Pennefather River near the modern town of Weipa on Cape York.[46] The Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines and named the island continent "New Holland" during the 17th century‚ but made no attempt at settlement.[46] William Dampier‚ an English explorer and privateer‚ landed on the north-west coast of New Holland in 1688 and again in 1699 on a return trip.[47] In 1770‚ James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast‚ which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain
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The momentum of the Knights was near unstoppable‚ as they marched up field again off the kickoff only for Tapine to score. Holland missed his first kick of the day and the score remained 34-28. The Bulldogs kicked off and gave away a penalty a few tackles later‚ which gifted the Knights more field position before Jaelen Feeney was held up. Just two tackles later‚ Fitzgibbon
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1. Basketball is a very popular game in america. The official basketball season is usually the winter‚ but it is a game which can be played at any time of a year. A team is made up of five players In the United States‚ teams compete in basketball at many levels. There is a professional league called the National Basketball Association (NBA). Basketball is also a popular spectator sport. Many Americans watch basketball games in arenas and on television Basketball is a very exciting game which can
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According to Dictionary.com‚ the definition of cope is to deal effectively with something difficult. During times of war‚ many races and cultures were discriminated and punished due to their skin colors and religious practices. Those people had to deal with that inequity from other human beings. In order for those individuals to stay positive‚ they had to figure out a way to deal with conflict. In the book: Anne Frank: A Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank‚ Anne and her family were needing to
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Ensign Mahan learned much of his naval profession by working on ships that supported the Northern blockade of the Southern ports during the Civil War.. After serving the Union side of the Civil War‚ Mahan spent the next twenty years making his career at sea. In 1886‚ Captain Mahan was appointed as a teacher of Naval History and Tactics at the newly founded Naval War College. In 1890‚ Mahan published “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History”. It turned out to be one of the most important books written
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castle and Napoleon took back control. Allied countries quickly declared the 7th Coalition against France and prepared for war. Napoleon decided to carry out a quick and critical blow by moving against the Anglo-German armies then in Belguim and Holland under the commands of Generals Wellington and Blucher. The campaign didn’t go as planned. The war reached a climax at the Battle of Waterloo where the French Army started to bread down. This victory was the last straw and Napoleon was sent to his
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film‚ she was played by Theda Bara in 1917. Bara portrayed Cleopatra as a sexual predator with a threatening and ominous air. Bara was also depicted as a re-incarnation of Cleopatra‚ because she favoured playing the role of the sexual manipulator (Holland 1997). The portrayal of Cleopatra over the following fifty years depicted her as a nonchalant‚ smiling sophisticated queen to a shrewd stateswoman. But it is still the sexual nature of Cleopatra that more often than not is the central trait of
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conditions of prisoners should improve. Bur Howard saw that new act is ignored by justices and the jailors. o In 1775 he began a tour to prisons in other European countries. He was in France‚ Belgium‚ Holland‚ Italy‚ Spain‚ Portugal‚ Denmark‚ Sweden‚ Russian etc. o His fifth journey to Holland‚ Germany and Russia was fatal. John Howard contracted typhus and died. His work: • The State of Prisons in England and Wales with an Account of Some Foreign Prisons (1777) - the results of
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Music has been a universal language‚a form of expression since cavemen were plunking strings on sticks. evolving with The ages with new genres and instruments to further the possibilities ‚ from classical to jazz‚ blues‚rock‚ and of course metal..we came a long way since then and undeniably one of the most crucial time periods of music‚ leading to the music evolution into the music we hear today‚ especially for rock fans like myself‚ is the 1960’s. America during the 1960’s was a time a change‚
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the Catholic safe haven was born. Religious persecution also bound the Pilgrims to leave England and settle in Holland‚ where there was more religious freedom. However‚ after a number of years the Pilgrims felt that their children were being corrupted by the liberal Dutch lifestyle and were losing their English heritage. News of the English Colony in Virginia motivated them to leave Holland and settle in the New World. Also‚ social rank was of great importance in England. Some hoped to go past their
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