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20 hours ago · The establishment of the Roanoke Colony (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in America. The colony was founded in 1585, but it was visited by a ship in 1590 and the crew found that the colonists had disappeared under unknown circumstances.
- Lost Colony (Disambiguation)
The Lost Colony or Roanoke Colony was the first English...
- Roanoke Island
Roanoke Island (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k /) is an island in Dare...
- List of Colonists at Roanoke
However, Quinn's count of 85 European men may be in error,...
- Hatteras
John Lawson believed that they may have been the Croatans....
- Attacked Jamestown
The Indian massacre of 1622 took place in the English colony...
- The Lost Colony
The Lost Colony is an historical outdoor drama, written by...
- Starving Time
The Starving Time at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia was...
- Wingina
Wingina (c. 16th century – 1 June 1586), also known as...
- Wanchese
Wanchese (fl. 1584 – 1587) was the last known ruler of the...
- Pamlico Sound
Pamlico Sound with the southern Outer Banks.Orbital photo...
- Lost Colony (Disambiguation)
20 hours ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of ...
- 9 April 1137 – 1 April 1204
- Aénor de Châtellerault
20 hours ago · May 10 is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) ... 2022 – Queen Elizabeth II misses the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 59 years.
20 hours ago · The winner, "Tree City", was announced in May 2000. Approximately 8,000 hectares (20,000 acres), or 12.5 percent of Toronto's land base, is maintained parkland. Morningside Park is the largest park managed by the city, which is 241.46 hectares (596.7 acres) in size.
- Canada
- 416, 647, 437
- 76.5 m (251.0 ft)
- March 6, 1834; 189 years ago (as City of Toronto)
20 hours ago · Elizabeth of York Tudor. When Henry VII, of England seized the throne there were eighteen Plantagenet descendants who might today be thought to have a stronger hereditary claim, and by 1510 this number had been increased further by the birth of sixteen Yorkist children. Henry mitigated this situation with his marriage to Elizabeth of York. She ...
- 12th century
- Geoffrey V of Anjou
20 hours ago · Samuel Houston was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia on March 2, 1793, to Samuel Houston and Elizabeth Paxton. Both of Houston's parents were descended from Scottish and Irish immigrants who had settled in Colonial America in the 1730s, [2] including his great-grandfather John Houston . [3]
20 hours ago · One may simply count the Biblical allusions as Richmond Noble has done; one may go further and study the parallels between Shakespeare's story and the Old Testament stories of Saul and Jezebel as Miss Jane H. Jack has done; or one may examine with W. C. Curry the progressive degeneration of Macbeth from the point of view of medieval theology.
