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 Devonshire man, was friendly with the Gilbert and Raleigh...

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 during the twenty-year period (1798-1817) that he...

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 child, and as an adult became convinced that he could navigate...

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 Island. As pilot and navigator for Thomas Cavendish's second...

John Davis (1543—December 29 1605), was one of the chief English navigators and explorers under Elizabeth I, especially in Polar regions. Davis was born at Sandridge near Dartmouth 1543. From a boy he was a sailor, and early went on voyages with...

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 was discussed in their children's classrooms.U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf did not immediately issue a decision...

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 spotted the boys Monday as the hippos were becoming angry and charging. The boys,...

Demographics: Advocates of population stabilization -- a euphemism for population reduction -- are highly skilled at gaining attention for their cause. They're not so good, though, at dealing with the facts.From the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which favors a global population of less than 1...

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 achieve the goal through a variety of methods, including buying so-called carbon offsets, replacing incandescent light...