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The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of theological fiction in English literature and a progenitor of the narrative aspect of Christian media. [1][2][3][4][5][6] It has been translated into more than 200 languages ...
Battles/wars. Battle of New Orleans. Jean Lafitte (c.1780 – c.1823) was a French pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte". This has become the common spelling in the United States ...
1622 [1] Satellite image of the swamp around the time of the wet season. The Sudd (Arabic: السد, romanized: as-Sudd, Dinka: Toc) is a vast swamp in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile 's Baḥr al-Jabal section. The Arabic word sudd is derived from sadd (سد), meaning "barrier" [2] or "obstruction". [3] The term "the sudd" has come to ...
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Thursday-plus" in difficulty. [6] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.
Swamps of Belarus. Swamps, marshes, mires, bogs, and fens are important parts of the natural landscape in Belarus. Vast swamplands historically covered the country, and currently there are around 2.5 million hectares of wetlands in Belarus. Notable swamp regions are Pinsk Marshes and Olmany swamps in Polesia and Yelnya Swamp in Vitebsk region.
The Vasyugan Swamp (‹See Tfd› Russian: Васюганские болота, romanized: Vasyuganskiye bolota), also the Great Vasyugan Mire [1] is the largest swamp in the northern hemisphere as well as the largest peatland in the world. [2] It is located in Russia, in southwestern Siberia. and occupies 53,000 km 2 (13,000,000 acres), which ...
King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) [4] was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands against the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies.
There are two types of mire: bog and fen. [2] A bog is a mire that, due to its raised location relative to the surrounding landscape, obtains all its water solely from precipitation (ombrotrophic). [8] A fen is located on a slope, flat, or in a depression and gets most of its water from the surrounding mineral soil or from groundwater ...