Word: samuel
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Cooney said the Center will also contribute to the training of educational professionals. Samuel Y. Gibbon, Jr., executive producer of CTW's first educational series, "Sesame Street," has been appointed lecturer in Education and will be the Center's first "producer in residence...
...SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN...
...SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON...
More than any other man Samuel de Champlain helped create Quebec as a bastion of French commitment to the New World. He made 23 perilous voyages from France to Canada in the years just after the turn of the 17th century. He navigated the coast of New England down as far as Cape Cod, and pursued inland lakes and rivers to their sources exploring New France. He could not swim. He never managed to learn any Indian language. He had almost no sex life. But he could digest anything. He was also brave and resourceful, as well as the best...
...Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, a World War II admiral and a private yachtsman, Champlain would be a hero for the last two qualities alone. Like Francis Parkman, who tried to traverse all the lands and waters he wrote histories about, Morison has retraced Champlain's paths, starting as a young man in 1906 when he sailed along the French explorer's routes off Nova Scotia and down the New England coast, growing more and more admiring as he remarked how accurate Champlain's soundings and descriptions of such harbors as Plymouth and Gloucester still were after...