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The education division of the National Endowment for the Humanities has prepared a lesson plan for schools asking whether "robber baron" or "captain of industry" is the better terminology. The lesson states that it attempts to help students "establish a distinction between robber barons and captains of industry.
Neptune's Car in Hong Kong harbor. Mary Ann Brown was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1837 to George and Elizabeth Brown. She married a young captain named Joshua Adams Patten in Boston on April 1, 1853, just before her 16th birthday. [5] In 1855 Captain Patten was offered the command of a clipper ship named Neptune's Car. Patten was ...
Joshua’s Law is a Georgia state law enacted in 2007 [1] changing the driver's license requirements for teen drivers. [2] A teen driver must meet the new requirements to obtain a Georgia driver’s license. The law was named after Joshua Brown, who died in an accident in 2003. [3]
Joshua S. Levy is an American lawyer who has served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts since November 2024. [1] In May 2023, Levy was appointed acting United States Attorney and in October 2023, he was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the permanent U.S. attorney.
Spray was the sailboat used by 19th-century Canadian-American seaman and author Joshua Slocum during the first solo circumnavigation of the Earth. Slocum departed Boston Harbor in the 36-foot-9-inch (11.20 m) vessel on April 24, 1895 and returned to Newport, Rhode Island on June 27, 1898, becoming the first person known to have sailed around the world alone.
Tristram Coffin, born in 1609 in Brixton, Devon, sailed for America in 1642, first settling in Newbury, Massachusetts, then moving to Nantucket. [1] [2] The Coffins, along with other Nantucket families, including the Gardners and the Starbucks, began whaling seriously in the 1690s in local waters, and by 1715 the family owned three whaling ships (whalers) and a trade vessel. [1]
[1] [3] As part of the Loyalist migration to Nova Scotia, the Slocombes were granted 500 acres (2.0 km 2) of farmland in Nova Scotia's Annapolis County. Slocum's childhood school, now the Mount Hanley Schoolhouse Museum. Joshua Slocum was born in the family's farmhouse in Mount Hanley and learned to read and write at the nearby Mount Hanley School.
Joshua 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible or in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to Joshua, with additions by the high priests Eleazar and Phinehas, [2] [3] but modern scholars view it as part of the Deuteronomistic History, which spans the books of Deuteronomy to 2 Kings, attributed to ...