Colonel Robert Jacob Gordon (29 September 1743 – 25 October 1795) was a Dutch military officer, explorer and naturalist. Robert Jacob Gordon was the son...
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Gordon's Bay in the northeastern corner of False Bay about 58 km from Cape Town to the south of the N2 national road and is named after Robert Jacob Gordon...
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Robert Gordon may refer to: Robert Gordon (actor) (1895–1971), silent-film actor Robert Gordon (director) (1913–1990), American director Robert Gordon...
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partly from the Orange River, which was named by the Dutch explorer Robert Jacob Gordon in honour of the Dutch ruling family, the House of Orange, whose...
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Dutch ruling family, the House of Orange, by the Dutch explorer Robert Jacob Gordon. Other names include simply the word for river, in Khoekhoegowab...
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1819) Count of Doggersbank, was a Dutch naval officer and sea hero Robert Jacob Gordon (1743 in Doesburg – 1795) explorer, soldier, artist, naturalist and...
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in South Africa. Nabu Press. ISBN 978-1141789283. Patrick Robert Cullinan, Robert Jacob Gordon 1743–1795: The Man and His Travels at the Cape, Struik Publishers...
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first padrão, or stone cross on 12 March 1488. First visited by Robert Jacob Gordon on 13 February 1786, remnants of the cross were rediscovered in 1938...
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Cullinan also published a biography of Robert Jacob Gordon (a Dutch traveller and soldier): Robert Jacob Gordon 1743 - 1795: The Man and His Travels at...
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Rivers Hendrik Jacob Wikar and Robert Jacob Gordon meet Khoikhoi, Geisiqua and Tswana tribes along lower and middle Gariep which Gordon names Orange River...
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species diversity. Painting by Dutch artist Robert Jacob Gordon. Patrick Cullinan. "Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795 The Man and his Travels at the Cape"...
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centre, to the south of the N2 national road and is named after Robert Jacob Gordon (1743–1795), the Dutch explorer of Scottish descent. It is the smallest...
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Richtersveld, South Africa Richtersveld, South Africa painting possibly by Robert Jacob Gordon circa 1780 Timberlake, J.R. 2021. Pachypodium namaquanum. The IUCN...
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(1600–1700), New Guinea coast, navigated the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1623 Robert Jacob Gordon (1743–1795), extensively traveled South Africa in the service of...
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Carl Linnaeus (1735) Hungarian linguist János Uri (1749) explorer Robert Jacob Gordon (1759) statesman Herman Willem Daendels (1783) engineer and general...
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eastern Cape (c. 1450–1500) John Dunn, colonial pioneer (1833–1895) Robert Jacob Gordon, explorer, soldier, naturalist (1743–1795) Emil Holub, explorer (1847–1902)...
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"Joseph Gordon-Levitt buys craftsman-style mansion in Pasadena". May 16, 2023. EA in media | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Galef, AJ Jacobs, and William...
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outside the Stormberg-Drakensberg massif. It was named by Colonel Robert Jacob Gordon when he accompanied Governor Joachim van Plettenberg on a journey...
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Jacob Black's best friend. Gordon replaced Krys Hyatt (who played Embry in Twilight) in New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.[citation needed] Gordon...
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shared interests. During one of their trips, they were joined by Robert Jacob Gordon, on leave from his regiment in the Netherlands. Together, the scientists...
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writers such as Dutch military commander Robert Jacob Gordon and French traveller François Levaillant. Gordon's stay in South Africa produced scientific...
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under the command of Governor Abraham Josias Sluysken and Colonel Robert Jacob Gordon. This garrison was centered on the Castle of Good Hope and operated...
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poetry, an anthology on the work of Lionel Abrahams, a biography of Robert Jacob Gordon, and a novel, Matrix. Born in Pretoria, he was educated in Johannesburg...
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(Middelburg) Matthew Goniwe - one of the Cradock Four (Cradock) Robert Jacob Gordon - explorer (Orange River & Colesberg, 1778-9) Albert Hoffa Maximillian...
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Jacob Tremblay (/ˈtrɒmbleɪ/ TROM-blay; born October 5, 2006) is a Canadian actor. He became known for his role as a child born in captivity in Room (2015)...
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many countries. In Belgium, artist Edgar Pierre Jacobs was therefore asked to bring the current Flash Gordon story to a satisfactory conclusion, which he...
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short collecting trips with Scotsman Francis Masson and commissar Robert Jacob Gordon, these becoming longer over the next few months, the itineraries...
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Astor family (redirect from John Jacob Astor Jr.)
Sr. (1869–1942) Margaret Chanler Aldrich (1870–1963) Robert Winthrop Chanler (1872–1930) John Jacob Astor III (1822–1890) William Waldorf Astor I (1848–1919)...
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Masson, William Patterson, Jan Splinter Stavornius or Stavorinus, Robert Jacob Gordon and François Le Vaillant (Levaillant). He made several tours to determine...
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Robert Jacob (died 1588) was an English physician. Jacob was the eldest son of Giles Jacob of London, was entered at Merchant Taylors' School on 21 Jan...
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