Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation is a 1989 American feature film dramatizing the events of the 1787 Constitutional Convention.The film was produced by Brigham Young University to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the drafting of the United States Constitution, and many professors from BYU's School of Fine Arts and Communications were involved in its production either as actors ...
James Weddell FRSE (24 August 1787 – 9 September 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle—and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea.
Alan Weddell (born 1950), American college football coach; Alexander W. Weddell (1876–1948), American diplomat; ambassador to Argentina and Spain; Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819–1877), English botanist; James Weddell (1787–1834), English navigator and Antarctic explorer; Robert Weddell (1882–1951), Australian soldier and government ...
Under the command of Captain James Weddell she explored the area around the South Shetland Islands and in 1823 reached the southernmost point ever reached until then. From about 1825 on she traded generally as a merchantman until she was condemned in 1829.
June 7 – William Conybeare (died 1857), English geologist. June 27 – Thomas Say (died 1834), American naturalist. August 16 – Jean Michel Claude Richard (died 1868), French botanist. August 24 – James Weddell (died 1834), Flemish-born Anglo-Scots seal hunter and Antarctic explorer.
Jane was an American vessel launched in 1810 or 1812 and taken in prize, first appearing in British registers in 1818. She then became a whaler.Under the command of Captain James Weddell she explored the area around the South Shetland Islands and in 1823 reached the southernmost point ever reached until then.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
September 5 – Thomas Lee, English architect (b. 1794) September 9 – James Weddell, Antarctic explorer (b. 1787) September 15 – William H. Crawford, American politician, judge (b. 1772) September 16 – William Blackwood, Scottish writer (b. 1776) September 24 – Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1798) October 5 – María Josefa Pimentel ...