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Squanto Tisquantum (/ t ɪ s ˈ k w ɑː n t ə m /; c. 1585 (±10 years ?) – late November 1622 o.s.), more commonly known by the diminutive variant Squanto, was a member of the Patuxet tribe best known for being an early liaison between the native populations in Southern New England and the Mayflower Pilgrims who made their settlement at the site of Squanto's former summer village.
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- Sequoyah was a silversmith who created the alphabet for the  Cherokee language. His English name was George Gist or George  Guess.
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- Tisquantum (c. 1585 (±10 years ?) – late November 1622 o.s.), whose name was variously spelled in 17th-century documents and is commonly known as Squanto today, was one of the last of the Patuxet, a Native North American people living on the western coast of Cape Cod Bay, annihilated by an epidemic infection.
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Arthel Neville Arthel Neville is a journalist and television personality of America. She was born on October 20, 1960. She is the daughter of Art Neville who founded New Orleans music groups The Meters and The Neville Brothers. Her birth place is New Orleans, Louisiana where she was also raised. She went to St. Mary’s Dominican High School, New Orleans.
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Granville Sharp For the Labour Party Member of Parliament, see Granville Maynard Sharp. Granville Sharp (10 November 1735 – 6 July 1813) was one of the first English campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade. He also involved himself in trying to correct other social injustices.
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John Jenrette Wofford College (B.A.) University of South Carolina (LL.B.) John Wilson Jenrette, Jr. (born May 19, 1936) is an American former politician from South Carolina, best known for his involvement in the ABSCAM corruption scandal, and being the husband of Playboy model Rita Jenrette. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from January 1975 until December 1980.
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- Iltutmish Biography. Iltutmish belonged to the slave dynasty and succeeded to the throne after Qutub-ud-din-Aibak. He was one of the leading rulers of the Delhi Sultanate and played a key role in extending the empire to a large part of the country.
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Sequoyah Sequoyah (ᏍᏏᏉᏯ Ssiquoya, as he signed his name, or ᏎᏉᏯ Se-quo-ya, as his name is often spelled today in Cherokee) (c.1770—1843), named in English George Gist or George Guess, was a Cherokee silversmith.
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Tenskwatawa Tenskwatawa (also called Tenskatawa, Tenskwatawah, Tensquatawa or Lalawethika) (January 1775 – November 1836) was a Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe, known as the Prophet or the Shawnee Prophet. He was a younger brother of Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee.
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- Florida is flamboyantly nicknamed the Sunshine State, Alligator State, Everglade State, the Orange State, the Flower State, the Peninsula State, the Land of Flowers. Florida's official state flag was adopted in 1900. In 1513, Ponce DeLeon, was seeking the mythical Fountain of Youth, and discovered Florida , claiming it for Spain.
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Wentworth Cheswell Wentworth Cheswell. Wentworth Cheswell (also spelled Cheswill) (11 April 1746 – 8 March 1817) was an African-American teacher, American Revolutionary War veteran, assessor, auditor, selectman and Justice of the Peace in Newmarket, New Hampshire.
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Robert Knox Robert Knox c.1830. Robert Knox, FRSE FRCSE MWS (4 September 1793 – 20 December 1862) was a Scottish anatomist, zoologist, ethnologist and doctor. He was the most popular lecturer on anatomy in Britain, where he introduced the theory of transcendental anatomy, but is now mainly remembered for his involvement in the Burke and Hare murders.
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- Tisquantum, probably on board to act as an interpreter for the trades, was one of those captured. They were bound, and sailed to Malaga, Spain, where Hunt tried to sell them for slaves at £20 apiece.
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Knecht Ruprecht Knecht Ruprecht (English: Farmhand Rupert or Servant Rupert) is a companion of Saint Nicholas as described in the folklore of Germany. He first appears in written sources in the 17th century, as a figure in a Nuremberg Christmas procession.necht Ruprecht (English: Farmhand Rupert or Servant Rupert) is a companion of Saint Nicholas as described in the folklore of Germany. He first appears in written sources in the 17th century, as a figure in a Nuremberg Christmas procession.
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- William Morris Stewart. (August 9, 1825 – April 23, 1909) William Stewart was a U.S. senator from Nevada who played an important role in the congressional passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and its ratification by his home state legislature. He was born to Miranda Morris Stewart and Frederick Augustus Stewart on August 9, 1825, on the family farm outside Lyons, New York.
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Taizong Taizong (birth name, Li-Shimin, 598-649 CE, r. 626-649 CE) was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty and is considered one of the greatest rulers in Chinese history for his reforms of the government and the laws, his religious tolerance, and the prosperity China enjoyed under his reign.
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History of Mars observation Hence, prior to the invention of the telescope, nothing was known about the planet besides its position on the sky. The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei was the first person known to use a telescope to make astronomical observations. His records indicate that he began observing Mars through a telescope in September 1610.
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- Robert Moses (1935–) is an educator and civil rights activist. After earning a master’s degree in philosophy at Harvard, Moses moved to the South and served as field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, working to register black voters in Mississippi as director of SNCC’s Mississippi Project.obert Moses (1935–) is an educator and civil rights activist. After earning a master’s degree in philosophy at Harvard, Moses moved to the South and served as field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, working to register black voters in Mississippi as director of SNCC’s Mississippi Project.
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Horatio Gates Horatio Lloyd Gates (July 26, 1727 – April 10, 1806) was a retired British soldier who served as an American general during the Revolutionary War. He took credit for the American victory in the Battles of Saratoga (1777) – a matter of contemporary and historical controversy – and was blamed for the defeat at the Battle of Camden in 1780.
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- Henry Knox. Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806) was a military officer of the Continental Army and later the United States Army, who also served as the first United States Secretary of War from 1789 to 1794.
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- Sequoyah. Sequoyah, is the great Cherokee Indian that gave his people a gift that will endure forever. He created a writing system-so that the greatness of the Cherokee Nation will live forever. Sequoyah was born in 1776 near the town of Tuskeegee, Tennessee, near Chote. Sequoyah was a mixed breed Cherokee. His mother Wut-teh was a full blood Cherokee, the daughter of a Cherokee Chief. He was usually known to his white contemporaries as George Guess, or Gist (because, it is claimed, he was fathered by a white explorer-soldier, Nathaniel Gist).
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Eratosthenes Eratosthenes of Cyrene (/ɛrəˈtɒsθəniːz/; Greek: ἐρατοσθένης ὁ κυρηναῖος, IPA: [eratostʰénɛːs]; c. 276 BC[1] – c. 195/194 BC[2]) was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria.
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- Emory J. Tolbert (born 26 December 1946) is an African-American historian, archivist and activist.
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Eratosthenes Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria. He invented the discipline of geography, including the terminology used today. He is best known for being the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth, which he did by comparing altitudes of the mid-day sun at two places a known North-South distance apart. His calculation was remarkably accurate. H
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Squanto Facts Click here for a great selection of books about Squanto on AMAZON. Interesting Facts about Squanto. Squanto's birth name is Tisquantum and he has also been referred to as Squantum throughout history. Because of being kidnapped several times in his life, Squanto traveled extensively through Europe, Newfoundland and the northeast coast of the United States.
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- BLACK REVOLUTIONARY ERA PATRIOT. Wentworth Cheswell. (1746-1817)At WallBuilders we strive to “present America’s forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on our moral, religious, and constitutional heritage,” so Wentworth Cheswell (sometimes Chiswell or Cheswill) is a perfect subject for our attention.