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	Drake University - Homepage
		Drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship.
		The Drake experience is distinguished by collaborative learning among students, faculty, and staff and by the integration of the liberal arts and sciences with professional preparation.
		Drake University • 2507 University Avenue • Des Moines, IA 50311 • 1-800-44-DRAKE • (515) 271-2011
	www.drake.edu (290 words)

	Sir Francis Drake - MSN Encarta
		In 1577 Drake was secretly commissioned by Elizabeth I, queen of England, to undertake an expedition against the Spanish colonies on the Pacific coast of the New World.
		In 1587 war with Spain was recognized as imminent, and Drake was dispatched by the queen to destroy the fleet being assembled by the Spanish in the harbor of Cádiz.
		Both Drake and Hawkins contracted dysentery in the Caribbean, and their bodies were buried at sea.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571859/Drake_Sir_Francis.html (703 words)

	::Sir Francis Drake::
		Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, on the outskirts of Dartmoor.
		Drake's father, Edmund, may have been a sailor as some historians believe but is is possible that he helped out on the family's farm.
		Drake is most associated with the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /sir_francis_drake.htm (805 words)

	SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
		Frances Drake was born in Devon, England, the son of a puritan farmer and preacher.
		Drake left his brother in charge of Port Plenty, as he continued to sail the coast of Darien, capturing Spanish vessels has he went, and all the while, making plans for his overland capture of the Gold Train, as it crossed the Isthmus.
		Drake then headed to Porto Bello, and was stricken by a tropical disease, "the bloody flux" From Porto Bello, they headed to San Juan de Nicaragua, but were encountered a storm and had to return to Porto Bello.
	www.bruce.ruiz.net /PanamaHistory/francis_drake.htm (2067 words)

	GameSpy: Drake Preview
		Drake is a mysterious killer from the ultra-secretive 99 Dragons Clan.
		At its heart, Drake is a 3D shooter in the vein of Max Payne and Gungrave.
		Drake is quite the acrobat, being able to leap from high roofs into the fray below while simultanously plugging baddies with his twin pistols.
	xbox.gamespy.com /xbox/drake/498973p1.html (557 words)

	Sir Francis Drake (1542–96) : Explorers and leaders : Maritime, sea & ships : Fact files : Learning : National ...
		Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, sometime between 1541 and 1543.
		Drake attacked such ships, and if he was successful in capturing them, took their treasure for himself and for his queen.
		During the course of the voyage, Drake discovered that Tierra del Fuego, the land seen to the south of the Magellan Strait, was not part of a southern continent as had been believed previously, but an archipelago, or group of islands.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /server/show/conWebDoc.140 (1747 words)

	European Explorers: Sir Francis Drake
		Sir Frances Drake (1545-96) was the first Englishman to sail around the world and took a leading part in defeating the Great Armada sent by Spain to invade England.
		Sir Francis Drake was born around 1540 as the son of a puritan farmer and preacher.
		Francis Drake and his crew were fascinated by the friendly Indians* of Nova Albion; the fascination was mutual, and contact was extensive.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/exdrake.htm (691 words)

	Drake, Sir Francis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Elizabeth endeavored for a time to justify Drake’s conduct to Spain, but, failing to satisfy the Spanish, she finally abandoned all pretense and openly recognized Drake’s exploits by knighting him aboard the Golden Hind.
		In 1585, Drake commanded a fleet that sacked Vigo in Spain and burned São Tiago in the Cape Verde Islands.
		Drake’s last expedition, in 1595, undertaken jointly with Hawkins, was directed against the West Indies.
	www.bartleby.com /65/dr/Drake-Si.html (689 words)

	Sir Francis Drake
		Drake was an Englishman who hoped to explore possibilities of trade and colonial settlement in the Pacific Ocean and to find the western outlet of the Northwest Passage.
		Drake became a ship's captain in 1567, and he lead several trading voyages from England to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
		Drake then turned south and repaired his ship where what is now called San Fransico and named the new area New Albion.
	library.thinkquest.org /4034/drake.html (387 words)

	Sir Francis Drake: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
		Drake led the second expedition to sail around the world in a voyage lasting from 1577 to 1580 (Magellan led the first voyage around the world).
		Drake and John Hawkins were on a slave-trading trip to the West Indies (backed by Queen Elizabeth) that ended with an attack by the Spanish fleet at San Juan de Ulua, near Veracruz, Mexico.
		Drake died of fever at sea near Panama; he was on a voyage intending to attack Spanish colonies in the West Indies.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/page/d/drake.shtml (467 words)

	News: Drake Trailer - GamersHell.com
		Drake will be published by Majesco on PC and Xbox at the end of the year.
		Drake is an action shooter of furious and brutal revenge, supernatural Hong Kong action John Woo style.
		Drake has been brought back from the dead to avenge his family "The Crow" style and brings nothing but death into our world, executed in extravagant "Crying Freeman" style.
	www.gamershell.com /news/8213.html (342 words)

	The Mariners' Museum: Newport News, Virginia
		Born in 1540, Drake was destined to become an adventurer, pirate, and expert seaman.
		Drake plundered Spanish shipping in the Caribbean and in Central America and loaded his ship with treasure to take back to Queen Elizabeth.
		In June, 1579, Drake landed off the coast of present-day California and sailed as far north as the area that would become the United States-Canadian border.
	www.mariner.org /educationalad/ageofex/drake.php (311 words)

	CNN - Style - Jamie Drake's haven for art and antiques - August 11, 1999
		Jamie Drake got that luxury when he was asked to design the inside of a media executive's Manhattan townhouse from scratch.
		Drake uses the soft colors found in the rug -- a rare 18th-century French piece -- as the basis for the other furniture and accessories.
		Drake says he tried to strike a balance between masculine and feminine in the master bedroom.
	www.cnn.com /STYLE/9908/11/drakehouse/index.html (392 words)

	Drake's - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Drake's changed hands a couple of times afterwards, and was eventually picked up by the Canadian company Culinar.
		In 1989, Drake's could be found as far away as Southern California, through a deal with a local distributor for the Von's supermarket chain.
		Expansion plans continue, and Drakes were reported to be distributed or at least experimenting in various areas of the South (such as Georgia) and the West.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drake's (1427 words)

	R.L. Drake Company History Page
		Drake continued to search for new areas to apply its engineering expertise, even as they expanded their product line with marine radios and other reception hardware.
		The demand for satellite receivers in the 1980's was overwhelming, convincing Drake to concentrate primarily on the development and manufacture of satellite communications equipment.
		Drake also builds complete CATV head-ends, equipment racks of digital and analog equipment cabled, and tested, ready to connect to a power source and a satellite signal.
	www.rldrake.com /company/history.html (911 words)

	Professor Frank D. Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Frank Drake's principal research activities are directed toward the detection of planetary systems and life, particularly intelligent life in the universe.
		It is being used to search for intelligent signals from some 1,000 of the nearest solar-type stars and from star-rich regions of the Milky Way.
		Drake works on the design of large radio telescopes for use in radio astronomy and in the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life.
	www.ucolick.org /~board/faculty/drake.html (271 words)

	Drake University - International Scholarships
		Drake University is pleased to offer scholarships and financial aid that can cover up to 50% of the cost of tuition, room, and board at Drake to incoming undergraduate international students.
		Although all qualified scholarship applicants are required to visit the Drake campus on either February 10 or 24, 2007, for interviews in order to progress in the competition, accommodations will be made for students living overseas to participate in the interview process by telephone on those same dates.
		Loans from Drake are not available to international students; however, international students may work on campus to help meet a portion of their expenses in addition to receiving merit- and/or need-based aid.
	www.choose.drake.edu /admissions/international/scholarships.asp (1240 words)

	Francis Drake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, one of two sons of Mary Mylwaye and her husband Edmund Drake (1518–1585), a Protestant farmer who later became a preacher, grandson of John Drake and Margret Cole.
		Drake was reportedly named after his godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, and throughout his cousins' lineages are direct connections to the Royalty and famous people such as Sir Richard Grenville, through Amy Grenville, and Geoffrey Chaucer, through Ursula Stafford.
		Drake was vice admiral in command of the English fleet (under Lord Howard of Effingham) when it overcame the Spanish Armada that was attempting to invade England in 1588.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Drake (2954 words)

	Pirates and Privateers - Sir Francis Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Drake and his crew are remembered as the first Englishmen to circumnavigate the globe, claiming a portion of California for Elizabeth along the way.
		Drake's exploits are the distant inspiration for the adventures of Captain Geoffrey Thorpe (Errol Flynn) in Michael Curtiz's film The Sea-Hawk, which has nothing but the title in common with the Rafael Sabatini novel of the same name.
		Francis Drake at the The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia, includes a map of Drake's voyages.
	www.legends.dm.net /pirates/drake.html (724 words)

	IGN: Drake Preview
		Initially Drake will be just a regular old badass kung-fu man but early on you'll see how he becomes a sort of undead, gothic warrior and gains new supernatural powers you can use to defeat evil.
		You'll move Drake using the left analog stick and independently fire the weapons in each of his hands using the left and right triggers.
		As Drake powers up with new abilities, he'll be able target two enemies at once and shoot both at the same time with the different guns he'll have in his left and right hands.
	xbox.ign.com /articles/430/430110p1.html (841 words)

	Britannia Biographies: Sir Francis Drake
		Francis Drake was probably born in Devon around 1540 and, though they denied it, was almost certainly distant kin to the gentle family of Drakes of that county.
		In the defeat of that fleet, when it came at last, Drake's share was the primary one and he was constantly urging the government to greater and greater exertions by sea.
		Drake was, essentially, the greatest of all the Elizabethan sailors: a man ready for any adventure, beloved and followed by his men, yet absolute master on his own deck.
	www.britannia.com /bios/gents/fdrake.html (772 words)

	Drake - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Drake, Sir Francis (1540?-96), English navigator and explorer, born near Tavistock.
		Drake, Edwin (1819-1880), American petroleum engineer, credited with drilling the first productive oil well in the United States.
		Drake University, private, coeducational institution in Des Moines, Iowa.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Drake (107 words)

	IGN: Drake Preview
		You play Drake, a mysterious and heroic character bent on revenge after every member of his clan, The 99 Dragons, was murdered.
		Drake also has "Freeze Time" and "Slow Time" available on the same button that will deliver that beloved "Bullet Time" experience that made Max Payne and Enter the Matrix such big hits.
		Drake will have plenty of competition on this fall with new sequels like Max Payne 2 and throwback heavyweights like Prince of Persia on the block.
	pc.ign.com /articles/430/430512p1.html (882 words)

	Frank Drake - Biography
		Frank Drake was born in Chicago on May 28, 1930 to Richard and Winifred Drake.
		In 1961 Drake and J. Peter Pearman, an officer on the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences, organized the first SETI conference.
		In 1963 Drake took a short-lived position at the Jet Propulsion Lab and later that year he took a position at Cornell's Center for Radiophysics and Space Research.
	www.activemind.com /Mysterious/Topics/SETI/biography_drake.html (610 words)

	Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Considerably faster and easier to use than most traditional forms of assessment, Drake TeamWorks and Triage were designed to integrate multiple assessments and functions so the user could simply and flexible enter and access information.
		Drake TeamWorks and Triage electronically produces multiple reports within seconds of the assessments being completed, and removes any subjectivity involved in the psychologist's interpretation.
		Accordingly, Drake TeamWorks and Triage avoid predicting the behavior on the basis of a single assessment.
	www.drakeintl.com /products/teamworks.asp (634 words)

	Drake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855-1904), a Spanish botanist
		Captain Drake, a captain of the rebel army in W.I.T.C.H., voiced by Michael Bell
		Drake equation, a speculative formula for the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which we might be able to communicate
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drake (356 words)

	Francis Drake The Voyage
		Before leaving the Atlantic, Drake lightened the expedition by disposing of two unfit ships and one English gentleman, who was tried and executed for mutiny.
		Drake's crew in the Pacific was of unknown number, with estimates ranging from around sixty to one hundred men.
		As she left the sight of all Spanish observers, and of the captured Portuguese pilot who had been set ashore, she was accompanied by a small captured ship, crewed by Drake's men, which was kept for an unknown time.
	www.mcn.org /2/oseeler/voy.htm (904 words)

	Bruce Drake Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bruce Drake gave the best years of his life to basketball, and they were brilliant years.
		Drake's teams employed clever passing and a ball-control "weaving" offense known as the "Drake Shuffle." An outstanding college athlete, Drake was named to the Helms Foundation All-America team, leading the Sooners to two Big Six titles.
		Drake returned to his alma mater and coached the freshman team for 10 years before being named head coach in 1938.
	www.hoophall.com /halloffamers/Drake.htm (518 words)

	Drake (Xbox)
		As Drake, a member of the 99 Dragons, you have been mysteriously brought back from the dead.
		As Drake, a member of the 99 Dragons, you have been mysteriously brought back from the dead to right these wrongs.
		Drake combines astonishing cartoon-like visuals with intense action and a deep storyline, creating and experience much like starring in an interactive animated series.
	games.teamxbox.com /xbox/698/Drake (165 words)

	Become.com - Shop results for drake
		Drake built a heavy-duty plastic ring into the mouth of this deke bag to make loading and unloading as easy as possible.
		The Drake Jade is a forgiving womens binding that is built to deliver simplicity, durability and just the right amount of performance when going from beginner to advanced, while assaulting the entire mountain.
		Drake clothing is built for those who are already on the marsh before the sun comes up, when the skim ice is still forming and there's frost on the decoys.
	www.become.com /shop?q=drake (621 words)

	Chicago Hotels: The Drake Hotel, A Luxury Chicago, Illinois Hotel, Official Site.
		Chicago Hotels: The Drake Hotel, A Luxury Chicago, Illinois Hotel, Official Site.
		The pride of Chicago, The Drake Hotel has been
		The Drake Hotel Home Accommodations Meetings & Events Offers Dining & Entertainment
	www.thedrakehotel.com (100 words)

	R.L. Drake Home Page
		Drake has been a manufacturer of electronic communications equipment since 1943.
		Today, Drake produces products and solutions for cable television systems, ADA assistive listening, classroom sound field reinforcement, video signal distribution, and digital television reception.
		Drake and Dracom brand products are utilized and available worldwide.
	www.rldrake.com (275 words)

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