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Memorial and honor books at the Patterson Library in Westfield for Aug. 1 to Dec. 31:Cupcakes everywhere One sweet tale of overcoming infertility by Erin Sarris was given by Nadine Stacy Chamber ...

It was a British ship that was best known for its first voyage (1769-71) with James Cook as captain. On that voyage, Cook brought Endeavour to Tahiti to watch the transit of Venus across the sun.

Whitby has a deep heritage which spans more than a thousand years that inspired Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula - here is its history ahead of the Yorkshire town’s annual event Whitby Steampunk Weekend.

This was an historic voyage across oceans to the other side of the world ... The previous accounts by the navigator Captain James Cook had somewhat misled the crew into believing this would be a ...

9 THE WIDE WIDE SEA (Doubleday, $35). By Hampton Sides. An account of the explorer Captain James Cook’s ill-fated final voyage. 10 THE LET THEM THEORY (Hay House, $29.99). By Mel Robbins.

Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied Captain Cook on HMS Endeavour’s voyage to the South Pacific (1768-1771 ... Allan Cunningham and James Bowie. Their love of plants and willingness to explore ...

But his return voyage had been delayed again and ... a hundred miles to the north on the James River, in what is now Virginia. Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from ...

While Cook is historically recognised as the explorer who charted and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, his arrival is also seen as a prelude to the violent colonisation, ...

The statue of a person some call an "explorer" and others call a "colonizer" has been vandalized in Australia. English naval ...