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...population advantage back home began to take effect after 1610, when a reorganized Jamestown colony with better supply lines began to establish satellite settlements on Powhatan farmland. The squatters, as the Powhatan saw them, became so numerous that they could not be repelled. Even all-out war, which raged twice, did not stanch the flow of invaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Side | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...drought during the first seven years of the colony. This meant they were dependent on bartering or seizing supplies from local Indians, whose own stores were depleted. The settlers who died of disease or starvation had to be replaced by new settlers from England, who arrived once or twice a year (their ranks increasingly included women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamestown: Inventing America | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...time he would save the expedition from extinction. First, though, he would be imprisoned by his fellow adventurers, sentenced twice to hang, and spared from ritual Algonquian execution by an enchanting woodlands princess whose memory would haunt him the rest of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Captain John Smith | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...took him another 10 years of slow, patient work, Kelso eventually managed to map out the triangle shape of the fort along with the foundations of at least five buildings, several wells and a burial ground. His team has also dug up more than a million artifacts, about twice the number found over the previous half-century, including arms and armor, pottery, clay pipes, clothing and shoes, iron tools, jewelry, animal bones, trade beads, sheets of copper and hundreds of stone points. Individually, these objects seem trivial. Taken together, however, they're yielding an extraordinary picture of who the colonists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamestown: Archaeology: Eureka! | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...addition to Schoen’s multi-point game, junior Caroline Simmons found the back of the net twice and recorded one assist. Sophomore Kaitlin Martin, who leads the team with 35 goals, similarly scored two goals while sophomore Sarah Bancroft, freshman Sara Flood, and junior Ali Hines each scored once...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Finishes in Style | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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