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| Ben Nevis |
the name of the ship that landed in Galveston, Texas in 1854 with a congregation of approximately 500 Slavic immigrants who sought freedom from cultural oppression and religious persecution. [1/2 definitions] |
| Christopher Columbus |
an Italian navigator and explorer, and leader of the Spanish expedition that landed in America in 1492 (b.1451?--d.1506). |
| Continental Congress |
the revolutionary assembly, made up of landed representatives of the American colonies, that met between 1774 and 1789 to work out a plan of government and adopted both the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. |
| estate |
a landed property, usu. large and having a sizable house connected to it. [1/4 definitions] |
| manor |
a landed estate and its main residence; mansion. |
| mansion |
a house on a landed estate; manor house. [1/2 definitions] |
| meteorite |
a piece of rock originating from asteroids in outer space that has come through Earth's atmosphere and landed on the surface of this planet. |
| overseer |
a person in charge of running and maintaining a property such as a plantation or landed estate. [1/2 definitions] |
| Provincetown |
a U.S. town at the tip of Cape Cod in southeastern Massachusetts where English settlers called the Pilgrims first landed in 1620 before sailing to and settling at Plymouth. |
| ramp |
the paved area around the buildings of an airport where planes are landed and loaded or unloaded. [1/7 definitions] |
| San Salvador |
an island of the eastern Bahamas, where Columbus probably first landed in the Western Hemisphere in 1492. [1/2 definitions] |
| surfboat |
a boat with high ends that can be launched or landed in heavy breaking waves. |
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