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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 ...
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.
James Weddell (1787–1834), English navigator and Antarctic explorer; Robert Weddell (1882–1951), Australian soldier and government administrator; Places.
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]
Jane was an American vessel launched in 1810 or 1812 and taken in prize, first appearing in British registers in 1818. She then became a whaler.Under the command of Captain James Weddell she explored the area around the South Shetland Islands and in 1823 reached the southernmost point ever reached until then.
August 24 – James Weddell (died 1834), Flemish-born Anglo-Scots seal hunter and Antarctic explorer. September 5 – François Sulpice Beudant (died 1850), French mineralogist et geologist. September 15 – Guillaume-Henri Dufour (died 1875), Swiss engineer et topographer. November 5 – John Richardson (died 1865), Scottish naturalist ...
Walter Hawkins (15 March 1787 – 27 January 1862) was one of six children of John Hawkins, a merchant. He was baptised on 10 April 1787 at New Broad Street Independent church. [ 1 ] He was educated in Hackney and was a ship and insurance broker in London until he retired in about 1848. [ 2 ]
'Publius' (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay) – The Federalist papers (serial publication begins with Hamilton's "Federalist No. 1 – General Introduction" in The Independent Journal (New York City), October 27) [11] Scots Musical Museum, vol. 1; Mary Wollstonecraft – Thoughts on the Education of Daughters [12]