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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana 1 1 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mayflower log. (search)
Mayflower log. The Mayflower Society of Massachusetts, through Ambassador Bayard, petitioned the British government for the return to the United States of the log of the ship Mayflower, upon which the Pilgrims sailed for this country in 1620. Queen Victoria favored the society's request, and the relic was returned in June, 1897, and given into the keeping of the governor of Massachusetts. See Bradford, William; Plymouth, New.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Zionists, (search)
help each other. The best course is to colonize Palestine. It will take about $100,000,000 to carry out the work, and the money is to be raised from the Jews themselves. Every Jew in the world is to be asked to contribute at least 25 cents a year. If successful, the association will plant 5,000,000 Jews in Palestine; and each family must be provided with land, horse, cow, and implements of agriculture. The following extract from an official report by United States Consul Germain, in June, 1897, shows what had been quietly accomplished up to that time: The settlements founded by Russian and Rumanian Jewish exiles in the last decade were at first confined to Samarin, to-day called Sichron-Ja'akob, and Rosch-Pinah, in Galilee. Like all new enterprises, this one was subjected to many drawbacks. The colonists, formerly merchants or artisans, were inexperienced in their new occupation, and had no one to advise them. Mistakes in the selection and cultivation of the soil, and subsequ