Instructions: Shake well with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass that has had its rim rubbed with lime juice and dipped in coarse salt. A note on the tequila: It should be 100 percent agave, the plant from which the stuff is traditionally made.Save the great golden anejos aÃ±ejos for. sippingssentially a variation on the Sidecar -- substituting tequila for brandy, lime juice for lemon, and salt rim for sugar -- the margarita shares its characteristic luminosity and, especially, its sneakiness.
King James I is the namesake of Jamestown, Virginia - the first permanent English settlement in America. The Pilgrims were sailing on the Mayflower ship to join the Jamestown Colony when the got blown off course in a winter storm and landed at Cape Cod. The Pilgrims had no charter from the King so they wrote their famous Mayflower Compact.
This 1639 church tower was one of the few remnants of the Jamestown Settlement visible in the 1890s, when the picture was taken. May 14, 1607. The Virginia Company of England made a daring proposition: sail to the new, mysterious land, which they called Virginia in honor of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, and begin a settlement. They established Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607, the first permanent British settlement in North America.