At least 30 of these viruses can be sexually transmitted. HPV transmission occurs easily among sexual partners. This is evidenced by the fact that at least 50 percent of sexually active men and women acquire a genital HPV infection at some point in their lives.
A farm worker corrals cranberries in a bog during a harvest. Every schoolchild learns that the Pilgrims couldn't have survived life in the New World without the help of the Indians. The tribes taught them which crops to plant. They introduced them to corn and other nutritional mainstays. One of these, the American cranberry, is still part of the classic Thanksgiving feast.
Squanto and Samoset were two Algonquin men who communicated with the Pilgrims in Plymouth Colony. The British had been colonizing the New World for decades before the Pilgrims began their journey in 1620. In 1605, a British general captured Squanto and brought him to England to learn English.