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First Women of Jamestown
The first two women to arrive in Jamestown, Virginia were a Mrs. Forrest and Anne Burras. Burras, with others dined during the starving winter of 1609-10, on dogs, horses
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Starving Winter of 1609/1610
Starving Winter of 1609/1610 in Jamestown, Virginia: Women and others ate dogs, horses, rats, mice, and snakes to survive. One man ate his wife. First wedding and births
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Mail Order Brides in Jamestown
Jamestown is prospering and growing but the men need women. That problem is soon solved. Then the Indians attack.
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Making the Star-Spangled Banner
Some 350,000 hand-sewn stitches were used in making the wool bunting flag that would fly over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
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Patrick Henry Defends Randolphs
Nancy Randolph and Richard Randolph stand trial for the murder of their newborn child. Patrick Henry and John Marshall defend them.
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Settlers Return to Jamestown
The people of Jamestown are ready to call it quits when, in 1610, Lord Thomas West De la Warr arrives in Virginia to be governor. John Rolfe marries Pocahontas and introd
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One-Woman Show About Canadian Composer
Singer Kathleen Shimeta was so inspired by a one-woman show about suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she wrote her own show about composer Gena Branscombe.
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