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	We are starved
		Next only to the arrival of the English in 1607 and their departure in 1781, the months of the winter of 1609–10, known as the Starving Time, rank atop the memorable events of Virginia's history.
		The wooden cross honors the Starving Time dead, scores of whom may be buried on the fenced ridge behind it.
		The hard winter of the Starving Time reduced a population of about five hundred to barely sixty, "the reste beinge either sterved throwe famin or cut of by the Salvages," Gabriel Archer among them.
	www.cw.org /Foundation/journal/Winter07/starving.cfm (2397 words)

	The Starving Time
		They consumed the remaining stores, and the colony suffered extreme disease and famine during the winter.
		By March 1610, the colony was reduced from 500 to 60 people.
		Yet had wee beene even in Paradice it selfe with these Governours, it would not have beene much better withe us; yet there was amongst us, who had they had the government as Captaine Smith appointed, but that they could not maintaine it, would surely have kept us from those extremities of miseries.
	www.learner.org /channel/workshops/primarysources/virginia/docs/starve.html (272 words)

	Such a dish as powdered wife I never heard of
		The earliest relations of Virginia made no bones about it: In the winter of 1609–10, the Starving Time, the English were reduced to consuming, as colony President George Percy put it, what they "could come by." And not for the last time.
		Of the three weak women before mentioned, one had the envied happiness to die about this time; and it was my advice to the survivors, who were following her apace, to endeavor their own preservation by converting her dead carcass into food, as they did to good effect.
		There are, then, a half-dozen written seventeenth-century reports of Starving Time cannibalism, each of which corroborates another in one or more details.
	www.history.org /Foundation/journal/Winter07/jamestownSide.cfm (1184 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In modern times, Jamestown Settlement is also a promotional name used by the Commonwealth of Virginia's portion of the historical attractions at Jamestown.
		Jamestown may have been ultimately abandoned, were it not for the timely arrival, on June 10, 1610, of a supply mission from London headed by a new governor, Lord De La Warr, who brought much-needed supplies and additional settlers.
		When the statehouse burned again in 1698, this time accidentally, the legislature again temporarily relocated to Middle Plantation, and was able to meet in the new facilities of the College of William and Mary which had been established there after receiving a royal charter in 1693.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Jamestown_settlement (1935 words)

	Virginia. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Gates arrived in 1610 to find that only a handful of settlers had survived the terrible winter (the “starving time”) of 1609–1610.
		Other leaders such as Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, and Edmund Randolph at various times opposed the document, but the state ratified it (June 26, 1788) with Tidewater and W Va. support, and another Virginian, Chief Justice John Marshall, later gave it much of its strength.
		times of postwar decades also ended the plantation system in Va. and brought some increase in farm tenancy, but the economy benefited from diversification as fruit farming and the cigarette industry became important.
	www.bartleby.com /69/4/V03104.html (3405 words)

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		1610, a new governor, Lord de la Warr, arrived and forced the remaining 90 settlers to stay.
		At about the same time, Bacon was actually elected to the House of Burgesses and attended the June 1676 assembly, where he was captured, apologized, and pardoned by Berkeley.
		Colonial National Historical Park obtained the remaining 1500 acre (6 km²) island and partnered with the APVA to preserve the area and present it to visitors in an educational manner.
	www.en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Starving_Time_of_1610 (1867 words)

	Starving Winter of 1609/1610: The Women of Jamestown
		Starving Winter of 1609/1610 in Jamestown, Virginia: Women and others ate dogs, horses, rats, mice, and snakes to survive.
		They arrived just in time to experience what came to be called The Starving Time during the winter of 1609-1610.
		Anne and her husband, during that starving winter were among the women, men, and children who had to resort to eating dogs, horses, rats and mice, as well as snakes.
	americanhistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/morejamestownwomen (605 words)

	Long-Range Economic Forecast - StarIQ.com
		The trick is to isolate planetary cycles that coincide with times of economic adversity.
		It was at this time that I came to the realization that every time Saturn anchors a grand cross to the US Sun-Saturn square, America suffers a Great Depression.
		The last time Pluto moved through mid-Capricorn coincided with the years of social upheaval in the 13 original colonies that led to the American Revolution of 1776, and the birth of the United States as a separate nation.
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	World Travelling
		During that time the island was frequented by pirates who used the island to hide from those who pursued them.
		The lighthouse was of brick and wood, standing 90 feet tall; it was the highest structure in America at that time.
		In 1773 a third lighthouse was constructed which was also destroyed, this time in 1862 by Confederate troops from nearby Fort Pulaski.
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	The Brownstone Journal
		The fort and settlement itself were thought to have been lost to time and coastal erosion, and the documentary evidence that survived was not substantiated by misconstrued archaeological remains excavated in the 1930s and 1950s.
		Portions of the fort repeatedly suffered damage from fire and hasty or poor construction, and were subsequently rebuilt as the settlement expanded with each new arrival of colonists, including women and children, from England.
		Tremulous relations with local Native Americans, the Powhatan, stabilized for a time, due in part to the interaction of Chief Powhatan's young daughter, Pocahontas, with adventurer John Smith, and her eventual marriage to tobacco pioneer John Rolfe in 1613 (Cotter 8).
	www.bu.edu /brownstone/issues/12/horna.html (4746 words)

	We are starved
		Next only to the arrival of the English in 1607 and their departure in 1781, the months of the winter of 1609–10, known as the Starving Time, rank atop the memorable events of Virginia's history.
		The wooden cross honors the Starving Time dead, scores of whom may be buried on the fenced ridge behind it.
		The hard winter of the Starving Time reduced a population of about five hundred to barely sixty, "the reste beinge either sterved throwe famin or cut of by the Salvages," Gabriel Archer among them.
	www.history.org /Foundation/journal/Winter07/starving.cfm (2397 words)

	Brad Cox, Ph.D.
		Rolfe brought Rebecca with him, where her exotic beauty and regal bearing made her a popular rage, and she was presented to the King and Queen at court as a princess.
		At the same time, the spectacle of a "savage" princess married to a tobacco farmer may have given rise to exceptionally cutting Elizabethan humor.
		Raleigh was on difficult terms with James; a favorite of Elizabeth I, he had tried 3 times in the 1580s to establish a permanent English settlement in Virginia (the last had been the especially ill-fated "Lost Colony" on Roanoke Island), and had named the state itself for the Virgin Queen.
	www.virtualschool.edu /mon/SocialConstruction/Jamestown.html (4123 words)

	NIAHD Journals
		The Starving Time, which took place in the winter of 1609-1610, was the most difficult period in the history of the Jamestown settlement, yet hunger had been a problem for the colony since its conception.
		Even if the numbers of those starving to death are not as drastic as believed, several facts indicate a severe time of malnutrition and starvation.
		The “bad water” surrounding the settlement area is almost as infamous as the Starving Time.
	www.wm.edu /niahd/journals/?browse=entry&id=1305 (1388 words)

	DRAWING THE COLOR LINE, by Howard Zinn
		Among them were survivors from the winter of 1609-1610, the "starving time," when, crazed for want of food, they roamed the woods for nuts and berries, dug up graves to eat the corpses, and died in batches until five hundred colonists were reduced to sixty.
		In the year 1610, a Catholic priest in the Americas named Father Sandoval wrote back to a church functionary in Europe to ask if the capture, transport, and enslavement of African fls was legal by church doctrine.
		From time to time, whites were involved in the slave resistance.
	www.worldfreeinternet.net /archive/arc9.htm (5743 words)

	A Brief History of Jamestown, Virginia
		John Rolfe, Anno Domini 1612, partly for the love he hath a long time borne unto it, and partly to raise commodity to the adventurers...
		Raleigh was on difficult terms with James; a favorite of Elizabeth I, he had tried 3 times in the 1580s to establish a permanent English settlement in Virginia (the last had been the especially ill-fated "Lost Colony" on Roanoke Island), and had named the state itself for the Virgin Queen.
		Raleigh must have followed the Jamestown developments avidly from his cell, and even wrote a letter to Queen Anne in 1610, begging to be allowed to lend his services in person to the colony.
	www.tobacco.org /History/Jamestown.html (5739 words)

	gljfflec. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The winter of 1609-1610 became known as the "Starving Time." The Powhatans laid siege to Jamestown which meant that armed Indians wouldn't let anyone in or out of the fort.
		By May of 1610 when two English ships tied up at Jamestown's docks, only 60 settlers were alive, compared to 500 settlers in October of 1609.
		After nearly starving to death during the winter of 1609-1610, when the Powhatans laid siege to James Fort, the colonists were forced to work hard and feed themselves to survive.
	ab.mec.edu /jamestown/gljfflec.html (523 words)

	The Starving Time
		The years 1609-10 are known as the "Starving Time." Food was in such short supply that graves were robbed and corpses eaten.
		This incident is based on an account given by a settler George Percy in his brief history: A True Relation of the proceedings and The Starving Time.
		Memorabilia related to The Starving Time is at auction on eBay.
	home.u-s-history.com /pages/h533.html (486 words)

	Newport News 2005 population 195,347! - UrbanPlanet.org
		In modern times, it is one of Virginia's larger cities.
		One popular explanation holds that when the first Jamestown colonists left to return to England after the Starving Time of 1610, they encountered Captain Christopher Newport's ship in the James River off Mulberry Island, and learned that reinforcements of men and supplies had arrived, and that the colonists need not abandon Jamestown.
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	WebRoots Library U.S. History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Here it was for the first time that the stroke of the axe of the English laid prostrate the standing giants of the forests of the new world, and thereby awakened nature from its slumbers and sounded new and alarming echoes throughout the lands christened "Virginia" by a Virgin Queen of the Old World.
		They had solemnities in times of great distress of sickness or want of food, fear of enemies, times of triumph, and gathering of their harvests.
		At the time Governor White reached England for assistance "the nation was in great commotion and apprehension of the Spanish Invasion and Invincible Armada." He succeeded in obtaining two small barks, but they were attacked at sea by the Spaniards and compelled to return to England.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/liov-va1.html (11271 words)

	Nation & World \| Jamestown's "starving time" reveals unsavory tales of cannibalism \| Seattle Times Newspaper
		Percy reported he had the unnamed killer hanged by his thumbs to extract a confession, then had him executed for the "crewell and unhumane" act.
		By March 1610, more than half — by some accounts, 80 percent — of the settlers had died.
		Whether you wear it as a sling or a necktie, a scarf is a fine fall ally.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2003700900_jamesstarve10.html (357 words)

	Can Ten-Year-Olds Learn to Investigate History As Historians Do? Bruce A. VanSledright
		Although John Smith reported ample food supplies in the fall of 1609, by spring 1610, approximately 450 of the 500 Jamestown settlers had died, apparently from starvation.
		By the time all eight had read the four documents and discussed the artistic renditions of the battle, they were evaluating each account from a fairly well-developed situation model.
		Three students observed that this was another one of those historical events where it was very difficult, if not impossible, to determine what "actually happened." Serious differences in viewpoints and recollections as to who fired that famous first shot clouded their ability to draw firm conclusions.
	www.oah.org /pubs/nl/2000aug/vansledright.html (1392 words)

	Neda Dispatch
		By 1586, Raleigh was at it again, this time sending a group that included women and children and the hopes for a long-term community.
		It took three years for White to find a ship to go back to Roanoke and by the time he got there, all he could find was a high fence of logs that had been built where the village used to be.
		This period became known as The Starving Time, and although the colony had grown to 500 people, around 440 of these inhabitants died off.
	www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester1/100400/100400nedaenglish.html (1571 words)

	Powhatan Takes Advantage of "The Starving Time," 1609-1610
		The winter of 1609-1610 became known as "the starving time" in Jamestown.
		Nay, so great was our famine, that a Salvage we slew, and buried, the poorer sort tooke him up againe and eat him, and so did divers one another boyled and stewed with roots and herbs.
		For vpon confidence of his fidelitie, they went one and one into seuerall houses, which caused their seuerall destructions, when if but any sixe had remained together, they would haue been a bulwarke for the generall preseruation.
	frontiers.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/colonial/indians/advantge.html (427 words)

	Life in Old Virginia
		At the time Governor White reached England for assistance "the nation was in great commotion and apprehension of the Spanish Invasion and Invincible Armada."He succeeded in obtaining two small barks, but they were attacked at sea by the Spaniards and compelled to return to England.
		In 1610, the colonists under Lord Delaware drove the tribe of Paspiha off their lands, burnt their houses, took the wife and children of this chief prisoners and slew them.
		This period is known in the history of the colony as "The Starving Time" So terrible was the time that some even ate the flesh of the dead.
	www.newrivernotes.com /va/lova1.htm (17926 words)

	Untitled Document
		The allowance in those times for a man was only eight ounces of meale and half a pint of peas for a day.
		In the year 1610, a Catholic priest in the Americas named Father Sandoval wrote back to a church functionary in Europe to ask if the cap-ture transport, and enslavement of African fls was legal by church doctrine.
		From time to time, white ship captains and watermen dealt with runaways, perhaps making I he slave a part of the crew.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~rwinston/zinnread2.htm (5800 words)

	Newport News, Virginia
		In reality, Newport's arrival proved remarkable in two ways: 1) it brought tobacco to the as yet agriculturally unsuccessful colony, and 2) proved to be a stop-gap for the colonists, postponing the abandonment of the Jamestown colony long enough so that the eventual attempt to abandon Jamestown encountered the supply mission of Thomas West.
		For a short time in the mid-19th century, the county seat was moved to Newport News.
		In modern times, the city is also sometimes locally known by the nickname "Bad Newz," especially the East End "inner-city" area.
	www.homestayfinder.com /Dictionary.aspx?q=Newport_News,_Virginia (2666 words)

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		The smallest known star undergoing fusion in its core is AB Doradus C, a companion to AB Doradus A, which has a mass only 93 times that of Jupiter (planet).
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