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    Protestant settlers from England and Scotland. England became a colonial and seafaring maritime power, with rich development of art, trade, commerce,...
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    had a great capacity for planning, likely months in advance of the trip. However, there is no evidence of the watercrafts required for such seafaring...
    136 KB (15,839 words) - 21:53, 28 June 2024
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    Crowninshield family is an American family that was historically prominent in seafaring, political and military leadership, and the literary world. The founder...
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    and teaching a lesson to those he meets: He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth...
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    Sanchi (redirect from Great Stupa of Sanchi)
    wind instruments with dragon head from West Asia" in The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia, Himanshu Prabha Ray, Cambridge University Press...
    172 KB (10,205 words) - 15:51, 1 July 2024
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    Henrik Ibsen (category The Four Greats)
    was born, Skien had for centuries been one of Norway's most important and internationally oriented cities, and a centre of seafaring, timber exports and...
    70 KB (8,604 words) - 14:01, 3 July 2024
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    Dominica and Martinique. The Taíno ("Taíno" means "peace", were peaceful seafaring people and distant relatives of the Arawak people of South America. Taíno...
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    Casson (1994). "Chapter 7: The Age of the Supergalleys" (PDF). Ships and Seafaring in Ancient Times. University of Texas Press. p. 84. ISBN 029271162X. Archived...
    19 KB (2,176 words) - 04:00, 16 June 2024
  • over seven seasons, between September 27, 2012, and August 15, 2019. Aired a week earlier in Canada at 7 pm Eastern/Pacific; the originally planned April...
    334 KB (5,976 words) - 06:27, 26 June 2024
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    eastern point having been weathered away by the sea. The lighthouse was constructed in the third century BC. After Alexander the Great died, Ptolemy the...
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  • they have made a rule that wine-drinkers and seafaring men are never to be accepted as sureties. For they say that to be a seafaring man is all the same...
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    Retrieved 11 August 2019. Lampinen, Antti; Mataix-Ferrándiz, Emilia (2022). Seafaring and Mobility in the Late Antique Mediterranean. Bloomsbury Publishing...
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    The Sea Peoples are a hypothesized seafaring confederation that purportedly attacked Egypt and other Eastern Mediterranean regions around 1200 BC during...
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    Pritchard Hall (1849 – 1930) was a seafaring woman from Granville Beach, Nova Scotia. She is notable for taking command of a fever-ridden ship in 1870 and...
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    trade, seafaring and navigation, dominated commerce across classical antiquity and developed an expansive maritime trade network lasting over a millennium...
    92 KB (10,370 words) - 11:54, 11 July 2024
  • was a colloquial technical term in industry, mining, and seafaring. Nigger as "defect" (a hidden problem), derives from "nigger in the woodpile", a US...
    69 KB (7,774 words) - 14:02, 11 June 2024
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    conversion, he continued slave trading until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether. Newton began studying Christian theology and later became...
    63 KB (8,598 words) - 11:50, 16 June 2024
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    colonies engaged in a scramble to expand west. Following the 1684 revocation of the Somers Isles Company's Royal Charter, seafaring Bermudians established...
    102 KB (13,290 words) - 14:19, 2 July 2024
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    England (category Great Britain)
    invasion by pagan, seafaring warriors from north-western continental Europe, chiefly the Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Frisians who had long raided the coasts...
    226 KB (21,592 words) - 23:41, 8 July 2024
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    born into a seafaring culture. With the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Baltic and North Sea bordering southern Scandinavia, seafaring proved to be...
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