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  2. A More Perfect Union (film) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. James Weddell - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Weddell - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. History of Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    The visit to South Georgia by the English merchant Anthony de la Roché in 1675 was the first ever discovery of land south of the Antarctic Convergence. [17] [18] Soon after the voyage cartographers started to depict 'Roché Island', honouring the discoverer. James Cook was aware of La Roché's discovery when surveying and mapping the island in ...

  6. Matthew Brisbane - Wikipedia

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    Brisbane first rose to public attention though his association with James Weddell, the famous Antarctic explorer. [2] Brisbane was the commander of the small cutter Beaufoy with a crew of thirteen; the Beaufoy being owned by Weddell. Weddell in the Jane and Brisbane in the Beaufoy left England on 17 September 1822. [3]

  7. 1787 in science - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Category:Films set in 1787 - Wikipedia

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  9. Portal : History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 24

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