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The Journals of Lewis & Clark: July 28, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark July 27, 1806July 29, 1806July 28, 1806 July 28th 1806 Monday. The morning proved fair, I slept sound but fortunately awoke as day appeared, I…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: April 12, 1805

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark April 11, 1805April 13, 1805April 12, 1805 Friday April the 12th 1805. Set out at an early hour. our peroge and the Canoes passed over to the…

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New England

(Encyclopedia) New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought…

Budapest

(Encyclopedia) Budapest Budapest b&oomacr;ˈdəpĕstˌ [key], city (2020 est. pop. 1,768,000), capital of Hungary, N…

Brown, John, American abolitionist

(Encyclopedia) Brown, John, 1800–1859, American abolitionist, b. Torrington, Conn. He spent his boyhood in Ohio. Before he became prominent in the…

Warsaw

(Encyclopedia) WarsawWarsawwôrˈsô [key], Pol. Warszawa, city (1993 est. pop. 1,655,700), capital of Poland and of Mazowieckie prov., central Poland, on both banks of the Vistula River. It is a…