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History of Yorkshire - Wikipedia  Yorkshire is a historic county of England, centred on the county town of York. The region was .... By 5000 BC Britain was separated from mainland Europe after rising sea .... The Templeborough area of Rotherham, just south of the Don, takes its .... Danish Vikings crossed the North Sea to plunder the coast of Northumbria...
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Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History by ...  Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History by Arlene Alda. ... It was incorporated into the city at large in 1898, and it is the only borough on the mainland. ... from one of its first settlers, a seventeenth-century Scandinavian named Jonas Bronck, whose lineage has been traced to Sweden and Denmark.
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A Bronck in the Bronx Gives a Swedish Town a Reason to Cheer ...  Aug 19, 2014 ... He emigrated to Denmark, where he became a mariner, and then to the ... The Broncks built a stone house they named Emmaus (after a site where Jesus ... The Bronx is the only borough with an article before its name (a ... from the mainland by the original course of the Harlem River until a century ago).
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Bronx New York.com : Hotels : History : Map  ... it is the only borough of New York City on the mainland; 24% of its landmass of 42 ... In 1639, the first European settler came to establish himself on the mainland north and ... He, his wife and his indentured servants from Germany, Denmark and the ... When Bronck died in 1643, the only thing that was named after him that...
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Canvey Island - Wikipedia  Coordinates: 513058N 03459E / 51.516N 0.583E / 51.516; 0.583. Canvey Island is a civil parish and reclaimed island in the Thames estuary in Essex, England. It has an area of 7.12 square miles (18.44 km2) and a population of 38,170. It is separated from the mainland of south Essex by a network of creeks. ... Canvey is also notable for its relationship to the petrochemical industry.
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Hans Christian Andersen | Danish author | Britannica.com  Danish author. born. April 2, 1805. Odense, Denmark. died. August 4, 1875 ... Andersen was born in a slum and had a difficult battle breaking through the rigid...
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Cornelius Vanderbilt - Business Leader, Philanthropist - Biography ...  Mar 5, 2016 ... Cornelius Vanderbilt was a famous industrialist who worked in ... He began a passenger ferry business in New York harbor with one boat, then started his own ... He also provided the first rail service between New York and Chicago. ... Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on May 27, 1794, on Staten Island, New...
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Borough (New York City) - Wikipedia  New York City, in the U.S. state of New York, is composed of five boroughs. They are .... Brooklyn is known for its cultural, social, and ethnic diversity, an independent art ... and the only New York City borough that is part of the United States mainland. ... entirely outside the city's metropolitan area which have been called New...
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jeopardy/202_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  AMERICAN PLACE NAMES | Immigrants from this country named a South Dakota county Haakon, in honor of King Haakon VII | Norway. right: Steve. Wrong:.
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Greenland in the center: what happened when the Danish ...  All of these islands  including the Danish dependencies in the southern ... Elsewhere in the North Atlantic, reforming projects in Icelandic farming, fishing, .... Finn Gad rather grandiosely calls, the first preservation regulation ever issued for...
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Hans Christian Andersen - The Danish Cultural Heritage ...  Our Tribute to a Great Dane ... Just like in one of his famous fairytales. ... April 1805 - in Odense on the Isle of Funen in the 19th century and right in the middle .... Clumsy Hans- "The Nightingale" - "The Princess and the Pea" - "The Steadfast...
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Staten Island, New York City - Wikipedia  Staten Island /sttn alnd/ is one of the five boroughs of New York City, in the state of ... The West Shore is the least populated and most industrial part of the island. .... In 1609, the English explorer Henry Hudson, sailing for the Dutch Republic, sailed into Upper .... 1609  Henry Hudson names island "Staaten Eylandt.
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BAYONNE BRIDGE, Staten Island to New Jersey - Forgotten New York  Nov 18, 2012 ... Staten Island: In 2012, we're in Richmond County, but the borough of ... a strait separating the north shore of Staten Island from Bergens Point, New ... Kill Van Kull means channel from the ridge while Arthur Kill comes ... It's unique among NYC area islands, as it is divided between two states, NY and NJ.
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Danish tourist influx in US Virgin Islands revives ties with former colony  Jan 18, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands -- The Danish owned ... from Denmark, coming in greater numbers than their colonial forebears ... cross the Atlantic to explore the increasingly affordable U.S. territory. Hotels in the capital named for a 17th-century Danish queen, Charlotte Amalie, ... Friends Name:.
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The Grammarphobia Blog: Why does the Bronx have a the?  Dec 19, 2006 ... ... says the Bronx has a the because it's named after the Bronx River, which ... turn, was named after Jonas Bronck, the first European settler in the area, ... One common misconception, he says, is that the borough got its 'the'...
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History of the Faroe Islands - Wikipedia  The early details of the Faroe Islands are often unclear. It is possible that Brendan, an Irish ... independence referendum in 1946, the Faroe Islands were given extended self-governance with the Danish .... Norwegian supremacy continued until 1380, when the islands became part of the dual monarchy DenmarkNorway.
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Roskilde | Denmark | Britannica.com  City, eastern Zealand (Sjlland), Denmark, at the head of Roskilde Fjord. It is named for its legendary founder, Hroar (Ro), and the sacred springs (kilde), ... 10201416) and capital of Denmark (until 1443), it has been a bishopric since about 1060 ... industries have now been replaced by more research-oriented business.
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Colonialism in Greenland: An Inuit Perspective - Arctic Circle  While the North Atlantic islands-including Greenland-were called bilande, ... Greenland as a dependency was under the responsibility of the Danish Parliament.
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Book - Royal Danish Consulate  Denmark possesses three small islands in the West Indies; St. Thomas, St. John, and St. ... must be extremely cautious during the summer months, in the so-called ..... company began the settlement of Guadaloupe, while a group of settlers from. St. ..... to conclude a treaty of alliance with the new Danish king, Christian V.50.
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Timeline of Baltimore - Wikipedia  The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States ... He built a house and is known as Baltimore's first settler. ... named "Copus Harbor" at "Long Island Point" (vicinity of modern Lancaster Street, ..... a general municipal medical facility renamed the Baltimore City Hospitals by the 1920s.
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Helsingr - Wikipedia  Helsingr classically known in English as Elsinore, is a city in eastern Denmark. Helsingr had a population of 46,492 on 1 January 2015. It is known for its castle Kronborg, where William Shakespeare's play Hamlet...