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  1. Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
    1: ...presumed to have died in [[1611]] somewhere in [[Hudson Bay]], [[Canada]].
    3: ...turn to England on the 31st. On the return voyage Hudson discovered what is now known as [[Jan Mayen Islan...
    7: ...n [[1524]])–and sailing a distance up the [[Hudson River]], which bears his name. The Dutch would la...
    9: ...s England had enacted to protect its trade routes from the Dutch. He was soon released.
    11: ...nder the English flag; this time the funding came from the [[Virginia Company]] and the [[British East...
  2. Hudson Bay (2815 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Hudsonbay.png|thumb|right|Hudson Bay, Canada.]]
    2: ... it is connected with the [[Atlantic Ocean]] by [[Hudson Strait]], and on the north with the rest of the A...
    4: ...umerous former beachfronts can be seen far inland from the current shore.
    6: ... of James Bay. When the ice cleared in the spring Hudson wanted to explore the rest of the area, but the c...
    8: ...as abolished. Although the company is called the Hudson's Bay Company (with "'s"), the body of water does...

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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
    7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
    8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
    11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
    25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
  2. List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
    58: *[[Francisco de Almeida]]
    77: *[[Francis Drake]]
    79: *[[Martin Frobisher]]
    80: *[[Humfry Gilbert]]
    81: *[[Henry Hudson]]
  3. Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
    2: '''Rush Hudson Limbaugh III''' (born [[January 12]], [[1951]] in...
    8: ...yst]]" and "a [[American football|football]] knee from [[high school]]" [Colford, pp 14 – 20].
    12: ...l years in [[music radio]], Limbaugh took a break from radio and accepted a position as director of pr...
    24: ...ded badly when on one show Limbaugh got into a confrontation with some [[ACT-UP]] hecklers and had to ...
    26: ...e same topics as his radio show, and was taped in front of a live audience, which he facetiously claim...
  4. Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
    5: ... from [[Claverack College]] in [[Hudson, New York|Hudson]], Sanger trained as a [[nurse]] and worked for t...
    9: ...aper advocating birth control. She also separated from William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family...
    15: ...egate of the Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the In...
    17: ...lable [[birth control pill]]. She toured Europe, Africa, and Asia, lecturing and helping to establish ...
    24: ...gh Sanger was greatly influenced by her father, a freethinker, her mother's death left her with a deep...
  5. Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
    5: ... Archie]]'') and to the production of ''[[The Boy Friend]]'' in [[1953]] (which transferred to [[Broad...
    7: In [[1956]], composers [[Frederick Loewe]] and [[Alan Jay Lerner]] cast Andre...
    9: ...]]'', co-starring with [[Max von Sydow]], and [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Torn Curtain]]'' with [[Paul ...
    11: ...Lawrence]], and ''[[Darling Lili]]'', with [[Rock Hudson]] ([[1970]]), are often cited by critics as major...
    15: ...reed to direct a [[Toronto]] revival of ''The Boy Friend'', the Broadway musical in which she made her...
  6. Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
    25: ...;[[February 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage.
    29: ... of [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]] from [[1808]] until [[1813]], when he was removed. I...
    33: ...08]], moved from Kinderhook to [[Hudson, New York|Hudson]], and in [[1816]] he took up his residence in [[...
    39: ...ion, where he opposed the grant of [[universal suffrage]]. His course in the Senate was not altogether...
    43: ...oted for the measure in obedience to instructions from the New York [[State legislature|legislature]] ...
  7. Canada (35540 bytes)
    3: ...e of the many "main" articles about Canada linked from this article, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[G...
    10: ...[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] populat...
    17: ...ions]], the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilingualism ...
    18: * [[Canadian French|French]] is the majority language of [[Quebec]] and ...
    46: ...t|[[New Brunswick]]||[[Fredericton, New Brunswick|Fredericton]]
  8. Pakistan (74854 bytes)
    39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br /...
    62: ...nions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of the [[Panjshir province|Panjshir]]...
    64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwestern India...
    69: ... by the [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entir...
    72: ... the British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Em...
  9. Flag of the State of New York (833 bytes)
    8: The unheraldic nature of the [[Hudson River]] landscape reveals the modern origin of th...
    10: The motto ''Excelsior'' is derived from [[Latin]], and means "Ever Upward."
  10. Cotton (7876 bytes)
    9: ...ton in [[Mexico|Mexican]] caves (cotton cloth and fragments of fiber interwoven with [[feather]]s and ...
    11: ...tton: "There are trees which grow wild there, the fruit of which is a [[wool]] exceeding in beauty and...
    13: ...n, familiar only with [[animal]] fibers ([[wool]] from [[sheep]]), could only imagine that cotton must...
    15: ...as cultivated throughout the warmer regions in [[Africa]], [[Eurasia]] and [[the Americas]].
    17: ...ing Jenny]] ([[1764]]) and Arkwright's [[spinning frame]] ([[1769]]) enabled cheap mass-production of ...
  11. Oregon (26551 bytes)
    43: ...the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pace of logging in its forests.
    51: By the [[1820s]] and [[1830s]], the British [[Hudson's Bay Company]] dominated the [[Pacific Northwest...
    61: ...fornians (or outsiders in general). State ballots frequently illustrate the extremes of the political ...
    68: ... that the name came from an engraver's error in a French map published in the early 1700s, naming the ...
    69: ...m the word ''oolighan'', referring to grease made from fish, which the [[Native American]]s of the reg...
  12. New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
    36: ... the most famous of all [[state motto]]s: "[[Live free or die]]".
    51: ... modern [[Republican Party]] by [[Amos Tuck]] and friends. New Hampshire grew as a hotbed of [[Aboliti...
    58: ...ther [[John H. Sununu]] was governor of the state from [[1983]]&ndash;[[1988]]. [[List of New Hampshir...
    60: ...ampshire)| Executive Council]] that is a holdover from the [[Governor's Council]] of the Colonial era....
    66: ...ermont]] voted on [[March 2]], [[2004]] to secede from [[Vermont]] and join New Hampshire&mdash;a larg...
  13. New Jersey (35646 bytes)
    41: ...]] (the land that would become New Jersey) to two friends who had been loyal through the [[English Civ...
    43: ...lish Crown and gave sanctuary to the King. It was from the Royal Square in St. Helier that [[Charles I...
    45: ...was in the Hudson River region and came primarily from New England. The first permanent English settl...
    63: ... However, by the close of the Civil War, several African-Americans in New Jersey were still in bondage...
    70: ... two [[United States Senate|U.S. Senators]] are [[Frank R. Lautenberg]] (Democrat) and [[Jon Corzine]]...
  14. Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
    1: ...h century]], in search of a home where they could freely practice their [[Puritan]] style of religion ...
    3: The various members of the group had broken away from the [[Church of England]], feeling that the Chu...
    5: ...n [[1620]] set sail on the ship ''[[Mayflower]]'' from [[Plymouth]], bound for the [[United States|Ame...
    10: ...[1588]] but this was not the only nor last threat from that quarter (there were other armadas in other...
    12: ...y]]. This grant would have placed them near the [[Hudson River]].
  15. Mayflower (4074 bytes)
    2: ...[ship]] which transported the [[Pilgrim Fathers]] from [[Plymouth]], [[England]] to "[[Virginia|North ...
    6: ...and]] and other European countries, principally [[France]] but also [[Norway]], [[Germany]] and [[Spai...
    8: ...f the ship are unknown, but it has been estimated from its load weight and the usual size of 180-ton m...
    11: ...tion was a section of land in the area near the [[Hudson River]]. Forced off course by poor weather, the ...
    17: ... [[April 5]], [[1621]] the ''Mayflower'' set sail from [[Plymouth Colony]] in [[Massachusetts]] on a r...
  16. List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
    7: ... allowing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
    178: *[[List of largest optical refracting telescopes]]
    280: **[[List of tributaries of Hudson Bay]]
    363: *[[Historical African place names]]
    371: *[[List of toponyms]] (with names derived from a place or region)
  17. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
    12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
    17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
    29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
    59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]])
  18. Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
    3: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''1600 to 1699'''.
    11: *[[1608]]-[[France|French]] establish colony at [[Quebec]]
    12: ...], hired by the Dutch, explores the present-day [[Hudson River]]
    13: ...inces]] ([[the Netherlands]]) lays claim to the [[Hudson Valley]] area
    18: *[[1619]]-First African [[slavery|slaves]] arrive at Jamestown
  19. History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
    5: ...een." Further along their line of march, they confronted a much larger group of militia at a bridge i...
    7: ...nd [[Continental Congress]], with representatives from 13 of the [[United_Kingdom|British]] [[colonies...
    9: ...rson]]. However, Jefferson's work was reviewed by Franklin at length and then submitted to the Congres...
    11: ... States with a great wilderness empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River, and incl...
    21: ...Seven Years' War]] and in North America, as the [[French and Indian War]], in 1763, Britain had emerge...
  20. Socrates (7975 bytes)
    5: ...elium]] and the [[Battle of Amphipolis]]. We know from [[Symposium (Plato)|Plato's ''Symposium'']] tha...
    7: ...hanes, he managed a scientific institute with his friend Chaerophon; Plato has Socrates tell us that h...
    9: ... At a time when [[Athens]] was seeking to recover from humiliating defeat, the Athenian public court w...
    11: ...g and strived for knowledge. Historical accounts from varied sources, while questionable, suggest tha...
    48: ...ction to Greek Philosophy'', J. V. Luce, Thames & Hudson, NY, l992.

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