 17th out of 363 metropolitan areas in a study by the Census Bureau.
Dr. Bill J. Priest Tribute
Members of the Dallas community, as well as employees and students from the Dallas County Community College District, celbrated the life of DCCCD’s first chancellor, Dr. Bill J. Priest, who died Dec. 31, 2014 at the age of 97. A special tribute was held Wednesday, April 22, at Eastfield College in Mesquite.
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DriveAbout 125 - Seattle, Washington (Italiano)
La vista dallo Spaceneedle... mentre giochiamo con una telecamera mobile ad alta definizione che è a disposizione per i visitatori.
The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington, and is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and a symbol of Seattle. Located at the Seattle Center, it was built for the 1962 World's Fair, during which time nearly 20,000 people a day used the elevators, with over 2.3 million visitors in all for the World Fair. The Space Needle is 605 feet (184 m) high and 138 feet (42 m) wide at its widest point and weighs 9,550 tons. When it was completed it was the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River. It is built to withstand winds of up to 200 mph (320 km/h) and earthquakes up to 9.5 magnitude[citation needed] (which would protect the structure against an earthquake as powerful as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake). The tower has 25 lightning rods on its roof to prevent lightning damage.
The Space Needle features an observation deck at 520 feet (160 m), the SkyCity restaurant at 500 feet (152 m), and a gift shop. From the top of the Needle, one can see not only the Downtown Seattle skyline, but also the Olympic and Cascade Mountains, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, Elliott Bay and surrounding islands. Photographs of the Seattle skyline often show the Space Needle in a prominent position, even appearing to tower above the rest of the city's skyscrapers, as well as Mount Rainier in the background. This occurs because the tower, which is equivalent in height to a 60-story building, stands roughly four-fifths of a mile (1.3 km) northwest of most downtown skyscrapers.
Visitors can reach the top of the Space Needle via elevators that travel at 10 mph (16 km/h). The trip takes 43 seconds, and some tourists wait in hour-long lines in order to ascend to the top of the tower. On windy days, the elevators are slowed down to a speed of 5 mph. The Space Needle was designated a historic landmark on April 19, 1999.
Seattle (pronounced /siˈætl ̩/) is a coastal port city and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located in the state of Washington between an arm of the Pacific Ocean called Puget Sound and Lake Washington, in King County—of which it is the county seat—about 96 miles (154 km) south of the Canada -- United States border.
The Seattle area has been inhabited for at least 4,000 years, but European settlement began only in the mid-19th century. The first permanent white settlers—Arthur A. Denny and those subsequently known as the Denny Party—arrived November 13, 1851. Early settlements in the area were called New York-Alki (Alki meaning by and by in the local Chinook Jargon) and Duwamps. In 1853, Doc Maynard suggested that the main settlement be renamed Seattle, an anglicized rendition of the name of Sealth, the chief of the two local tribes.
According to the Washington State Office of Financial Management's April 1, 2008 estimate, the city has a municipal population of 592,800, and a metro population of 4,038,741.
From 1869 until 1982, Seattle was known as the Queen City. Seattle's current official nickname is the Emerald City, the result of a contest held in the early 1980s; the reference is to the lush evergreen trees in the surrounding area. Seattle is also referred to informally as the Gateway to Alaska, Rain City, and Jet City, the latter from the local influence of Boeing. Seattle residents are known as Seattleites.
Seattle is the birthplace of grunge music and has a reputation for heavy coffee consumption; coffee companies founded or based in Seattle include Starbucks, Seattle's Best Coffee, and Tully's. There are also many successful independent artisanal espresso roasters and cafes. Researchers at Central Connecticut State University ranked Seattle the most literate city of America's sixty-nine largest cities in 2005 and 2006 and second most literate in 2007, after Minneapolis.[16] Moreover, analysis conducted by the United States Census Bureau of 2003 survey data indicated that Seattle was the most educated large city in the U.S. with 51.6 percent of residents 25 and older having at least bachelor degrees. Based on per capita income, in 2006 the Seattle metropolitan area ranked 17th out of 363 metropolitan areas in a study by the Census Bureau.
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Seattle | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:11 1 History
00:03:20 1.1 Founding
00:04:27 1.2 Duwamps 1852–1853
00:05:29 1.3 Incorporations
00:06:26 1.4 Timber town
00:08:04 1.5 Gold Rush, World War I, and the Great Depression
00:13:02 1.6 Post-war years: aircraft and software
00:17:28 2 Geography
00:18:25 2.1 Cityscape
00:18:33 2.2 Topography
00:22:39 2.3 Climate
00:34:19 3 Demographics
00:41:41 4 Economy
00:46:17 5 Culture
00:46:32 5.1 Nicknames
00:47:29 5.2 Performing arts
00:51:30 5.3 Tourism
00:55:09 6 Professional sports
01:01:08 7 Parks and recreation
01:02:40 8 Government and politics
01:07:34 9 Education
01:10:04 10 Media
01:12:51 11 Infrastructure
01:13:00 11.1 Health systems
01:14:42 11.2 Transportation
01:19:33 11.3 Utilities
01:20:19 12 Notable people
01:20:28 13 Sister cities
01:20:40 14 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Seattle ( (listen) see-AT-əl) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 730,000 residents as of 2018, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. According to U.S. Census data released in 2018, the Seattle metropolitan area’s population stands at 3.87 million, and ranks as the 15th largest in the United States. In July 2013, it was the fastest-growing major city in the United States and remained in the Top 5 in May 2015 with an annual growth rate of 2.1%. In July 2016, Seattle was again the fastest-growing major U.S. city, with a 3.1% annual growth rate. Seattle is the northernmost large city in the United States.
The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canada–United States border. A major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015.The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, Oregon, on the schooner Exact at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, in honor of Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes.
Logging was Seattle's first major industry, but by the late 19th century, the city had become a commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. Growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed into a technology center from the 1980s onwards with companies like Microsoft becoming established in the region; Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a Seattleite by birth. Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle in 1994, and major airline Alaska Airlines was founded in SeaTac, Washington, serving Seattle's international airport, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population by almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000.
Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District to the Central District. The jazz scene nurtured the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix, as well as the origin of the bands Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Foo Fighters and the alternative rock movement grunge.