Princess Shirahoshi, also known as the Mermaid Princess (äººé­å§«, Ningyo Hime), is a giant smelt-whiting mermaid and the youngest of King Neptune's children.
Dumbarton House is the Society's Headquarters. The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America[1] is an American organization composed of women who are descended from an ancestor who came to reside in an American Colony before 1776, and whose services were rendered during the Colonial Period..
The first French colonial empire. The early voyages of Giovanni da Verrazano and Jacques Cartier in the early 16th century, as well as the frequent voyages of French fishermen to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland throughout that century, were the precursors to the story of France's colonial expansion.