LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Canal construction has spanned history: Mesopotamia and India had the oldest canals for irrigation, circa 3,000 B.C.; China's Grand Canal, begun in…
New England Grant (February 12, 1629) to Thomas Lewis and Richard Bonighton by the Council for New England: <To all Christian people to whom these present writing indented shall come, the…
John Bunyan (November 1628-August 31, 1688) was an English author who wrote the classic work, The Pilgrim's Progress, 1678. Born in Bedford, England, he was a poor, unskilled tinker by trade.…
Dutch Reformed Church Letter (August 11, 1628) addressed to Rev. Adrianus Smoutius, Member of the Consistory of the Dutch Reformed Church, Amsterdam: <At the first administration of the Lord's Supper which…
John Ray (November 29, 1627-January 17, 1705) was a British biologist and natural theologian who founded of the Royal Society. Considered the father of English natural history, he was a respected…
Company of a Hundred Associates (April 29, 1627) (COMPAGNIE DES CENT-ASSOCIÉS): <King Henry the Great, our father of glorious memory, did seek and discover the lands and countries of New France,…
Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627-December 30, 1691) considered a "Father of Modern Chemistry," was a British natural philosopher. He studied Bacon, Descartes, and other contemporaries including: scientists Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke and…
Purchase of Manhattan (November 5, 1626) notification by the Dutch: <High and Mighty Lords: Yesterday arrived here the ship the Arms of Amsterdam, which sailed from New Netherlands, out of the…
Charter Granted by Gustave Adolphus (June 14, 1626) to the Swedish South Company: <Whereas...we have received reliable and certain intelligence that there are in...America...many rich countries and islands, of which some…
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