John Davis
1550?-1605
British navigator and Arctic explorer who made three voyages in search of a Northwest Passage from Europe to the Indies (1585, 1586, and 1587), visiting Greenland and Baffin Isla...
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John Davis
1550?-1605
English navigator and explorer who went in search of the Northwest Passage from Europe to the Pacific. Davis was born near Dartmouth, in Devon. He fell in love with the sea as a ...
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English navigator John Davis (ca. 1550-1605), though remembered chiefly as a northern explorer, sailed many seas, took part in naval fighting, and invented a nautical instrument.John Davis, a Devonshi...
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John Davis, novelist, poet, translator, and teacher, although not an American by birth or naturalization, owes much of his literary recognition to the United States. His writing career flourished duri...
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Officials from a suburban Massachusetts school district asked a federal judge Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two couples who claim their parental rights were violated when homosexuality wa...
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The Kansas City Zoo plans to press charges against two teenage boys who allegedly climbed into the hippo exhibit and threw rocks at the two-ton mammals, zoo officials said.A 14-year-old witness spo...
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DiscoveryThe concept of Antarctica was conjured up by the Ancient Greeks. They believed there had to be a large southern land mass to counterbalance the countries of the northern hemisphere. The fa...
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Dell Inc. unveiled an environmental plan Wednesday that the computer maker said will make its operations carbon-neutral by 2008, a year earlier than it previously promised.Dell said it would achiev...
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Intel INTC and AMD AMD are expanding their long-running battle from Silicon Valley to rural villages in Asia and Africa.The No. 1 and No. 2 PC chip sellers are leading the movement to bring low-cos...
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