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it would be his two brothers, Henry and David, who would open up the Moluccas. Both were now serving under Lancaster; and both would eventually join brother John in an eastern grave.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Edmund Scot who came aboard from the Bantam factory. His ‘extraordinarie
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
John Macdonald (1741–96), a Scottish Highlander, was a famous footman who wrote memoirs of his experiences in service. An orphan who had been sacked from a previous job rocking a baby’s cradle, Macdonald found work in a gentleman’s house turning the spit. He was aged just five.
Bee Wilson • Consider the Fork
I deduced that Johanna was probably an Alice. You can learn a lot by observing how people hang out with their friends. She laughed like a hyena, and they were obsessing over some obscure book, and they were so raw and cute. I’d never been as intrigued by a human being before.
Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice
Captain John Smith, for example, used Columbus as a role model in proposing a get-tough policy for the Virginia Indians in 1624:
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Who was Samuel and why was he important?
Kelvin McCune • Theology For Practical Christian Living
Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812
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