Word: colonists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...island of Hispaniola, the wooden ship ground into a coral reef known today as Silver Shoals. The admiral and much of his crew floated to shore on rafts lashed together from the debris, but the ship's rich cargo sank beneath the waves. Just 46 years later, Colonist William Phips, born of a poor Maine family, found the Concepción and hauled up 32 tons of silver from the barnacle-encrusted wreck. In return for one-fifth of the find, a grateful King James II of England knighted his noble servant and made him Governor of the Massachusetts...
...this point, our Colonist redux took a long, deep breath before continuing...
Publishing is by no means the only field in which American women have made significant contributions. Agriculture, for example, has profited immensely by women's innovations. Elinor Laurens of Ansonborough, South Carolina, became the first colonist to cultivate a wide variety of exotic fruits and vegetables-including olives, capers, limes, ginger, guinea grass and Alpine strawberries. The most exceptional female planter, however, is Mrs. Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 53, also of South Carolina. When only a girl, managing her absent father's large plantation with what one friend called "a fertile brain for scheming," Eliza decided to start cultivating...
...pale fellow sporting the Indian loincloth is Irish Actor Richard Harris, 45, all painted up for his role in The Return of a Man Called Horse. In the movie, a sequel to A Man Called Horse (1970), the actor plays an 18th century colonist who leaves America and returns to England, dislikes what he sees, then comes back to the colonies to live among the natives. Apparently the trip is quite enough for Harris. "We wrote a scene at the end in which he's old and he dies," Harris says of his character. "One Horse is all right...
...PHOENIX REPERTORY COMPANY O`Neils The Great God Brown opens Monday, at 7:30 p.m. at the Colonist, in repertory with Mollere's Don Juan, opening Tuesday...