Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Another Englishman, Claude Goldie, number 7 on Leander and probable stroke of the Cambridge eight this year, is expected a fortnight later...
...colony extended its limits. A very harsh code of laws was put into force. To the upright, Dale was a friend and helper; toward the depraved he was merciless. An alliance with the Indians was cemented by the romantic union of the princess Pocahontas and the young Englishman, John Rolfe...
...spoke of experiences in connection with his work, of his models, and of life in general, as viewed from the standpoint of the artist. Mr. Grinfield Coxwell, professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons told of his life in Burmah and following him, Mr. E. W. Hughs, an Englishman, related adventures in Manitoba and the Northwest. Several musical numbers were then given, among them a solo by D. Grant...
...make some explorations. He excavated near Nineveh an old Assyrian palace, probably built about 700 B. C. The palace has over two hundred chambers. This great discovery is exhaustively described and illustrated in five folio volumes on the subject published by the French government. Mr. Austin Henry Layard, an Englishman, took up the work at Nineveh in 1845-7. Victor Place made some valuable excavations at Khorsabad in 1851-55, an account of which was published in 1857 and again in 1870. Both Botta and Place were especially interested in the Assyrian architecture and sculpture, and much of our knowledge...
...publication by the J. B. Lippincott Company of Owen Hall's first novel, "The Track of a Storm," has developed the fact that this gifted magazinist has been masquing under a nom de plume. He is an Englishman who has been for many years a traveller in the far east, has been a member of the New Zealand Parliament and a student of the British dominions in the Pacific. Hence the knowledge of these regions shown in his story, which shifts from the England of a generation ago to the penal settlements of the Orient...