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scuttled his hopes to search instead for a Northwest Passage. ... that the ship had finally found a Northwest Passage through the continent ...

The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government ... that would become the basis for the Northwest Ordinance three years later. ...

Currently, the Tomb of the Patriarchs is oriented on a northwest-southeast ... dedicated to Jacob and Leah being on the northwest, and those to Abraham and ...

College for one year then transferred to Northwest Female College at Evanston ... Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition ...

in the U.S. Army. He was sent to the Northwest Territory, where he spent ... Army in 1798 to become Secretary of the Northwest Territory, and acted as ...

points, respectively. An important natural passage between the oceans, it is ... area is similar to those of the Inside Passage of Alaska. Southward from ...

===Traversing "the Northwest Passage"=== to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic ...

them through himself), were shepherded to passage by Democratic Senator Stephen ... trade in the District of Columbia, and the passage of a new fugitive slave ...

area in 1610 and 1611 while seeking a Northwest Passage to Asia. While his ... that the ship had finally found a Northwest Passage through the continent ...

formerly contributed huge amounts to the Northwest Pacific coasts. ... elk) that are native only to the Pacific Northwest coast. Because of this ...

leading an expedition to find the Northwest Passage, thought he had discovered ... Other explorers in search of the elusive Northwest Passage followed ...

Bay in 1576 while searching for the Northwest Passage. Many believe that ... 1622), an early seeker of the fabled Northwest Passage. However, the "discovery ...

la Plata some years later trying to find a passage in South America. ... the Atlantic seaboard for the elusive Northwest Passage that would enable maritime ...

*Northwest Passage (1940) *Edison, the Man (1940) *Boom Town (1940) *Men of Boys Town (1941) *Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) *Woman of the Year (1942) ...

of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... Oregon through southern Idaho into northwest Wyoming. Much of this plain ...

territories (the other two being the Northwest Territories and Nunavut ... northern route started in Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories along the Mackenzie ...

marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage; for centuries it has been ... It marks the north edge of the Drake Passage, the strait between South ...

Ocean has led to speculation that the Northwest Passage may become viable for ... 123835-3711r.htm “Northwest Passage redux.”] The Washington ...

used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest of what is now the United ... of his staff were former employees of the Northwest Company, known as Nor& ...

the Northern Sea Route or the Northwest Passage, to "Cathay" ... Passage, the Northern Sea Route and Northwest Passage, and bathymetry.png ...

and Turks and Caicos Islands lie to the northwest. Haiti occupies the western ... The island of Cuba lies to the northwest across the Windward Passage ...

Edward Parry in his voyage to find a northwestern passage to India. Throughout the mid-nineteenth century, tinned food became a status symbol ...

and the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, have significant ... used by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. The South American ...

a voyage to North America, looking for the Northwest Passage (1508), and one to repeat Magellan's voyage around the world, which ended up looking ...

William Dietrich, Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River (New ... * Dietrich, William. 1995. Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River ...

I of France, hoping to discover a western passage to the wealthy markets of ... ships. This time, any thought of finding a passage to the Orient was forgotten ...

leave unmistakable evidence of their passage through seafloor or continental crust. In the case of the Hawaiian hotspot, the islands themselves ...

Mick Wall, "Northwest Passage," Q: Nirvana and the Story ... * Wall, Mick. "Northwest Passage." Q: Nirvana and the Story ...

in this area helped pave the way for the passage of the Boldt Decision in ... of Deloria played a major role in the passage of important reform legislation ...

he must have had a family because of a passage in the Shoku Nihongi（続日本紀 ... This discovery, announced by the Northwest University in Xian, China ...

The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest ... Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--Northwest Fisheries Science Center ...

Cartier, who, in his search for a northwest passage to the Orient sailed ... on the St. Lawrence were enlarged for the passage of larger boats; the construction ...

Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang in northwest China, the desert wasteland ... caravans. With no security for a safe passage, the Takla Makan entered ...

into three portions: the northeast arm, northwest arm, and southern. This ... Cub, and Strongs Knob are in the northwest arm, and the rest are in ...

the Islamabad Capital Territory—to the northwest of Rawalpindi and on the ... attended by thousands, celebrating the passage of his bones through Taxila ...

had made an amphibious landing in the northwest part of Singapore, near ... control of the ridge, it gave them direct passage to the Alexandra area. The ...

Mackinac Straits, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. [https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/the-explorers/jean-nicollet ...

in the Xinjiang and Tsinghai regions of northwest China, and another 205 ... as bäki around Lake Baikal. In one famous passage the Oirat chief, Quduqa ...

located about 545 km (340 mi) west-northwest of Yangon, Burma.Joint ... in Arakan.] Retrieved July 2, 2008. The passage of Cyclone Akash left many ...

, was away at the war front in the northwest. Some historians say this ... === Military expansion in the northwest === [[Image:The Yongzheng Emperor ...

with the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. During the two-year overland ... numerous plans to explore the Pacific Northwest. In 1785, Jefferson learned ...

Pennsylvania. From Pittsburgh, it flows northwest through Allegheny and Beaver ... The river then follows a roughly southwest and then west-northwest ...

consisted of what is now the Pacific Northwest of the United States and ... April 1846 that both houses complied. The passage was delayed (especially ...

Valley of Flowers National Park to the northwest, UNESCO designated the ... of arduous exploration in search of a passage into the Sanctuary. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

ceremonies and significant rite of passage. Thus, they resisted strongly ... The coming of age rite of passage is celebrated differently by boys ...

tropical water, heated by its eastward passage in the Equatorial Current ... while central and southern California, northwest Mexico and the southwestern ...

Island. The Jason Islands lie to the northwest of the main archipelago ... the two principal islands and called the passage "Falkland Channel" ...

(on its southeast, northeast, and northwest sides) and Virginia (on ... the Potomac River are located upstream, northwest of Washington. During the ...

the Wisconsin Enabling Act, and the Northwest Ordinance. ... of the antislavery provisions of the Northwest Ordinance passed by the ...

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 ...

in his expeditions to discover the Northwest Passage landed on Baffin Island in 1576, where he encountered an Inuit igloo village. ...

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. ...

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 ...

Land"); in various parts of the Northwest Territories, mainly on ... Martin Frobisher's 1576 search for the Northwest Passage was ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

of meters. The turbulence following the passage of an active front is composed ... of Western Canada and the American Northwest, the Swiss föhn, California ...

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 ...

city and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... in 1985, is the tallest building in the Pacific Northwest ...

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 ...

, the Tunica, and the Koroa. Central and northwest Louisiana was home to a ... (along the Red River in present-day northwest Louisiana) was established ...

of Life who granted our forefathers safe passage to this land, who gives ... returned from his search for the Northwest Passage, avoiding the later ...

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 ...

Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" ... The passage bears striking similarities to a Canaanite text (see below ...

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 ...

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 ...

The passage of a tropical cyclone over the ocean can cause the upper ... Center. Retrieved June 18, 2020. The Northwest Pacific sees tropical cyclones ...

brought the decline of the overland passage. ===Arrival of Islam=== ... the Shi’a, found in the north and northwest, and the Sunni, who live ...

explore the Chesapeake Bay. In quest of the Northwest passage, Ayllon sailed north from Hispaniola in 1524, and tried the James River and Chesapeake ...

buttery and offices are reached by a passage from the west end of the ... the little village of Cluny, 12 miles northwest of Macon, near which, about ...

departed to renew his search for a Northwest Passage. In 1614, the ... seen from the Providence area, stretching northwest following the Blackstone ...

he aimed at finding an easterly northern passage to the Orient via the North ... and the town of Haverstraw in the Northwest. Haverstraw Bay is a popular ...

corner, at 3,125 feet (952 m). In the northwest are the Absaroka, Owl Creek ... The Teton Range in the northwest extends for 50 miles (80 km) and ...

in contact with divine illuminations. In a passage re-living a historical period ... Empire, the formation of a consolidated Northwest Indian Muslim state appears ...

the Shuyuhalsh, a five-night dance rite of passage for adolescent girls. A ... region, but with influences from the Northwest Coast, the Great Basin ...

The cult in Athens is located at the northwest corner of the bustling ... seem to suggest that Aphrodite offers safe passage from virginity to life as ...

latter is emphasized as consistent with a passage from Isaiah 60:6; "And ... Sheba as a ruler of a trading colony in Northwest Arabia, established by ...

In this passage, he offers both instruction on the proper manner of ... Syria today. It is located about 30 km northwest of Aleppo and consists ...

notifying his parents. He took steerage passage on the Devonian in part ... which went on a tour of the Pacific Northwest in that year. ...

rising to a plateau and then in the northwest to the Kittatinny Mountains ... from High Point State Park in the northwest corner to the Pine Barrens ...

southwest, and the Sunshine Coast to the northwest.[http://vancouver.ca/aboutvan ... Roch, the first vessel to sail the Northwest Passage and to circumnavigate ...

Dara, chasing him across what is now northwest India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan ... Aurangzeb pushed into the northwest—into Punjab, and what is now ...

corner of present day Sixth Street Northwest and Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., a site that is now occupied by the National Gallery ...

The northwest remainder of the state is made up of a section of the ... Not until the late 1960s, following passage of the federal Voting Rights ...

of the south, to 35 inches (900 mm) in the far northwest. ... greater part of their lands prior to the passage of the Kansas territorial ...

The Doukhobors' passage across the Atlantic Ocean was largely ... "reserves" were located in the Northwest Territories: Saskathewan ...

near modern-day Green Bay in search of a passage to the Orient. The French ... Wisconsin was part of the Northwest Territory from 1788 to 1800. It ...

it could be pulled out through the nasal passage. The embalmers would then ... mummies were discovered in a cemetery northwest of Mexico City (near Léon ...

California to the United States. After passage of the federal Homestead ... These prevailing summer winds from the northwest push the warm ocean surface ...

Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. Greenland has ... the land that was rumored to be to the northwest. After settling there, ...

peninsulas. Sir Richard Peninsula on the northwest separates the Goolwa channel ... and Red Cliffs. Each lock has a navigable passage next to it through the weir ...

of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, and Cambodia to the southwest ... lowlands, the Annamite Chain (running northwest to southeast along the ...

50,000 members, concentrated in the Northwest, among dock workers, agricultural ... both in the Deep South and the Pacific Northwest of the United States and ...

by a German lieutenant in what was then northwest Tanganyika, was that 90 ... cutting (FGC) in an elaborate rite of passage ritual in which they are ...

in the north and the Thar Desert in the northwest. The Himalayas act as a ... around 10–15 °C (50–59 °F) in the northwest; temperatures rise as one ...

the Volgograd Oblast in the west and the northwest, respectively. Its eastern ... to revive the Kalmyk language, such as passage of laws regarding the usage ...

in the McLean, Virginia, a few miles northwest from downtown Washington ... The Central Intelligence Agency was created by Congress with passage ...

skirmish. As in the Revolution and the Northwest Indian War, after the War ... The process was further accelerated with the passage of the Indian ...

إبليس (shaitan), derive from a Northwest Semitic root ... sin of taking a census of Israel. In this passage, it appears that Satan is ...

topography, parent material, and the passage of time. An example of ... erosion in the Loess Plateau region of northwest China. The Taquiri River ...

The commentator Servius's use of the passage (in R. Maltby, Lexicon of ... *La Condamine, the northwest section including the port area ...

Strait of Gibraltar, it has power over the passage in and out of the Mediterranean ... the Mediterranean, running from the northwest to the northeast. Farther ...

is a blessing of the area and a rite of passage for youths becoming men ... *Miller, Eric. 1994. [http://www.dreric.org/library/northwest.shtml ...

Pacific Ocean. It serves a vital role as a sea passage route to Beijing, having historically been an important fort and doorway to the capital city. ...

settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea) ... A successful identification of this fragment as a passage from Mark ...

Religious Freedom," and he regarded passage of this bill as a high achievement ... Jefferson's draft of what became the Northwest Ordinance stipulated that ...

States of America located in the extreme northwest portion of the North American ... expedition, with orders to locate the Northwest Passage and search for gold ...

international opinion. The result was the passage of the Civil Rights Act ... wide-scale outrage and resulted in the passage of the Voting Rights Act ...

On the passage to America, Wesley and company continued their Holy ... in a series of the turning points in his passage from don to missionary to ...

Waziristan region, plus the Charkai River passage south of Khowst, Afghanistan ... The Arab Abbasids conquered the northwest section of Afghanistan ...

The Canadian Rockies consist of several northwest-southeast trending ... was fixed at 2,586 square miles, with the passage of the Canadian National ...

by Quebec, Canada to the north and northwest; Maine and the Atlantic ... a canal and lock system to allow vessels passage around the Amoskeag Falls ...

A Hurrian passage in the Amarna letters--usually composed in Akkadian ... Iryn (maybe present day Erin, 20 km northwest of Aleppo.) They sailed ...

known to have migrated southward from the Northwest. "Chital Singh Chatri ... into three main categories, rites of passage, calendrical rites and crisis ...

and some groups can be found along the Northwest Pacific Coast. ... Apache bands promised U.S. soldiers safe passage through their lands. In ...

People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia ... strong family bonds. A key rite of passage for Buddhist males is to ...

forts around the Great Lakes known as the Northwest Territory. The treaty remained ... the prohibition of slavery in the Northwest Territory, writing to his ...

Greylock at 3,491 feet near the state's northwest corner. ... better land in western New York and the Northwest Territories soon put the ...

Born in Harpurhey, Manchester in northwest England, he lived and worked ... (Burmese Days), Forster's of India (A Passage to India) and Greene's ...

The Sierran Arc started to form to the northwest from heat and pressure ... km²) and redesignated a national park by passage of the Desert Protection ...

Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, Northwest Passage, and areas around Machias Seal Island and North Rock with Canada. CIA World Factbook ...

which took a different route through northwest China, was largely destroyed ... boats blockaded the islands to prevent the passage of ROC supply ships. Though ...

(Кувшиново), in Tver guberniya, northwest of Moscow, Russia. At the ... issued him with a letter giving him passage on all ships on the river ...

an increasing density of population; the Northwest, now known as the Midwest ... return fugitive slaves, and assured easy passage of many bills and amendments ...

the O'Shaughnessy Dam in 1913 through passage of the Raker Act. ... and very deep cracks trend northeast or northwest and form parallel, often ...

Spain was also responsible for the safe passage of 45,000-60,000+ Jews. ... the Nazis, invaded the Val d'Aran in northwest Catalonia, but they were ...

The cities were fortified to allow safe passage for Japanese reinforcements ... city Busan, Konishi's troops moved northwest to where the Dongnae fortress ...

across five geographical regions. In the northwest is the Baltic seacoast ... temperatures around 37.4°F (3°C) in the northwest and 17.6°F (–8°C) in ...

truce and prisoner exchange. Although the Northwest Indian War escalated and ... of the woods," comparing Boone's passage through the Cumberland Gap ...

and on 17 March 2011 led to the passage of United Nations Security ... at the Northwood Headquarters in the northwest suburbs of London. JFC ...

This was nearly 3 kilometers (2 miles) northwest of the planned hypocenter; ... and the Christian Faith, includes the following passage: ...

and also the Arcadian Achaeans to the northwest. The evidence suggests ... #039;s hair was perhaps part of a rite of passage that signalled her entrance ...

Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum, by passage of the Lex Vatinia. When ... from the Veneti, a group of tribes in northwest Gaul, but the Veneti resisted ...

first been used by loggers in the Pacific Northwest to describe following home ... public interest in Prohibition and in the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment ...

*1903: Ship Gjoa transits the ice-filled Northwest Passage, aided with a Dan kerosene engine. *1904: French build the first diesel submarine, the Z. ...

Ireland, Haida carvings from the Pacific Northwest region of North America ... spirit—sacrifice her life. In the last passage, Tagore directly attacks ...

hour ultimatum, in which he demanded free passage for troops to occupy unspecified ... Wilson, who established his headquarters northwest of Larissa. The New Zealand ...

The bays tend to be oval, lining up in a northwest to southeast orientation. ... for the support of public education. The passage of a recent state law will ...

relocated to Lakhta, a historical area northwest of the city centre, and ... governor the same day. In 2012, following passage of a new federal law,url ...

Malaspina an order to search for a Northwest Passage. The Spanish empire had still not returned to first rate power status, but it had recovered ...

with some mountainous terrain in the northwest (Cambrian Mountains of ... average mortality rate during the middle passage was one in seven. ...

leaving remains of beehive huts and passage graves. ===Celtic societies=== ... dependency of the Kingdom of León in the northwest Iberia, Portucale occasionally ...