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The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada .
Isaak August Dorner. Isaak August Dorner (20 June 1809 – 8 July 1884) was a German Lutheran church leader. He served as a professor of theology at various institutions, including Tübingen, Kiel, Königsberg, Bonn, Göttingen, and Berlin.
In a famous example from the 1840s, the members of Donner Party found themselves stranded by snow in the Donner Pass, a high mountain pass in California, without adequate supplies during the Mexican–American War, leading to several instances of cannibalism, including the murder of two young Native American men for food.
Tartaro (or Tartaroa [1]) is the form given in some translated tales and commentary in French and English. [a] [2] [3]Torto, Anxo and Alarabi [b] were the forms listed in Jose Migel Barandiaran's Basque Mythology, [4] with "Tartalo" described as a local variant particular to the Zegama region. [4]
Juan Pablo de Bonet (1573-1633), pioneer of education for the deaf, he published Reducción de las letras y arte para enseñar a hablar a los mudos ("Summary of the letters and the art of teaching speech to the mute") in 1620 in Madrid, the first modern treatise of sign language phonetics, setting out a method of oral education for deaf people ...
Tamsen Eustis Dozier Donner (November 1, 1801 – March 1847) was an American pioneer, most notable for her key role as a member of the infamous Donner Party.Donner was described as having been "a little woman" [1] and "a good shot with a pistol". [2]
from Berber merīn ' Marinid ' (modern Spanish Benimerines), the people of North Africa who originally bred this type of sheep. moreno — brown , brunette , dark-skinned person from moro ' a Moor ' , from Latin Maurus , from Ancient Greek Maúros , probably of Berber origin, but possibly related to the Arabic مَغْرِب maġrib ' west ...
Isaac, the main protagonist in video games The Binding of Isaac and The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth; Isaac, a main character in Nintendo's Golden Sun series; Isaac, an android of extraterrestrial origin in American television series The Orville, played by Mark Jackson; Isaac Chroner, the main antagonist from the Stephen King short story Children ...