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Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World (人間不信の冒険者たちが世界を救うようです, Ningen Fushin no Bōkensha-tachi ga Sekai o Sukuu Yō Desu, lit. "Adventurers Who Lost Faith in People Will Apparently Save the World") is a Japanese light novel series written by Shinta Fuji and illustrated by Susumu Kuroi.
The Eleutheran Adventurers were a group of English Puritans and religious Independents who left Bermuda to settle on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas in the late 1640s. . The small group of Puritan settlers, led by William Sayle, were expelled from Bermuda for their failure to swear allegiance to the Crown and left in search of a place in which they could freely practice their fa
Captain William Sayle [needs IPA] (c. 1590 – 1671) was a prominent English landholder who was Governor of Bermuda in 1643 and again in 1658. As an Independent in religion and politics, and an adherent of Oliver Cromwell, he was dissatisfied with life in Bermuda, and so founded the company of the Eleutheran Adventurers who became the first European settlers of the Bahamas between 1646 and 1648.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) ROPE JUMPER, TOM OLIVER, SAYING: "There's two conversations going on in your head. One's trying to talk you out of it and the other one's trying to talk you into it, and you ...
Livingstone's birthplace in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Scotland David Livingstone's birthplace, with period furnishings. Livingstone was born on 19 March 1813 in the mill town of Blantyre, Scotland, in a tenement building for the workers of a cotton factory on the banks of the River Clyde under the bridge crossing into Bothwell. [6]
Year lost Region Comments Willoughby expedition Hugh Willoughby: 1553 Barents Sea: British naval expedition financed by Sebastian Cabot to find a Northeast Passage through the Arctic, consisting of three ships under the command of Sir Willoughby and Richard Chancellor. The ships were separated in a storm in August 1553; Chancellor reached the ...
James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft.
Hugh Grant lost his confidence after listening too closely to those who criticized his talent. “I entirely lost faith that I could do anything else. I believed my critics really,” the actor ...