Life in Jamestown. Find out what it took to be a settler in the early-American colony of Jamestown. Introduction. On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River.
Winters in Shanghai are about as cold as winters in Seattle (but quite a bit less rainy). In southern China, it's a bit hard to say. In the mountains of southwestern China, winters are mild to cool, but now very cloudy and almost always without any snow, while in lower southeastern China, winters are warm and humid, like in Florida. December 21, 2010
The Great Wall of China winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus of northern China, stretching approximately 6,700 kilometers (4,163 miles) from the Jiayu Pass (in Gansu Province) in the west, to the mouth of the Yalu River (in Liaoning Province) in the east.