• Drake's Plate of Brass is a forgery that purports to be the brass plaque that Francis Drake posted while anchored in Drake's Bay in Northern California...
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    Francis Drake's circumnavigation, also known as Drake's Raiding Expedition, was an important historical maritime event that took place between 15 December...
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  • smaller pieces of physical and documentary evidence lead to the identity of Drake's landing site. Scholars find uncertainty over Drake's landing site "a...
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  • Landfall, the Plate of Brass, "Drake's Cup," and Cermeño's 1595 wreck at Drake's Bay. The Guild has researched and identified Drake's North American...
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    New Albion (category Francis Drake)
    on the continent. Drake's landing site has been identified as Drake's Cove, which is part of Point Reyes National Seashore. Drake, after successfully...
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    New Albion Tomales Bay Drake's Plate of Brass Camp Hydle List of National Historic Landmarks in California "Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties:...
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  • E Clampus Vitus (category History of California)
    so-called Drake's Plate of Brass was accepted as authentic for forty years, yet was in actuality a hoax initiated by Dane that got out of control. It...
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  • Helen Vaughn Michel (category University of California, Berkeley alumni)
    Laboratory at the University of California (Berkeley) is particularly noteworthy as it includes the dating of Drake's Plate of Brass as well as the Alvarez...
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    of purported Native American origin, but dubious authenticity Drake's Plate of Brass (discovered 1936), purported to have been left by Francis Drake after...
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  • a hero who often carves a Z with his rapier as a calling card. Drake's Plate of Brass Rosa, Don (June 2003). "DCML Digest #62 & 63". DCML. Retrieved 2015-06-25...
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    Herbert Eugene Bolton (category University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty)
    Bolton examined the recently discovered Drake's Plate of Brass and called it authentic proof that Sir Francis Drake had landed on the California coast in...
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    Allen, Robert W.; Spitze, James (2002). "Who Made Drake's Plate of Brass? Hint: It Wasn't Francis Drake". California History. 81 (2): 28–30. Morison, Samuel...
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    with Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting the description in Drake's own account, was discovered in 1933. This so-called Drake's Plate of Brass was...
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    wrote regarding the mystery of Drake's Plate of Brass hoax. He often cautioned about the insufficient utility of the plate as an artifact by saying, "Such...
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  • Universe consisted of 26 episodes. Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe was released on DVD on 11 March 2003. A collection DVD Box Set of all three Arthur...
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  • Allen, Robert W.; Spitze, James (2002). "Who Made Drake's Plate of Brass? Hint: It Wasn't Francis Drake". California History. 81 (2): 28–30. Morison, Samuel...
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    Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, respectively. The series follows Nathan Drake, a self-proclaimed descendant of Drake who retraces...
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  • civilizations Drake's Plate of Brass — supposedly a brass plaque planted by Francis Drake upon arrival in America, but a practical joke that spun out of control...
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  • Frank Asaro (category UC Berkeley College of Chemistry alumni)
    197 CE. The Plate of Brass, also known as Drake's Plate, is an artifact that English explorer Francis Drake purportedly left on the coast of what is now...
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  • George P. Hammond (category University of California, Berkeley alumni)
    take part in these hoaxes. Drake’s Plate of Brass served to promote an English hero and stressed a white national identity of America; as did the Chowan...
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    Henry Raup Wagner (category Historians of the American West)
    debunk some of the common contemporary misconceptions about the nature of Drake's expedition. He later became skeptical of Drake's Plate of Brass, a hoax...
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    one pioneered by Ferdinand Magellan. On Drake's voyage, Drake was the first Englishman to navigate out of the south Atlantic Ocean and during the journey...
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  • Steven M. Johnson (category Date of birth not in Wikidata)
    the hoax that the “plate of brass” found in 1933 was left by Sir Francis Drake in 1579. The plate was later exposed to be a prank of E Clampus Vitus, including...
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    p. 498 Drake's Eboracum, App. xviii. &c. Leland's Itinerary, i. 47, 54, vii. 50,51 Percy's Reliques, ed. Wheatley, i. 124; Casley's Cat. of Royal MSS...
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    John Rashleigh (1554–1624) (category Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall)
    now lost brass heraldic escutcheon, and below her feet is a plate bearing the following inscription: "Here lieth the bodie of Alice the wife of John Rashleigh...
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  • have sought to locate Drake's New Albion. The established site for Drake's 1579 landing at New Albion is at Drake's Cove in Drakes Bay in Marin County,...
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  • that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and...
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  • cup (air pump) A small brass receptacle with a stopcock or faucet, screwed to the air cylinder of an air pump, to hold a supply of lubricant for the air...
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    dragon, brass dragon, bronze dragon, and silver dragon, along with the Platinum Dragon (Bahamut) and the Chromatic Dragon (Tiamat). "Dragon" was one of the...
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