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For the previous two years, Lewis had been working in the White House as Jefferson's private secretary. Like Jefferson, Lewis had lost his father at an early age; now he was in daily contact with the President, who was practically a surrogate father to him. Lewis told Clark that...
Jefferson had given Lewis an unambiguous mission: to find "the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent." Judged by that yardstick, the captains had utterly failed. What Jefferson hoped would be a "practicable" water route had turned out to be a brutal portage across parts of Montana and Idaho...
What it did include was a cartographic masterpiece: Clark's map of the West. For the first time the blank spaces on the continent had been filled in with generally accurate representations of mountain ranges and rivers. Prominently marked on Clark's map were the names of dozens of tribes...
Dotcoms offering film and music on personal computers - so-called streaming media - have gone bust, and TV broadcasters pushing video-on-demand (VOD) won't recoup returns on their investments any time soon. But a multimedia service launched in Europe last month is hoping to show that the convergence of...
When Europeans complain about American cultural imperialism, what they usually have in mind is McDonald's taking business from the local boulangerie or U.S. moguls vying to wire the Continent for cable TV. But an American entertainment executive named Sam Davis has a subtler method of infiltration: he introduced Germany...