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23 hours ago · The Seventeenth Century. In 1607, Samuel de Champlain, the great French explorer and colonizer, sailed up the Penobscot River and wrote of the river’s beauty and shoreline. Four years later Father Pierre Biard, a French Jesuit priest, met here with a group of Indians.
23 hours ago · The Viking Age (about 800–1050 CE) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia but also to any place significantly settled by ...
23 hours ago · August 22, 2024 1:54 p.m. The medieval archway was buried beneath layers of plaster and brick. Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk. Experts think that a “weird shape” in the wall ...
23 hours ago · Aleksander Lisowski, commander of 17th-century Lisowczycy; Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Prince, Field Crown Hetman (1657–1664), victor at the Battle of Chudniv (Cudnów) (1660) Walenty Łukawski, captain in the Bar Confederation, abductor of King Stanisław August Poniatowski
23 hours ago · The Awakening Tour with Casting Crowns, We The Kingdom, Mac Powell, and more. Liacouras Center · Philadelphia, PA. From $11. Find tickets from 28 dollars to The Awakening Tour with Casting Crowns, We The Kingdom, Mac Powell, and more on Saturday October 12 at 7:00 pm at Covelli Centre in Youngstown, OH. Oct 12.
23 hours ago · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, farmer, and first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War ...
23 hours ago · A 19th-century jail cell room at a Pennsylvania museum. A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer is a facility where people are imprisoned against their will and denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.
