Search results for "Northwest Passage" - New World Encyclopedia
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- with the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. During the two-year overland ... numerous plans to explore the Pacific Northwest. In 1785, Jefferson learned ...22 KB (3,473 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- Pennsylvania. From Pittsburgh, it flows northwest through Allegheny and Beaver ... The river then follows a roughly southwest and then west-northwest ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- consisted of what is now the Pacific Northwest of the United States and ... April 1846 that both houses complied. The passage was delayed (especially ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Valley of Flowers National Park to the northwest, UNESCO designated the ... of arduous exploration in search of a passage into the Sanctuary. The ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 01:17, 11 November 2022
- Nawabganj, the capture of Faizabad, the passage of the Gumti and the action ... sympathizers in Maryland, who found him passage into Virginia with a blockade ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- the Hudson Bay in search of a Northwest Passage. The crew mutinied and set Hudson, his teenage son John, and seven crewmen loyal to Hudson adrift ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- ceremonies and significant rite of passage. Thus, they resisted strongly ... The coming of age rite of passage is celebrated differently by boys ...22 KB (3,332 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- tropical water, heated by its eastward passage in the Equatorial Current ... while central and southern California, northwest Mexico and the southwestern ...28 KB (4,276 words) - 00:07, 13 February 2024
- Island. The Jason Islands lie to the northwest of the main archipelago ... the two principal islands and called the passage "Falkland Channel" ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- (on its southeast, northeast, and northwest sides) and Virginia (on ... the Potomac River are located upstream, northwest of Washington. During the ...39 KB (5,697 words) - 23:11, 3 May 2023
- 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
