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Wake Island Wake Island
Wake Island atoll with three islets (Wake, Wilkes, and Peale), 3 sq mi (7.8 sq km), central Pacific, between Hawaii and Guam. It is a U.S. military base and scientific research center under the jurisdiction of the Dept. of the Interior and the U.S. Air Force. There is no indigenous population. Wake... Read more
Hereward the Wake Hereward the Wake
Hereward the Wake , fl. 1070, Anglo-Saxon rebel against William I . A thane, he apparently held land in Lincolnshire. In 1070 he sacked Peterborough with the aid of a Danish fleet and then consolidated his forces on the Isle of Ely. After William captured (1071) the island, Hereward seems to have... Read more
Gomorrah Gomorrah
Gomorrah or Gomorrha , in the Bible, city, destroyed with Sodom . Some have speculated that the ruins southeast of the Dead Sea at Numeira, discovered in 1973, may be those of the city.... Read more
Neanderthal Neanderthal
Neanderthal , small valley, W Germany, E of Düsseldorf. In 1856 the remains of Neanderthal man were discovered there.... Read more
Hereward Hereward
Hereward (11th cent.), known as ‘the Wake’ (‘the watchful one’) was the leading figure in the fenland revolt against William the Conqueror. In 1070, the appearance of a Danish fleet in the waters of Ely raised hopes of resistance among Englishmen of that district, many of... Read more
Burramyidae Burramyidae
Burramyidae (order Diprotodontia (or Marsupialia), superfamily Phalangeroidea) A family of mouse-sized Australian possums, including the ground-dwelling Burramys, known first as a fossil and discovered to be living in 1967.... Read more
Helen Brooke Toussig Helen Brooke Toussig
Helen Brooke Taussig Physician Helen Brooke Taussig discovered a surgical procedure for treating "blue babies." She proved that "blue babies" died of insufficient circulation rather than cardiac arrest, as had been previously thought. Physician and cardiologist Helen Brooke Taussig spent her... Read more
Henrietta Leavitt Henrietta Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) was an American astronomer of the first magnitude. Her research resulted in numerous advances within the field, the effects of which extended well beyond her lifetime. She discovered a means to rank stars's magnitudes using photographic... Read more
Bering Bering
Bering or Behring, Vitus (1681–1741), Danish explorer, born at Horsem, Jutland. He entered the Russian Navy in 1704 and served in it during Russia's war with Sweden. In 1725 Peter the Great, who was looking to expand his empire, sent him to discover whether Asia and North America were... Read more

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Lost legend lives on; Out of the mists of time, Hereward the Wake's home town.
Newspaper article from: Daily Mail (London) ...is the lost home of Hereward the Wake, the rebel who defied...the site which, in Hereward's time, would have...Legend has it that Hereward the Wake lived in the...1070, when the newly discovered village would have been...
Stumbling into respectability; Tony Booth was an actor from the old school -...
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) ...especially when it comes to politicalideals,as Booth discovered when his daughter Cherie married young Booth Blair...the blarney and stories to thrill a boyish mind about Hereward the Wake, the Vikings, the disastrous Normans, the Peasants...

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