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William Claude Jones (c. 1815 – March 3, 1884) was an American politician, poet, fabulist, and "pursuer of nubile females," [1] including several teen brides. Among his accomplishments, he was a member of the Missouri and Arizona Territorial legislatures, United States Attorney for New Mexico Territory , and a member of the Hawaiian privy ...
The Ahiarmiut ᐃᓴᓪᒥᐅᑦ or Ihalmiut ("People from Beyond") or ("the Out-of-the-Way Dwellers") [1] [2] [3] are a group of inland Inuit who lived along the banks of the Kazan River, Ennadai Lake, [4] and Little Dubawnt Lake (renamed Kamilikuak), as well as north of Thlewiaza River ("Big River"), [5] in northern Canada's Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories, now the Kivalliq ...
Nunavut Day is a public holiday, per the 2001 Nunavut Day Holiday Order. [2] Despite being a declared public holiday in the territory, many organizations and stores remain open throughout the day. Employees of the federal government of Canada must still work on this day, as it is not treated as a public holiday for federal public servants ...
The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act went into effect on July 9, 1993 and its celebrated as a milestone of Nunavut becoming a territory, which didn't happen officially until April 1, 1999.
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land (1922).
The history of Nunavut covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Eskimo thousands of years ago to present day. Prior to the colonization of the continent by Europeans, the lands encompassing present-day Nunavut were inhabited by several historical cultural groups, including the Pre-Dorset , the Dorsets , the Thule and their descendants ...
Life Along the Passaic River is a collection of 18 works of short fiction by William Carlos Williams published in 1938 by New Directions Publishers.The stories were also collected in Make Light of It: Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams (1950) and The Farmers' Daughters: The Collected Short Stories of William Carlos Williams.
Tisquantum (/ t ɪ s ˈ k w ɒ n t əm /; c. 1585 (±10 years?) – November 30, 1622 O.S.), more commonly known as Squanto (/ ˈ s k w ɒ n t oʊ /), was a member of the Patuxet tribe of Wampanoags, best known for being an early liaison between the Native American population in Southern New England and the Mayflower Pilgrims who made their settlement at the site of Tisquantum's former summer ...