Search results for "Northwest Passage" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the Wisconsin Enabling Act, and the Northwest Ordinance. ... of the antislavery provisions of the Northwest Ordinance passed by the ...32 KB (5,035 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- roads cut through the city to allow easier passage for modern traffic. In the ... Twenty miles northwest of Aleppo are the ruins of the vast edifice ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- in his expeditions to discover the Northwest Passage landed on Baffin Island in 1576, where he encountered an Inuit igloo village. ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:41, 4 February 2023
- Due to the slope of the plateau, the northwest corner was cut 10 meters ... then ascending to join the horizontal passage leading to the burial chamber. ...33 KB (5,140 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- if global warming opens up the Northwest Passage as a regular channel ... Arctic grail: the quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818 ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- Land"); in various parts of the Northwest Territories, mainly on ... Martin Frobisher's 1576 search for the Northwest Passage was ...53 KB (8,160 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- Catholic and Irish-speaking region, in northwest Ulster. Very little is ... which also caused a scandal because a passage in it was believed to question ...15 KB (2,286 words) - 07:58, 3 August 2022
- (or impossibility) of finding a passage through the Americas to ... and were willing to pay for a laborer’s passage to America if they served ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- which terminates the plateau on the northwest. These are the sole remaining ... as an informal court of justice. A narrow passage leads inward to the Plaza ...22 KB (3,517 words) - 00:37, 9 January 2023
- of meters. The turbulence following the passage of an active front is composed ... of Western Canada and the American Northwest, the Swiss föhn, California ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 10:56, 15 May 2023
- Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... James Cook explored the coast in 1778 in search of the Northwest Passage ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- city and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... in 1985, is the tallest building in the Pacific Northwest ...49 KB (7,077 words) - 02:45, 21 April 2023
- to locate Hudson and navigate the Northwest Passage. He is credited with ... Fur trading forts were built by both the NorthWest Company and the Hudson ...41 KB (6,242 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- , the Tunica, and the Koroa. Central and northwest Louisiana was home to a ... (along the Red River in present-day northwest Louisiana) was established ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- of Life who granted our forefathers safe passage to this land, who gives ... returned from his search for the Northwest Passage, avoiding the later ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- 20,000 men, to attack Vinh Yen, 20 miles northwest of Hanoi which was manned ... the French garrisons along Nghia Lo, northwest of Hanoi, breaking them ...58 KB (9,174 words) - 19:56, 4 March 2024
- Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" ... The passage bears striking similarities to a Canaanite text (see below ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- pioneer when it built Northland 13 miles northwest of Detroit. In 1969, it ... the GUM in Moscow and the Petrovsky Passage. In Saint Petersburg there ...29 KB (4,395 words) - 09:47, 29 January 2024
- is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the ... United States searching for gold and a passage to China. On May 8, 1541 ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 08:28, 8 January 2024
- The passage of a tropical cyclone over the ocean can cause the upper ... Center. Retrieved June 18, 2020. The Northwest Pacific sees tropical cyclones ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
