Chesapeake is a novel by James A. Michener, published by Random House in 1978. The story deals with several families living in the Chesapeake Bay area...
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Chesapeake most often refers to: Chesapeake people, a Native American tribe also known as the Chesepian Chesapeake Bay Delmarva Peninsula, also known as...
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Chesapeake Shores is a romantic television series, based on the novel series of the same name by Sherryl Woods, produced by Chesapeake Shores Productions...
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The Chesapeake Bay (/ˈtʃɛsəpiːk/ CHESS-ə-peek) is the largest estuary in the United States. The bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily...
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The Chesapeake–Leopard affair was a naval engagement off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on June 22, 1807, between the British fourth-rate HMS Leopard...
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Callinectes sapidus (redirect from Chesapeake blue crab)
book with an extensive discussion of the crabs and their lifecycle Chesapeake (novel), by James Michener with a story about C. sapidus titled "Jimmy the...
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Chesapeake was a 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She was one of the original six frigates whose construction...
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Chesapeake Shores is a Canadian/American drama television series, based on the novel series of the same name by Sherryl Woods. The series had a two-hour...
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their weekend home on the Chesapeake, where Ellison briefly strikes up a relationship with a local woman. At the end of the novel, Leigh wins a major publishing...
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Hannibal Lecter (redirect from Chesapeake ripper)
rescues the wounded Starling and takes her to his rented house on the Chesapeake shore to treat her, subjecting her to a regimen of behavioral conditioning...
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The capture of USS Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of Boston Harbor, was fought on 1 June 1813, between the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon and the...
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Aubrey–Maturin series (redirect from The Letter of Marque (novel))
between HMS Shannon and USS Chesapeake. The series then enters a kind of fantasy-time in which it takes another dozen novels to progress to November 1813...
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Sea Swept (category Works about Chesapeake Bay)
Sea Swept is the first book of four in the Chesapeake Bay novel series. Originally published in 1998. Cameron Quinn is a champion boat racer who travels...
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The Fortune of War (redirect from The Fortune of War (novel))
USS Chesapeake – a 38-gun frigate USS President – a 44-gun frigate USS Congress – a 38-gun frigate The two frigate actions depicted in the novel were...
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The Surgeon's Mate (redirect from The Surgeon's Mate (novel))
The Surgeon's Mate is the seventh historical novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series written by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1980. The story is set...
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Great Dismal Swamp (category Landforms of Chesapeake, Virginia)
It is located in parts of the southern Virginia independent cities of Chesapeake and Suffolk and northern North Carolina counties of Gates, Pasquotank...
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ships, which were then blockading French ships in Chesapeake Bay, and joined the crew of USS Chesapeake. In an attempt to recover the British deserters...
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Best Novel 2011 Lefty Award nomination 'The Real Macaw' 2011 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel 2012 Lefty Award Sisters in Crime (Chesapeake Chapter)...
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Red Kayak (category Works about Chesapeake Bay)
boy named Brady Parks who is part of a poor crab-fishing family on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. A wealthy family called the DiAngelos buys the property...
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Without Remorse (redirect from Without Remorse (novel))
hitchhiker named Pam on his way to his home on Battery Island in the Chesapeake Bay. They quickly become lovers, and over time Kelly discovers her full...
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real-life Leopard's earlier involvement in the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair in 1807 is described in the novel. The appearance of the American whaler reveals...
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Icebreakers (ice hockey team), a charity hockey team of Swedish NHL players Chesapeake Icebreakers, a defunct American minor-league hockey team Ice Breaker Road...
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Colony of Virginia (redirect from Chesapeake Bay Colony)
(260 km2) between the 38th parallel and the 45th parallel (roughly between Chesapeake Bay and the current U.S.–Canada border). The London Company was permitted...
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Frederick Chilton (category Characters in American novels of the 20th century)
influences him into believing that he is the serial killer known as the Chesapeake Ripper. Gideon eventually learns the truth and suffers an identity crisis...
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1948; Hawaii; The Drifters; Centennial; The Source; The Fires of Spring; Chesapeake; Caribbean; Caravans; Alaska; Texas; Space; Poland; and The Bridges at...
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Jacob Have I Loved (category Chesapeake Bay)
during the early 1940s on the small, fictional island of Rass in the Chesapeake Bay. Imaginative, emotionally sensitive, and hard working, Sara Louise...
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December Park (category Chesapeake Bay)
called Harting Farms, Maryland, located on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. The novel is narrated by 15-year-old Angelo "Angie" Mazzone, who relays...
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the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay, during which he became the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area. Later, he explored and...
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Will Graham (character) (category Characters in American novels of the 20th century)
method with which Graham discerns Lecter's identity as the Chesapeake Ripper in the novels' universe (i.e., talking to Lecter regarding a murder victim's...
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northern Finland, punt guns were never used in the country. In his 1978 novel Chesapeake, author James A. Michener details the historical use of various punt...
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