Captain John Davis (born 1784 in Surrey, England) was an American sailor and seal hunter from Connecticut, United States. It is thought that he may have... 5 KB (409 words) - 16:11, 9 April 2024 |
entrepreneur John Davis (sealer) (1784–1???), English-born American who claimed to have first set foot on Antarctica John Bunnell Davis (1780–1824), English... 9 KB (1,219 words) - 17:05, 8 April 2024 |
Adare on 24 January 1895. It is possible that the Anglo-American sealer John Davis achieved this feat 74 years earlier, on 7 February 1821, but his journal... 4 KB (324 words) - 23:02, 26 July 2023 |
Miles Davis, Vol. 2 is the fifth 10-inch LP by trumpeter Miles Davis, recorded on April 20, 1953 and released on Blue Note later that year—his second session... 4 KB (265 words) - 23:49, 20 January 2024 |
The Gap Sealer is an album by saxophonist Jimmy Heath featuring performances recorded in 1972 and originally released on the Cobblestone label but rereleased... 2 KB (149 words) - 08:14, 29 October 2023 |
likely just over a year later when English-born American Captain John Davis, a sealer, set foot on the ice. Several expeditions attempted to reach the... 110 KB (11,853 words) - 16:33, 1 April 2024 |
disasters. The first was the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster, when 132 sealers were stranded on an ice floe, resulting in 78 deaths. The second was in... 12 KB (1,020 words) - 05:53, 24 April 2024 |