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New Netherland, New York
1609 : Henry Hudson, in command of the East India Company ship Halve Maen, explores from Delaware Bay to the upper Hudson as far as present-day Albany.
1614 : The na... |
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Johann Jakob Froberger
Johann Jakob Froberger was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. He was among the most famous composers of the era and influenced practically every... |
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Invention of Napier's Bones
Napier's bones are an abacus invented by John Napier for calculation of products and quotients of numbers. Also called Rabdologia. Napier published his invention of t... |
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The Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War, series of European conflicts lasting from 1618 to 1648, involving most of the countries of western Europe, and fought mainly in Germany. At first the s... |
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Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor
Aurangzeb was the ruler of the Mughal Empire in India (1658-1707) and is commonly considered the last of the great Mughal emperors as well one of the most controversial.... |
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Jan van Riebeeck, Founder Cape Town
6 April 1652: First commander at the Cape. Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck, was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands on 21 April 1619. He was an administrator for the Dut... |
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Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims
The story of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag begins before the Thanksgiving feast. Relive the Pilgrims' first year in America, and learn how the Wampanoag
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American Literature and Events
A Brief Timeline. Year-by-year and decade-by-decade information on American literature and history... |
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Thanksgiving, 1st Harvest of the Pelgrims
The Thanksgiving holiday celebrated the fourth Thursday in November in the United States.
According to historical sources, the Pilgrims never held an autumnal Thanksg... |
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Molière, Master of Comic Satire
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière, was a French theatre writer, director, stage manager, actor, and all-around man of theatre, one of the masters of comic s... |
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The Complete Works: William Shakespeare
Quite simply the greatest writer of all time, Shakespeare belongs on every bookshelf. You might be surprised by some of the stories you never knew.This complete and unabr... |
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Palace of Versailles
Back in 1623, Louis XIII - father of Louis XIV - built a 'hunting lodge, a little gentleman's chateau' of brick, stone, and slate at Versailles. The king liked it so much... |
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Blaise Pascal, Inventing a Calculator
Blaise Pascal, the French scientist was one of the most reputed mathematician and physicist of his time. He is credited with inventing an early calculator, amazingly adva... |
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Jan De Witt, Dutch Politician
Jan De Witt and his brother Cornelius were murdered by an angry mob for their opposition to William of Orange.
Like his father, Jacob de Witt, burgomaster of Dort, he... |
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Jan Steen, Dutch Painter
Dutch genre painter Jan Steen was born in Leiden into the family of a brewer. He enrolled briefly at the university in 1646, but very soon turned to painting. Steen proba... |
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