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![William Dampier](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14958.jpg?v=1639537202)
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William Dampier
William Dampier (1651-1715) was an English explorer, navigator, and naturalist, who was the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He was also among the first Englishmen to step foot on Australian soil when he sailed into King...
![Plants Found in New Holland.](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14965.jpg?v=1638666082)
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Plants Found in New Holland.
Illustration of Australian plants found in New Holland (Australia) by William Dampier (1651-1715) - from Dampier's book A Voyage to New Holland (1703).
![Medieval Folklore](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/10122.jpg?v=1678181103)
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Medieval Folklore
Medieval folklore is a body of work, originally transmitted orally, which was composed between the 5th and 15th centuries in Europe. Although folktales are a common attribute of every civilization, and such stories were being told by cultures...
![Landing of English troops in Holland, 27 August 1799](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17386.jpg?v=1683749430)
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Landing of English troops in Holland, 27 August 1799
Landing of English troops in Holland on 27 August 1799 to partake in the ill-fated Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland during the War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802). Watercolor painting by Dirk Langendijk, 1799. Royal Museums, Greenwich...
![An Illustration from 'A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland' by William Dampier.](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14964.jpg?v=1638665673)
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An Illustration from 'A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland' by William Dampier.
Illustrations of fish off the coast of New Guinea in William Dampier's (1651-1715) book, A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland.
![Matthew Flinders](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/15071.jpg?v=1640926438)
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Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) was an English navigator and hydrographer. He was the first person to map the coastal outline of Australia in 1801-1803, following his circumnavigation of the 7.692 million square kilometres (2.96 million square...
![War of the Second Coalition](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17383.jpg?v=1684635069)
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War of the Second Coalition
The War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802), part of the broader French Revolutionary Wars, was the second attempt by an alliance of major European powers to defeat Revolutionary France. The Second Coalition, which included Russia, Austria...
![Tom Hopper as Billy Bones](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14628.png?v=1683651543)
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Tom Hopper as Billy Bones
Tom Hopper as the fictional pirate William "Billy Bones" Manderly in the TV series Black Sails. Billy Jones is a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.
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![What Caused the French Revolution? - Tom Mullaney](/uploads/kraked/6/6-2378_ci_preview.jpg)
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What Caused the French Revolution? - Tom Mullaney
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-caused-the-french-revolution-tom-mullaney What rights do people have, and where do they come from? Who gets to make decisions for others, and on what authority? And how can we organize society...
![Roman Citizenship](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1289.jpg?v=1706086984)
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Roman Citizenship
Citizenship is and always has been a valued possession of any individual. When one studies the majority of ancient empires one finds that the concept of citizenship, in any form, was non-existent. The people in these societies did not and...