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  Georgia (U.S. state) - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Massive British settlement began in the early 1730s with James Oglethorpe, an Englishman in the British parliament, who promoted the idea that the area be used to settle people in a debtors' prison.
On February 12, 1733, the first settlers landed in the HMS Anne at what was to become the city of Savannah.
This day is now known as Georgia Day, which is not a public holiday, but is mainly observed in schools and by some local civic groups.
open-encyclopedia.com /Georgia_(U.S._state)   (1410 words)

  
 HMS Conway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gerald was educated at Eton and the training school HMS Conway, Iain Duncan Smith's alma mater.
He achieved distinction in piloting HMS Chalanger during the bombardment of Duala and retired in 1930.
He received the fateful message from the lookouts that there was an iceberg ahead - he had earlier told them to be on special lookout for them.
www.hmsconway.org /famous_conways.html   (6749 words)

  
 Loss of HMS Glorious
ON THE AFTERNOON of Saturday the eighth of June, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent were intercepted in the Norwegian Sea by the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.
None of the ships were fitted with radar and the carrier had no lookout in her crow's nest.
3 Survivors taking passage in HMS Veteran reported that the German ships were disposed on on each quarter with the largest ship to starboard apparently a Hipper class cruiser "…with a cut-away bow and clinker screen." Both Gneisenau and Hipper had clipper bows and funnel cowls at the time.
www.warship.org /no11994.htm   (4932 words)

  
 Pitcairn Islands Study Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He could not feel secure, however, until after the visit in 1814 of HMS Briton and HMS Tagus whose captains, Staines and Pipon, assured him that he would not be taken to England for trial.
Burkett was in Christian’s watch and on the morning of the mutiny he was a lookout on the forepeak.
Burkett, together with Millwad and Ellison, was hanged on HMS Brunswick at Spithead on Octoer 29, 1792.
library.puc.edu /pitcairn/bounty/crew.shtml   (3633 words)

  
 Pirate Strongholds & Hideouts
With the battle raging, Myngs was shot through the throat but refused to leave the deck, remaining upright and compressing the wound with his fingers until a second bullet passed through his throat and lodged in his shoulder.
Considering how much interest the townspeople had in the success of the raids, its small wonder that there was dancing in the streets whenever pirate vessels returned to port after a successful voyage.
As soon as a lookout at Fort Charles spotted a returning vessel, it would fire a cannon as a signal to the townsfolk that the fun was about to start.
www.piratesinfo.com /detail/detail.php?article_id=72   (7723 words)

  
 TulipGirl: May 2004 Archives
Some of the homeschooling moms (HMs) are kind of witch-y, with the uncut hair and the long skirts because pants on females are unholy, but the description that really applies to this coven is "All of Them Zealots."
They're not only terrorist-like in their conviction that their calling is divinely ordained, homeschoolers also often have a broad martyr streak.
The Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College, in partnership with Food for the Hungry International and World Relief, is offering training in Bangkok, Thailand on May 24 - June 2, 2004 and at Lookout Mountain, GA USA from August 2 - 11, 2004.
www.tulipgirl.com /mt/archives/2004_05.html   (3763 words)

  
 CCS - Other Internet Resources about Captain Cook
HM Bark Endeavour Foundation, which built and runs the replica
Facsimile of the Journal of HMS Resolution 1772-75 by James Cook
HMS Discovery and HMS Resolution - a painting by Frank Wright
www.captaincooksociety.com /ccsu12.htm   (3111 words)

  
 June 10 Events in History
June 10, 1908 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of New York, opens
June 10, 1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Maine
June 10, 1834 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean
www.brainyhistory.com /days/june_10.html   (2343 words)

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