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The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756.
Name Life Years active Country of origin Comments Jerry Abershawe: 1773–1795 United Kingdom: Last executed highwayman to have his body put on public display in England. James Aitken: 1752–1777 United Kingdom: A mercenary who committed acts of sabotage in Royal Navy naval dockyards during the American Revolutionary War in 1776–77. John ...
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The annual rendezvous was often held at Horse Creek on the Green River, now called the Upper Green River Rendezvous Site, near present-day Pinedale, Wyoming. Another popular site in the same general area was Pierre's Hole. By the mid-1830s, it attracted 450 to 500 men annually: essentially all the American trappers and traders working in the ...
During the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, he led a migration of African Americans from San Francisco to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Thomas Gilman (miner) 1830–1911 Tennessee, U.S. African American freedman, miner, farmer was an enslaved African American who self–purchase freedom during the mid-19th-century Daniel Govan: 1829–1911
John Michell (/ ˈ m ɪ tʃ əl /; 25 December 1724 – 21 April 1793) was an English natural philosopher and clergyman who provided pioneering insights into a wide range of scientific fields including astronomy, geology, optics, and gravitation.
John Henry is briefly mentioned in an episode of 30 Rock, during season 6 titled "The Ballad of Kenneth Parcell". In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles season 2 episode 10 John Henry is introduced both as the name of ZeiraCorp's A.I. and as the tale of a man who is unable to halt progress.