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	Nunavut - MSN Encarta
		English explorer John Davis followed in Frobisher’s footsteps in the 1580s, although the ice around Baffin Island prevented him from exploring west of the island.
		In 1610 English navigator Henry Hudson discovered Hudson Strait (between Québec and Baffin Island), and during the 17th century a number of explorers unsuccessfully searched the strait and Hudson Bay for possible passages through the Arctic.
		Sir John Ross explored the area along the north coast of Baffin Island during the early 1830s, discovering Boothia Peninsula, the Gulf of Boothia, and King William Island.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554898_8/Nunavut.html (1283 words)

	John Davis - The New Continent - 16th Century - Pathfinders and Passageways
		John Davis had the good luck to have very special childhood neighbours in his home and birthplace of Sandridge, Devonshire: Humphrey and Adrien Gilbert, as well as their half-brother, Walter Raleigh.
		Davis left Dartmouth on June 7, 1585 with two ships, and followed the same route as Frobisher, passing south of Greenland, where he met some of the Inuit of that country.
		John Davis stands out as one of the excellent early English navigators, attested to in part by his invention of the "Davis quadrant" and his book, "The Seaman's Secrets." His findings played an important role in the continuing exploration of the Canadian Arctic.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /explorers/h24-1350-e.html (898 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Bruce, William Speirs 1867-1921, Scottish explorer and authority on the polar regions.
		Charcot, Jean Baptiste 1867-1936, French neurologist and explorer in the antarctic region; son of Jean Martin Charcot.
		Dampier, William 1651-1715, English explorer, buccaneer, hydrographer, and naturalist.
	www.encyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /category/People/History/explbio.html (4769 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		DAVIS (Davys), JOHN, navigator and explorer, discoverer of Davis Strait and the Falkland Islands, compiler of first Sailing Directions for the East Indies; b.
		Nothing is known of his early life, but his writings and his later friendships with the outstanding English mathematicians and cartographers of his day suggest he had at least a grammer school education, and certainly, by 1579 he was already highly regarded as a seaman and navigator.
		English energies were now absorbed in the struggle with Spain and, with the death of Walsingham in 1590, “the voyage was friendless.” Davis, however, convinced that the discovery of this northwest passage would contribute to the growth of England’s trade and thus to her national greatness, endeavoured to continue the search.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34283 (1242 words)

	John Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Francis Davis (1795–1890), governor of Hong Kong
		John Davis (Medal of Honor, 1881) (born 1854), U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
		Sir John Davis (mathematician) (1562-1625), an English mathematician and conspirator
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Davis (271 words)

	John Davis
		John Davis, or Davys, one of the chief English navigators and explorers under Queen Elizabeth I, especially in Polar regions, was born at Sandridge near Dartmouth about 1550.
		In 1596-97 Davis seems to have sailed with Sir Walter Raleigh (as master of Raleigh's own ship) to Cadiz and the Azores; and in 1598-1600 he accompanied a Dutch expedition to the East Indies as pilot, sailing from Flushing, returning to Middleburg, and narrowly escaping destruction from treachery at Achin in Sumatra.
		A Traverse Book made by John Davis in 1587, an Account of his Second Voyage in 1586, and a Report of Master John Davis of his three voyages made for the Discovery of the North West Passage were printed in Richard Hakluyt's collection.
	www.nndb.com /people/101/000096810 (572 words)

	National Park Service - Explorers and Settlers (Historical Background) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The English colonies lacked the gold and silver of New Spain and the wealth in furs of New France.
		John Cabot, the English explorer, a conjectural portrait.
		But John Cabot had given England a claim to the northern shores of the New World, and in the course of time the "sea dogs" and other English mariners were to breathe new life into it.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/explorers/intro22.htm (1459 words)

	Northwest Passage. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Sir Martin Frobisher, the English explorer, was the first European to explore (1576–78) the eastern approaches of the passage.
		John Davis also explored (1585–87) this area, and in 1610 Henry Hudson sailed north and visited Hudson Bay while seeking a short route to Asia.
		The desire to extend human knowledge was the chief motive in arctic exploration after the expeditions of British explorers John Ross and David Buchan were sent out in 1818.
	www.bartleby.com /65/nw/NWPass.html (704 words)

	John Davis Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		John Davis, novelist, poet, translator, and teacher, although not an American by birth or naturalization, owes much of his literary recognition to the United States.
		Born in Salisbury, England, to Ann Gast Davis and James Davis, a wool draper, John Davis apparently enjoyed a fairly pleasant childhood.
		Despite the fact that Davis baldly plagiarized large sections from Jeremy Belknap's American Biography (1796, 1798) for his tale, he is credited with fostering a romantic legend that was to become one of the most popular themes in nineteenth-century American literature.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-davis-dlb (1475 words)

	John Davis Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		John Davis, a Devonshire man, was friendly with the Gilbert and Raleigh families and at times sailed with members of both.
		Davis nevertheless acquired backing in London and in 1587 went again with three ships, though the pinnace Ellen, in which he sailed, made the only explorations.
		Davis was married to Faith Fulford in 1582, but Faith proved faithless and with her paramour, a counterfeiter, brought false and unavailing charges against her accomplished husband, whom she had borne several sons.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-davis (513 words)

	John Davis
		Davis led his third, and final, northwest expedition in 1587.
		This time he did in fact reach the end of the Cumberland Sound, but was dismayed that all he had done was prove that it did not actually lead to Asia, as he had hoped.
		Davis came to an abrupt end when he was killed by pirates near Singapore in 1605.
	www.thepirateking.com /bios/davis_john.htm (254 words)

	English in Hawai'i. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Notable were John Young and Isaac Davis, who married Hawaiian chiefesses, became advisors to the king, and wielded great influence in the early commercial and economic growth of the islands.
		John Wilkinson was one of the first to grow sugar cane and coffee.
		Princess Ka'iulani, heiress to the throne at the time of the overthrow of the monarchy, was sent to England for an education.
	www.hawaiiguide.com /english.htm (527 words)

	Decades History Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John Cotton, English-born Puritan clergyman who wrote “The Way of the Church of Christ in New England,”; was born.
		English shipping in Spanish ports was then confiscated as a virtual declaration of war by Spain.
		John White, English artist and surveyor, was part of the expedition.
	www.decades.com /ByDecade/1580-1588/3.htm (959 words)

	1605 Encyclopedia Article @ Karr.net (Karr Network) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Records show 36 barrels (1800 weight each, total 1 metric tonne) of gunpowder were found and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill King James I of England and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day.
		John Gauden, English bishop and writer (died 1662)
		Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer and parliamentarian (died 1675)
	www.karr.net.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/1605 (800 words)

	John Davis (English explorer) at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John Davis (1550?—1605) was one of the chief English navigators and explorers under Elizabeth I, especially in Polar regions.
		From a boy he was a sailor, and early made several voyages with Adrian Gilbert; both the Gilbert and Raleigh families were Devonians of his own neighbourhood, and through life he seems to have profited by their friendship.
		In 1596-1597 Davis seems to have sailed with Raleigh (as master of Sir Walter's own ship) to CÃ¡diz and the Azores; and in 1598-1600 he accompanied a Dutch expedition to the East Indies as pilot, sailing from Flushing, returning to Middleburg, and narrowly escaping destruction from treachery at Achin in Sumatra.
	experts.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /e/j/jo/John_Davis_(English_explorer).htm (630 words)

	Contexts -- Geography -- Northern Passage
		Explorers turned their attention to the north, in the hopes of finding a means of sailing from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
		Sir John Franklin set out on an expedition that ended in the loss of the entire expedition of 129 men.
		Even after the Passage was discovered, it took another half century for a single ship to sail through it: the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen made the passage between 1903 and 1906.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Contexts/passage.html (1012 words)

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		Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and Separatist (died 1593)
		Ralph Sherwin, English Roman Catholic martyr and saint (died 1581)
		John of God, Spanish friar and saint (born 1495)
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=1550 (314 words)

	Canadian Explorer Roses
		This British arctic explorer, in expeditions in 1615-16, was sent to find the supposed Northwest Passage across the New World for seafarers to more quickly reach the spice market of the orient.
		This explorer was a famous fur trader, and geographer, in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
		Martin Frobisher was another English explorer looking for the Northwest Passage, only in the late 1500's.
	pss.uvm.edu /ppp/articles/explorer.html (613 words)

	Who invented football?
		The first inter-continental soccer match apparently took place in Greenland in 1586 between an English explorer John Davis and his crew and the inhabitants of Godthab.
		While the English created the world's first football association in London in 1863, Scotland is presented as a cradle of modern soccer and the museum has borrowed several pieces from the Scottish football museum in Glasgow.
		Brewer John Henry Davies rescued a club called Newton Heath in 1902 and renamed it Manchester United, while Tottenham Hotspur's stadium, White Hart Lane, is named after the pub that stood next to the property.
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	Northwest Passage (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the first half of the 19th century, parts of the Northwest Passage were explored separately by a number of different expeditions, including voyages by John Ross, William Edward Parry, James Clark Ross; and overland expeditions led by John Franklin, George Back, Peter Warren Dease, and Thomas Simpson.
		In 1845 a well-equipped two-ship expedition led by Sir John Franklin attempted to force a Passage through the Arctic ice from Baffin Bay to the Beaufort Sea.
		The Northwest Passage was not conquered by sea until 1906, When the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who had sailed just in time to escape creditors seeking to stop the expedition, completed a three-year voyage in the converted 47-ton herring boat Gjøa.
	northwest-passage.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (952 words)

	Timeline Great Britain 1751-1710
		He was an English military, political and religious leader, and dictator as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth from 1653-1658.
		The English fleet sailed in three segments, the 3rd of which was commanded by a Rear Admiral.
		Pepys was an informal and spontaneous English diarist.
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	Bounding Main -- Sea Shanties and Songs of the Sea -- Northwest Passage
		The quest by European explorers to find an economical means to reach ports in the Far East (for the British, principally China and India) is legendary.
		Many Elizabethan sailors, Baffin, Frobisher and Davis among them, made their names in their failed quests for the Northwest Passage.
		In 1805 he crossed the Rocky Mountains, and in 1806, with explorer John Stuart, reached the Fraser River and Stuart Lake.
	www.boundingmain.com /lyrics/nw_passage.htm (746 words)

	Explorers
		Many of these maps reflect the European Age of Discoveries, dating from the late 15th century to the 17th century when Europeans were concerned primarily with determining the outline of the continents as they explored and mapped the coastal areas and the major waterways.
		Also included are 18th and 19th century maps documenting the exploration and mapping of the interior parts of the continents, reflecting the work of Lewis and Clark and subsequent government explorers and surveyors.
		Primary sources includes the texts the explorers themselves wrote on their voyages.
	www.kidinfo.com /American_History/Explorers.html (862 words)

	Explorers
		Explorers included: Martin Frobisher, John Davis, Henry Hudson, Thomas Button, William Baffin and Robert Bylot, Luke Foxe and Thomas James, Christopher Middleton, Edward Parry, John Ross, John Franklin, Peter Warren, Dease and Thomas Simpson, Charles Francis Hall, Roald Amundsen
		A little known explorer of the Northwest Passage, and Copper mines for the Hudson Bay Company.
		A look into the lives of the explorers and businessmen central to the Hudson's Bay Company.
	www.edselect.com /explorers.htm (387 words)

	John Davis (English explorer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For other persons named John Davis, see John Davis (disambiguation).
		From a boy he was a sailor, and early went on voyages with Adrian Gilbert; both the Gilbert and Raleigh families were Devonians of his own neighbourhood, and through life he seems to have profited by their friendship.
		He tried again in 1586 and 1587; in the last voyage he never ever ever ever ever ever pushed through the straits still named after him into Baffin Bay, coasting west Greenland to 73° N., almost to Upernavik, and thence making a last effort to find a passage westward along the north of America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Davis_(English_explorer) (670 words)

	World Cup 2006 \| Reuters.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Eskimos typically like to play on ice pitches in temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit) and traditionally welcome guests by challenging them to a match to help warm up together.
		One of the most striking displays shows the origins of the Florentine "calcio storico", a game that has similarities with modern rugby that has been played since the 16th century.
		The exhibition recounts how brewers and pub landlords have played their part in the development of football.
	worldcup.reuters.com /features/news/usnL22432842.html (846 words)

	Grade 6 Social Studies (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		(England) - includes John and Sebastian Cabot, Christopher Columbus, Captain Cook, Francis Drake, Early explorers, The first to sail around the world, Sir John Franklin, Health in the 17th Century, Henry VIII and his navy, Life at sea in the age of sail, and more.
		This is a collection of data about, and a chronology of the life and voyages of English explorer, mariner and adventurer, Henry Hudson, as well as some additional notes on his times, contemporaries and his crew.
		John Davis, Henry Hudson, Thomas Button, William Baffin and Robert Bylot, Luke Foxe and Thomas James, Christopher Middleton, Edward Parry, John Ross, John Franklin, Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson, 1850 Expeditions - The Search for Franklin, Charles Francis Hall, Roald Amundsen
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