1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X. After the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey, his secretary, Thomas Cromwell, finds himself amongst the treachery and intrigue of King Henry VIII's court and soon becomes a close advisor to the King, a role fraught with danger.
The Strait of Juan de Fuca explored by John Meares On Sunday, June 29, 1788, Captain John Meares sighted an inlet that he named the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Meares was most likely the first European explorer to reach the Strait since Juan de Fuca's claim to have been there in 1592 was never documented.
IT was in the part of the United States which we now call North Carolina, you remember, that Sir Walter Raleigh tried to found a colony. That colony came to nothing, and the land which the white men had reclaimed from the wilderness returned once more to the wilderness. Nearly a hundred years went past before white men again appeared in that part of the country.