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96 relations: A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World, Acts of Union 1707, Alejandro Selkirk Island, Allan Cole, Ambush, Archaeology, Bab Ballads, Barrel, Basic Books, Bristol, Buccaneer, Cape Coast, Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, Caribbean Sea, Castaway, Chapman & Hall, Charles Dickens, Chris Bunch, Cinque Ports (1703 ship), Daniel Defoe, Dendroseris litoralis, Dover Publications, Dutch East Indies, Eduardo Frei Montalva, Feral cat, Feral goat, Fife, Google Maps, Guayaquil, Guayas River, Harvard University Press, Hatchet, Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Joshua Slocum, Juan Fernández Islands, King James Version, Kinsale, Letter of marque, Lima, Lower Largo, Manila galleon, Mariner's Mirror, Maritime pilot, Marooning, Master (naval), Master's mate, Middle latitudes, Musket, ..., Oxford University Press, Pacific Ocean, Patrick Kavanagh, Pink peppercorn, Plymouth, Prince George of Denmark, Privateer, Prize (law), Rat, Richard Steele, Robinson Crusoe, Robinson Crusoe Island, Rowman & Littlefield, Royal Navy, Sailing Alone Around the World, Santa María, Herrera, Schinus molle, Scurvy, Sea captain, Second mate, Session (Presbyterianism), Smithsonian (magazine), Southern elephant seal, Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación y Desengaño, Spiegel Online, Spiny lobster, Sten Adventures Book 2: The Wolf Worlds, Stop motion, The Downs (ship anchorage), The Pickwick Papers, The Scotsman, The Walt Disney Company, Thomas Dover, Thomas Jamieson Boyd, Thomas Stuart Burnett, Tim Severin, Tropical climate, Turnip, W. S. Gilbert, Walter Tournier, War of the Spanish Succession, William Cowper, William Dampier, Woodes Rogers, Yellow fever, 7 Sea Pirates. Expand index (46 more) »
A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World
A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World is a 1712 book by Edward Cooke, about a real-life trip around the world in two ships, under the command of Woodes Rogers.
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Acts of Union 1707
The Acts of Union were two Acts of Parliament: the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England, and the Union with England Act passed in 1707 by the Parliament of Scotland.
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Alejandro Selkirk Island
Alejandro Selkirk Island (Isla Alejandro Selkirk), previously known as Más Afuera (Farther Out (to Sea)) and renamed after the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk, is the largest and most westerly island in the Juan Fernández Archipelago of the Valparaíso Region of Chile.
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Allan Cole
Allan Cole (born 1943) is an American author and television writer, who has written or co-written nearly thirty books.
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Ambush
An ambush is a long-established military tactic in which combatants take advantage of concealment and the element of surprise to attack unsuspecting enemy combatants from concealed positions, such as among dense underbrush or behind hilltops.
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Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Bab Ballads
The Bab Ballads is a collection of light verses by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings.
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Barrel
A barrel, cask, or tun is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of wooden staves bound by wooden or metal hoops.
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Basic Books
Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1952 and located in New York, now an imprint of Hachette Books.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.
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Buccaneer
Buccaneers were a kind of privateer or free sailor peculiar to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Cape Coast
Cape Coast, or Cabo Corso, is a city, fishing port, and the capital of Cape Coast Metropolitan District and Central Region of south Ghana.
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Cape Horn
Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island.
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Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop, Kaap de Goede Hoop, Cabo da Boa Esperança) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
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Castaway
A castaway is a person who is cast adrift or ashore.
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Chapman & Hall
Chapman & Hall was a British publishing house in London, founded in the first half of the 19th century by Edward Chapman and William Hall.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
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Chris Bunch
Christopher R. "Chris" Bunch (22 December 1943 – 4 July 2005) was an American science fiction, fantasy and television writer, who wrote and co-wrote about thirty novels.
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Cinque Ports (1703 ship)
Cinque Ports was an English ship whose sailing master was Alexander Selkirk, generally accepted as a model for the fictional Robinson Crusoe.
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.
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Dendroseris litoralis
The cabbage tree, Dendroseris litoralis, is a species of evergreen, perennial species in the daisy and sunflower family (Asteraceae), with woody, tree-like stems, and rubbery leaves up to long.
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Dover Publications
Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche.
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Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies (or Netherlands East-Indies; Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Hindia Belanda) was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia.
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Eduardo Frei Montalva
Eduardo Nicanor Frei Montalva (January 16, 1911 – January 22, 1982) was a Chilean political leader.
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Feral cat
A feral cat is a cat that lives outdoors and has had little or no human contact.
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Feral goat
The feral goat is the domestic goat (Capra hircus) when it has become established in the wild.
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Fife
Fife (Fìobha) is a council area and historic county of Scotland.
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Google Maps
Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google.
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Guayaquil
Guayaquil, officially Santiago de Guayaquil (St.), is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, with around 2 million people in the metropolitan area, as well as the nation's main port.
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Guayas River
The Guayas River is a river in western Ecuador.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Hatchet
A hatchet (from the Old French hachete, a diminutive form of hache, 'axe' of Germanic origin) is a single-handed striking tool with a sharp blade on one side used to cut and split wood, and a hammer head on the other side.
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Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, GBE (née Isabel Maria Marjoribanks; 15 March 1857 – 18 April 1939) was a Scottish author, philanthropist, and an advocate of woman's interests.
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John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (3 August 1847 – 7 March 1934), known as The Earl of Aberdeen from 1870 to 1916, was a Scottish politician.
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Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world.
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Juan Fernández Islands
The Juan Fernández Islands (Archipiélago Juan Fernández) are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean.
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King James Version
The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.
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Kinsale
Kinsale (meaning "Tide Head") is a historic port and fishing town in County Cork, Ireland, which also has significant military history.
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Letter of marque
A letter of marque and reprisal (lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture enemy vessels.
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Lima
Lima (Quechua:, Aymara) is the capital and the largest city of Peru.
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Lower Largo
Lower Largo or Seatown of Largo is a village in Fife, Scotland, situated on Largo Bay along the north side of the Firth of Forth.
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Manila galleon
The Manila Galleons (Galeón de Manila; Kalakalang Galyon ng Maynila at Acapulco) were Spanish trading ships which for two and a half centuries linked the Philippines with Mexico across the Pacific Ocean, making one or two round-trip voyages per year between the ports of Acapulco and Manila, which were both part of New Spain.
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Mariner's Mirror
The Mariner's Mirror is the quarterly academic journal of the Society for Nautical Research in the United Kingdom.
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Maritime pilot
A maritime pilot, also known as a marine pilot, harbor pilot or bar pilot and sometimes simply called a pilot, is a sailor who maneuvers ships through dangerous or congested waters, such as harbors or river mouths.
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Marooning
Marooning is the intentional act of abandoning someone in an uninhabited area, such as a desert island.
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Master (naval)
The master, or sailing master, was a historical rank for a naval officer trained in and responsible for the navigation of a sailing vessel.
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Master's mate
Master's mate is an obsolete rating which was used by the Royal Navy, United States Navy and merchant services in both countries for a senior petty officer who assisted the master.
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Middle latitudes
The middle latitudes (also called the mid-latitudes, sometimes midlatitudes, or moderate latitudes) of Earth lie between 23°26'22" and 66°33'39" north, and between 23°26'22" and 66°33'39" south.
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Musket
A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore long gun that appeared in early 16th century Europe, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating heavy armor.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist.
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Pink peppercorn
A pink peppercorn (French: baie rose, "pink berry") is a dried berry of the shrub Schinus molle, commonly known as the Peruvian peppertree.
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Plymouth
Plymouth is a city situated on the south coast of Devon, England, approximately south-west of Exeter and west-south-west of London.
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Prince George of Denmark
Prince George of Denmark and Norway, Duke of Cumberland (Jørgen; 2 April 165328 October 1708), was the husband of Queen Anne, who reigned over Great Britain from 1702 to 1714.
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Privateer
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.
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Prize (law)
Prize is a term used in admiralty law to refer to equipment, vehicles, vessels, and cargo captured during armed conflict.
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Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents in the superfamily Muroidea.
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Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steele (bap. 12 March 1672 – 1 September 1729) was an Irish writer, playwright, and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Tatler.
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.
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Robinson Crusoe Island
Robinson Crusoe Island (Isla Róbinson Crusoe), formerly known as Más a Tierra (Closer to Land), is the second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands, situated west of San Antonio, Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Sailing Alone Around the World
Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray.
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Santa María, Herrera
Santa María is a corregimiento in Santa María District, Herrera Province, Panama with a population of 1,682 as of 2010.
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Schinus molle
Schinus molle (Peruvian pepper, also known as American pepper, Peruvian peppertree, escobilla, false pepper, molle del Peru, pepper tree, (Archived by) peppercorn tree, Californian pepper tree, pirul and Peruvian mastic) is an evergreen tree that grows to 15 meters (50 feet).
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Scurvy
Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
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Sea captain
A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner in ultimate command of the merchant vessel.
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Second mate
A second mate (2nd Mate) or second officer (2/O) is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship holding a Second Mates Certificate of Competency, which is issued by the administration.
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Session (Presbyterianism)
A session (from the Latin word sessio, which means "to sit", as in sitting to deliberate or talk about something; sometimes called consistory or church board) is a body of elected elders governing each local church within presbyterian polity.
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Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970.
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Southern elephant seal
The southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) is one of the two species of elephant seals.
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Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación y Desengaño
Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación y Desengaño, nicknamed Desengaño, was a Manila galleon which plied the trade routes between the Viceroyalty of New Spain and the Spanish Philippines.
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Spiegel Online
Spiegel Online (SPON) is one of the most widely read German-language news websites.
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Spiny lobster
Spiny lobsters, also known as langustas, langouste, or rock lobsters, are a family (Palinuridae) of about 60 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda Reptantia.
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Sten Adventures Book 2: The Wolf Worlds
The Wolf Worlds is the second book of The Sten Adventures by Chris Bunch and Allan Cole.
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Stop motion
Stop motion is an animated-film making technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they appear to exhibit independent motion when the series of frames is played back as a fast sequence.
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The Downs (ship anchorage)
The Downs are a roadstead (area of sheltered, favourable sea) in the southern North Sea near the English Channel off the east Kent coast, between the North and the South Foreland in southern England.
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The Pickwick Papers
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel.
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The Scotsman
The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
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Thomas Dover
Thomas Dover, M.D. (1660–1742), sometimes referred to as "Doctor Quicksilver", was an English physician.
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Thomas Jamieson Boyd
Sir Thomas Jamieson Boyd, (22 February 1818–22 August 1902) publisher and philanthropist, was Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1877 to 1882.
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Thomas Stuart Burnett
Thomas Stuart Burnett ARSA (4 July 1853 – 8 March 1888) was a Scottish sculptor in the 19th century.
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Tim Severin
Tim Severin (born 25 Sept 1940) is a British explorer, historian and writer.
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Tropical climate
A tropical climate in the Köppen climate classification is a non-arid climate in which all twelve months have mean temperatures of at least.
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Turnip
The turnip or white turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa) is a root vegetable commonly grown in temperate climates worldwide for its white, bulbous taproot.
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W. S. Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas.
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Walter Tournier
Walter Tournier (born July 14, 1944) is a Uruguayan director of animated and documentary films, who is closely identified with that country's enterprising filmmaking community.
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War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a European conflict of the early 18th century, triggered by the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700.
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William Cowper
William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist.
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William Dampier
William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; died March 1715) was an English explorer and navigator who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times.
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Woodes Rogers
Woodes Rogers (c. 1679 – 15 July 1732) was an English sea captain and privateer and, later, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas.
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Yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration.
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7 Sea Pirates
7 Sea Pirates (known in its original Spanish as Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, Selkirk, the real Robinson Crusoe) is a Uruguayan animated film made in cooperation with Argentina and Chile.
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