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Henry Hudson (c. 1565 – disappeared 23 June 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of ...
William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922), known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. Born in the Argentinian pampas where he roamed free in his youth, he observed bird life and collected specimens for the Smithsonian Institution.
Henry Hudson (died 1611), English sea explorer and navigator; Henry Hudson (artist) (born 1982), British artist; Henry E. Hudson (born 1947), United States district court judge for the Eastern District of Virginia; Henry Louis Hudson (1898–1975), Canadian ice hockey player; Henry Philerin Hudson (1798–1889), Irish music collector
Henry H. Hudson, the Man The easy part was finding the history. Hudson was publisher of the Star-Advocate for 47 years, having moved to Titusville in 1925, buying a majority of what was then the ...
Manhattan was first mapped during a 1609 voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company. [15] Hudson came across Manhattan Island and the native people living there, and continued up the river that would later bear his name, the Hudson River, until he arrived at the site of present-day Albany. [16]
People of the Hudson Highlands area believed that Colman's spirit became the Dwerg, Heer of Dunderberg, a goblin who dressed in Dutch clothing, who raise storms to sink ships at World's End (the area just north of West Point where the Hudson is over 200 feet deep.) The Heer appears in writings by Washington Irving. [6]
Man carrying a keg up the mountain – The ghost of one of Henry Hudson's crew members; Ninepin bowlers – The ghosts of Henry Hudson's crewmen from his ship, the Half-Moon; they share their liquor with Rip Van Winkle and play a game of ninepins. Brom Dutcher – Van Winkle's neighbor who went off to war while Van Winkle was sleeping
Woolsey left New York for England in 1929, settling in Dorset to be near Llewelyn, where she came to know the whole Powys family and their circle. Parting from Llewelyn in 1930, she married the historian and writer Gerald Brenan in a private ceremony, and they lived together, mainly in Spain, until her death.