Word: jamestowne
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...Lost Colony is a play about the English colony that was established on Roanoke Island 22 years before the Jamestown folk first sailed into Chesapeake Bay and 35 years before the Mayflower put in at Plymouth. In 1584 Walter Raleigh's agents landed here; the environs were named Virginia, after the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth, who chose the name. The next year Raleigh sent out the first colonizers, all men. Sir Richard Grenville was heavily involved; Sir Francis Drake paid a call. In 1587 a second group was dispatched, this one including women and children. They baptized an Indian named...
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...prosaic observers, the figure thus impeccably attired was not really Civilization, but just a powerfully angry American, name of Robert Jackson of Jamestown, N.Y. But to the more imaginative (including Jackson) it was Civilization itself which stood at the prosecutor's rostrum, resonantly accusing the 20 Germans in the dock of vile assault & battery on all mankind...
...other side of the floodlit, simply furnished courtroom sat Germany's fallen leaders. They had fallen far and hard. Only a short time ago, their words and deeds had brought fear to people from Murmansk to Lands End to Jamestown, N.Y. Now they were just an odd and seedy assortment of soldiers, rowdies, bureaucrats and bourgeois, who hardly looked important enough to have provoked the heavy wave of hatred, disgust and indignation which had swept them to the prisoners...
...Government should find no shortage of buyers. Land has always been an important part of the American dream. The settlers began by clearing the forests around Jamestown, Va., 350 years ago. Then they crossed the continent like a slow but inexorable army, laying claim to property to build homes, to grow food, to graze cattle, to protect water supplies. Their eagerness was understandable. Never mind how large and grand the continent of North America was, the amount of land was finite. Once it was occupied, there was no way to create any more...