• The Northwest Passage was a bi-weekly underground newspaper in Bellingham, Washington, which was published from March 17, 1969 to June 1986. The paper...
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  • Spencer Tracy and Robert Young Northwest Passage (newspaper), an underground newspaper of the 1960s The North-West Passage, an 1874 painting by John Everett...
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    and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine...
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  • Northwest Passage is an historical novel by Kenneth Roberts, published in 1937. Told through the eyes of primary character Langdon Towne, much of the...
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    The Inside Passage (French: Passage Intérieur) is a coastal route for ships and boats along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the...
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    Northwest Passage is a 1958–59 26-episode half-hour adventure television series produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer about Major Robert Rogers during the time...
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    fur trading, and exploration for new trade routes, including the Northwest Passage. Arctic expeditions launched in the 19th century include the Coppermine...
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    Irish explorer who explored the Arctic. In 1854 he traversed the Northwest Passage by boat and sledge, and was the first to circumnavigate the Americas...
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  • of the Northwest Passage. The earliest version of the story so far traced by Meyer appeared 13 December 1828 in a Philadelphia-based newspaper named The...
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    near the Bering Strait. Some thought it might be the west end of the Northwest Passage. Where this idea came from is unknown. de Fuca: In 1592 Juan de Fuca...
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    During his third and final expedition, an attempt to traverse the Northwest Passage in 1845, Franklin's ships became icebound off King William Island...
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  • 2004, http://www.northwestu.edu Northwest University Passages, Passages, Fall 2007, p.9 (password = passages) Northwest University News Article, http://www...
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    to 1906, he led the first expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage on the sloop Gjøa. In 1909, Amundsen began planning for a South Pole...
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    Shanghai tunnels (category Northwest Portland, Oregon)
    streets when delivering their goods. The newspapers of the 19th century document tunnels and secret passages underground. Organized crime was the center...
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  • school history for basketball. The school newspaper is The Northwest Passage and the yearbook is The Lair. The Passage, Lair, and the journalism website have...
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  • 12-string guitar in his performances. His best-known songs include "Northwest Passage", "Barrett's Privateers", "The Mary Ellen Carter", "Make and Break...
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    region around the modern New York metropolitan area. Looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia on his ship Halve Maen ("Half Moon"), he sailed up the Hudson...
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    typically called a channel or passage. Described here are the channels between the islands of Hawaiʻi, arranged from northwest to southeast. The Kaulakahi...
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    objective was to evaluate the Russian penetration of Alaska, search for a Northwest Passage, and capture James Cook if they found him in Spanish waters. Spain...
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    Carrying-Place Trail, also known as the Humber Portage and the Toronto Passage, was a major portage route in Ontario, Canada, linking Lake Ontario with...
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    explorer Martin Frobisher. While leading an expedition to find the Northwest Passage, Frobisher thought he had discovered gold ore around the body of water...
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    The Helix was an American biweekly newspaper founded in 1967 after a series of organizational meetings held at the Free University of Seattle involving...
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    Brown's passage, Candlemas Isl., Shackleton's passage, Saunders Isl., Larsen's passage, Montagu Isl., Biscoe's passage, Bristol Isl., Forsters Passage, Southern...
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    was never the actress I wanted to be." Her film career ended with Northwest Passage (1940). McPhail's first husband was Lindsay McPhail, a pianist and...
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  • a signature achievement of Trump's time in office so far, through its passage in December 2017. The nomination is lampooned by some political commentators...
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    playing Bart Adams in The Hunter (1954),: 487  Brave Eagle (1955), Northwest Passage (1958) (in which he starred as Major Robert Rogers),: 772  and The...
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    among the voyageurs involved in the actual trading with natives. In the northwest, the Company expanded its operations as far north as Great Bear Lake,...
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    the issue, but even if it was, Haro Strait was the wider and more direct passage. Finally, he challenged Prevost to produce any evidence showing that the...
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    Canol Road (category Roads in the Northwest Territories)
    wrote a song referencing Canol Road, with it appearing on his album Northwest Passage. The song details a man who tries to escape the police on Canol Road...
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    To the northwest, it connects with the Gulf of Aden, to the northeast with the Arabian Sea and to the south with the Somali sea. The passage contains...
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