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•  Peter Stuyvesant

  Peter Stuyvesant (originally Pieter or Petrus; Peter is never mentioned in historical records) (c. 1612 – August 1672) served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland (New York) from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City. Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan.

  

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•  Matthew Newcomen

  Matthew Newcomen (c. 1610 – September 1, 1669) was an English nonconformist churchman. His exact date of birth is unknown. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge (M.A. 1633). In 1636 he became lecturer at Dedham in Essex, and led the church reform party in that county. He assisted Edmund Calamy the Elder in writing Smectymnuus (1641), and preached before parliament in 1643. He was multi-talented, excelling in preaching and debate, and was offered several lucrative positions.

  

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•  Charles Fleetwood

  Charles Fleetwood (c. 1618 – 4 October 1692) was an English Parliamentary soldier and politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1652-55, where he enforced the Cromwellian Settlement. At the Restoration he was included in the Act of Indemnity as among the twenty liable to penalties other than capital, and was finally incapacitated from holding any office of trust. His public career then closed.

  

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•  George Carteret

  Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet (c. 1610 – 18 January 1680 N.S. ), son of Elias de Carteret, was a royalist statesman in Jersey and England, who served in the Clarendon Ministry as Treasurer of the Navy. He was also one of the original Lords Proprietor of the Carolina colony.

  

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•  Jean François Sarrazin

  Jean François Sarrazin or Sarasin (1611? – December 5, 1654), French author, son of Roger Sarasin, treasurer-general at Caen, was born at Hermanville near Caen. He was educated at Caen, and settled in Paris. As a writer of vers de société he rivalled Voiture, but he was never admitted to the inner circle of the hotel de Rambouillet. He was on terms of intimate friendship with Scarron, with whom he exchanged verses, with Ménage, and with Pellisson.

  

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•  Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan

  Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard and died at the Siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War. A fictionalized account of his life by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras formed the basis for the d'Artagnan Romances of Alexandre Dumas, most famously including The Three Musketeers.

  

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•  Peter Stent

  Peter Stent (c. 1613-1665) was a seventeenth century London printseller, who from the early 1640s until his death ran one of the biggest printmaking businesses of the day.

  

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•  Anne Bradstreet

  Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612 – September 16, 1672) was an English-American writer, the first notable American poet, and the first woman to be published in Colonial America. Her work was very influential to Puritans in her time.

  

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•  Richard Crashaw

  Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 25 August 1649), English poet, styled "the divine," was part of the Seventeenth-century Metaphysical School of poets.

  

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•  Donald Cargill

  Donald Cargill (1619 – 27 July 1681) was a Scottish Covenanter, working to uphold the National Covenants of 1638 and 1643 to establish and defend Presbyterianism. He was educated at Aberdeen and St Andrews Universities. In 1655 he was appointed Minister to Parish of Barony in Glasgow from which he was dismissed or ejected in 1662. He returned later and tried to hold a communion but the service was interrupted and he was arrested briefly.

  

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•  King Kong (2005 film)

  King Kong is a 2005 remake of the 1933 film of the same name directed by Peter Jackson and stars Naomi Watts, Jack Black and Adrien Brody. Andy Serkis, through performance capture, portrayed Kong. The film's budget climbed from an initial US$150 million to a record-breaking $207 million. The film was released on December 14, 2005 and made an opening of $50.1 million.

  

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•  Lake Yanahuani

  Lake Yanahuin is situated in the central Peruvian Andes in the Pasco Region at an altitude of ca. 4,900 m. The site made world headlines in 1971 when on March 18 a rock avalanche of 100,000 m³ fell from an outcrop of jointed limestone ca. 400 m above the lake, causing a wave of 30 m that destroyed the mining camp of Chungar on the shore and killed 200-600 miners.

  

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•  Pants-Off Dance-Off

  Pants-Off Dance-Off (PODO) is a dance contest that aired on Fuse that premiered on April 18, 2006. The show is now shown on its official website. The show features stripteasers as they dance while disrobing.

  

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•  Virginia State Route 204

  State Route 204 is a primary state highway in the Northern Neck region of the U.S. state of Virginia. It runs from State Route 3 to the George Washington Birthplace National Monument.

  

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