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    Sir Ralph Lane (c. 1532 – October 1603) was an English explorer of the Elizabethan era. He helped colonise the Kingdom of Ireland in 1583 and was sheriff...
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    Ralph Lane Polk (1849–1923) was an American compiler of facts and publisher of directories. Polk was born 12 September 1849 in Bellefontaine, Logan County...
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    born to Thomas Angell Lane and Mary (née Brittain) Lane in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England. He was born Ralph Norman Angell Lane, but later adopted Angell...
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    Colony was founded by governor Ralph Lane in 1585 on Roanoke Island in present-day Dare County, North Carolina. Lane's colony was troubled by a lack of...
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  • married to the eight year old Ralph Lane Her father became the guardian to the couple and her new father in law was William Lane of Orlingbury. The marriage...
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    Ralph Lane (16 March 1930 – 29 May 2014) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Ralph Lane joined Melbourne...
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  • Buckinghamshire, and Northamptonshire where Sir Ralph Lane is theorized to have originated. A knighted Sir Richard Lane is found in Northamptonshire in the early...
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  • Ralph McLane (December 19, 1907 – February 18, 1951) was an American clarinetist. He was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. McLane is best known for his tenure...
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    Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Richard Grenville, and Sir Ralph Lane. Five of these individuals originated in the southwest region of England...
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  • Robert Lane (1527 – c. 1588) was an English politician. He was the son of Sir Ralph Lane and Lady Maud Parr (a daughter of William Parr, 1st Baron Parr...
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  • colony was established in 1585 as a military outpost under the command of Ralph Lane, and evacuated in 1586. A list of colonists is provided in Richard Hakluyt's...
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    food for the colony, Sir Ralph Lane led an attack on the Secotan; Wingina was decapitated during the attack by one of Lane's men. This attack and crime...
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    much like grapes to keep the fronds afloat. However, in 1585, Governor Ralph Lane, when describing North Carolina to Raleigh, stated that "We have discovered...
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    encountered on the voyage. In 1585, White accompanied the expedition led by Sir Ralph Lane to attempt to found the first English colony in North America. White was...
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    was acquired by IHS Markit in 2013. R. L. Polk & Company was founded by Ralph Lane Polk in 1870 in Detroit as a publisher of business directories. In 1872...
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  • professional basketball player Loula Roberts Platt (1863–1934), suffragist Ralph Lane Polk (1849–1923), founder, publisher and president of R.L. Polk & Company...
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    expedition to Roanoke island funded by Sir Walter Raleigh and led by Sir Ralph Lane. He learned the Carolina Algonquian language from two Native Americans...
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    Sir Richard Grenville and the colony on Roanoke Island was governed by Ralph Lane. The colony ran out of food after clashes with the local inhabitants and...
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    Lane Monte Kiffin (born May 9, 1975) is an American football coach who is the head coach at Ole Miss. Kiffin was the offensive coordinator at USC from...
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    of North Carolina. Historians trace its origins to the appointment of Ralph Lane as the governor of the Roanoke Colony in 1585. From 1622 to 1731, the...
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    Sheryl Lee Ralph OJ (born December 30, 1956) is an American actress and singer. Known for her performances on stage and screen, she earned acclaim for...
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  • unknown. Sir Walter Raleigh, governor of Virginia (1585–1590, absentee) Sir Ralph Lane, governor of Roanoke (Virginia) (1585–1586) John White, governor of Raleigh...
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  • original on September 4, 2009. Retrieved March 31, 2010. Lane, Ralph. "The Account by Ralph Lane. An account of the particularities of the imployments of...
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    names of Roanoke's towns. The first attempted settlement was headed by Ralph Lane in 1585. Sir Richard Grenville had transported the colonists to Virginia...
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    Vicky Lane (born Grace Patricia Rose Coghlan (April 23, 1926 – August 1, 1983) was an Irish-American film actress who also worked as a singer. Lane first...
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    begins. July 29 – Aboard the English ship Tiger, Roanoke expedition leader Ralph Lane negotiates an agreement with the Secotan people, who are represented by...
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist...
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    heavily criticised by Ralph Lane, general of the expedition, who referred to Grenville's "intolerable pride and insatiable ambition". Lane's remark was prompted...
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    Led by Cornet Sedgreve, forty horse charged straight at Tyrone. Sir Ralph Lane noted that "their encounter was so rude that they were both unhorsed"...
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    Diapason d'Or with fellow Australian and senior ABC recording producer Ralph Lane, for their recording of Morton Feldman's solo piano music (ABC Classics)...
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