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As Golden Hinde sails nears the cape, the crew scans the sea for Nuestra Seńora de la Concepción. Drake has offered the prize of a gold chain to he who first sights the vessel. At mid-day, she is first sighted by John Drake who spots her from the crow's-nest. She sails four leagues seaward from Golden Hinde.
The Jamestown supply missions were a series of fleets (or sometimes individual ships) from 1607 to around 1611 that were dispatched from England by the London Company (also known as the Virginia Company of London) with the specific goal of initially establishing the company's presence and later specifically maintaining the English settlement of "James Fort" on present-day Jamestown Island.
The wife of a missionary who was killed in a “violent, criminal attack” in Africa last week was arrested in connection to his death, his church announced.. Beau Shroyer, 44, from Detroit Lakes ...
1880 – Woman missionary doctor Fanny Butler goes to India; [295] Missionary periodical The Gospel in All Lands is launched by A. B. Simpson; [296] Justus Henry Nelson and Fannie Bishop Capen Nelson begin 45 years of service in Belém, Pará, Brazil, establishing the first Protestant Church in Amazonia in 1883
After visiting Italy for the first time with her father in 1975, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, from the United States, remembers thinking, “I’ll live here one day.” Almost three decades later she ...
Eric Church and his wife Katherine have been married since 2008. Read all about their sweet love story, which now includes becoming parents to their two kids.
Also oldest woman at the time (aged 70) to do the same thing 2012–2013, [36] also making her first woman to make solo non-stop unassisted circumnavigation from west coast of North America (Victoria BC, Canada). Oldest, in 2010–2011 (aged 68), to sail single-handedly around the world, with stops.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story includes interviews with Reeve’s three children Matthew, Alexandra, 40, and Will, 32, as well as his late wife Dana, who died in 2006 from lung cancer.