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Pocahontas
Pocahontas , c.1595-1617, Native North American woman, daughter of Chief Powhatan . Pocahontas, meaning "playful one" (her real name was said to be Matoaka), used to visit the English in Virginia at Jamestown. According to the famous story, she saved the life of the captured Capt. John Smith ... Read more |
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Walt Disney
Walt Disney (Walter Elias Disney) , 1901-66, American movie producer and pioneer in animated cartoons, b. Chicago. He grew up in Missouri, in the small town of Marceline and in Kansas City. He moved to Chicago in 1917, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and began (1920) his career as a... Read more |
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John Gadsby Chapman
John Gadsby Chapman 1808-90, American painter, b. Alexandria, Va. Chapman is noted for his colored etchings of the Roman compagna and the American landscape. His historical painting The Baptism of Pocahontas is in the Capitol in Washington, D.C.... Read more |
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Powhatan
Powhatan , d. 1618, Native North American chief of the Powhatan tribe in Virginia, whose personal name was Wahunsonacock. He greatly extended the dominion of the Powhatan Confederacy and after the marriage (1614) of his daughter Pocahontas to John Rolfe kept peace with the English colonists.... Read more |
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Walt Disney Company
Walt Disney Company 500 South Buena Vista StreetBurbank, California 91521U.S.A.(818) 560-1000Fax: (818) 840-1930 Public Company Incorporated: 1938 as Walt Disney ProductionsEmployees: 58,000Sales: $6.18 billionStock Exchanges: New York Pacific Midwest Tokyo A colossal force in the... Read more |
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company 500 South Buena Vista Street Burbank, California 91521 U.S.A. Telephone: (818) 560-1000 Fax: (818) 840-1930 Web site: http://www.disney.com Public Company Incorporated: 1938 as Walt Disney Productions Employees: 117,000 Sales: $27.06 billion (2003) Stock... Read more |
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George Washington Parke Custis
George Washington Parke Custis 1781-1857, American dramatist, b. Mt. Airy, Md., educated at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton). The grandson of Martha Washington, he grew up at Mt. Vernon and became heir to part of the Washington estate. He wrote several plays, including The Indian Prophecy... Read more |
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John Rolfe
John Rolfe , 1585-1622, English colonist in Virginia. He reached the colony in May, 1610, and introduced (1612) the regular cultivation of tobacco, which became Virginia's staple. A widower, he fell in love with and married (1614) Pocahontas , daughter of the Native American chief Powhatan . They... Read more |
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Gravesham
Gravesham , city and district (1991 est. pop. 90,000), Kent, SE England, on the Thames River. Industries include shipbuilding, metal casting, engineering, paper making, printing, and the production of tires, rubber products, and cement. Known as the "gateway to the Port of London," the city has... Read more |
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Children Teens and Money
Chapter 2: Children, Teens, and Money FAMILY INCOMECHILDREN IN POVERTYCHILD SUPPORTTEENS AND MONEY FAMILY INCOME Almost all children are financially dependent on their parents, with their financial condition directly dependent on how much their parents earn. Carmen DeNavas-Walt,... Read more |
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Barker, James Nelson
...Sauvage (1808), recounted the legend of Pocahontas with a happy ending. It was thus the first...presented in London, where it was offered as Pocahontas. Barker's Marmion; or, The Battle...Nootka Sound (1817) was based on the real‐life adventures of John Jewitt... |
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Eggleston, Edward
...of Metropolisville (1873), a melodramatic novel about a real‐estate boom in Minnesota; The Circuit Rider (1874), about...juvenile biographies of such Indian figures as Tecumseh (1878), Pocahontas and Powhatan (1879), and Montezuma (1880), as well as... |
 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Lakota Dance or Pocahontas?; The real thing at Ordway; Disney version at...
...Smith, the English adventurer saved by Pocahontas - most recently in the Disney movie...the time the 27-year-old Smith met Pocahontas, his accounts of Indian dance are heavy...representation in the past and, in "Pocahontas," tried to compensate for its past... |
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Yes, Virginia, This Pocahontas Is for Real; 'New World' Spotlights Plucky...
...s much-acclaimed "New World" -- his fourth film in 32 years -- the home-schooled ninth-grader plays a sinuous Pocahontas to then-29-year-old Colin Farrell's grizzled John Smith. She even gets to kiss Farrell -- yes, her first kiss... |
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NOVA EXPLORES REAL POCAHONTAS ON 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF JAMESTOWN
...tale heroine, but who was the real Pocahontas? As the U.S. marks the 400th...Virginia, NOVA investigates the Pocahontas story and reveals an entirely...helped found the nation in NOVA: Pocahontas Revealed, airing on Maryland... |
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MEDIA WATCH: The real Pocahontas, Part II
...22-1995 Media WATCH: The real Pocahontas, part II.The native peoples...During the years that followed, Pocahontas, living among the Patawomekes...stay among the Patawomekes, Pocahontas was rumored to have married or... |
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MEDIA WATCH: The real Pocahontas
...15-1995 MEDIA WATCH: The real Pocahontas.To begin with, the first English...Jamestown, Va., in 1607, Pocahontas's father was the great Algonquin...was called for. And strategy. Pocahontas was not the first to make contact... |
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The Real Pocahontas? // `Biography Offers' Facts, Guesses
Biography: Pocahontas (STAR)(STAR) A&E cable channel...historians complain about inaccuracies in "Pocahontas," Disney's latest animated musical...at 7 tonight with the premiere of "Pocahontas: Ambassador of the New World... |
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America saved by little girl; The real story of Pocahontas is more exciting...
...still learn the story of 11-year-old Pocahontas intervening with her father, Chief...complicated than the popular tale. Pocahontas and John Smith were never in love...At this point, according to Smith, Pocahontas made her dramatic appeal for his life... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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REAL FACE BEHIND POCAHONTAS LEGEND.(LIFE & LEISURE)
``Pocahontas: Ambassador to the New World'' (7 a.m. Monday, A&E) tells...students in grade 5 to 10 -- especially those whose only knowledge of Pocahontas' role in history is based on the Disney musical. Here are the rest... |
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Real 1950s word man? Pocahontas woman, 96.
POCAHONTAS - For the better part of 60 years, Dorothy Bates was the "word man." As Lee Keith, she wrote books during the 1950s to help... |
 "The Economist (US)")
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History's babe.(film 'Pocahontas' may bring visitors to burial site of the...
THE Disney film "Pocahontas" is already a hit in America. If it does...east of London, Gravesend is where the real Pocahontas lies buried. Daughter of an Algonkian Indian chief, Pocahontas befriended the first English settlers at... |
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