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1560-1592 British navigator and buccaneer who led the third expedition to circumnavigate the globe (1586-1588). A member of Parliament, Cavendish began his maritime career around 1585 when he joined British admiral Sir Richard Grenville (1541?-1591) on...
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Sir Thomas Cavendish (or Candish) (1560[1]-1592) was known as "the Navigator" because he led the third expedition to circumnavigate the globe, and was the first who deliberately set out to do so. While Magellan (first) and Francis Drake (second) had...


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Utopian Studies
Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind.(Review)
01/01/2000: 1,594 words, approx. 5 pages
Anna Battigelli. Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind. Lexington: UP Kentucky, 1998. xii + 180 pp. $32.00 (cloth). ANNA BATTIGELLI'S intellectual biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-73), focuses on her commitment to "the life of the mind." Battigelli suggests...
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Cavendish Banana
01/30/2002: 406 words, approx. 1 pages
This week's look at what's new, bountiful or mysterious in the produce aisles. Legend has it -- in some lands, anyway -- that Eve proffered Adam a banana, not an apple, according to "The Visual Food Encyclopedia (MacMillan, 1996). Could be. But...
 


 

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