Cook's chiselled looks and languid manner led Humphries to observe that whereas most people take after their father or mother, Cook seemed more like an aunt.

At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific.

* Guardian in article Emma Brockes Meets Alistair Cook's Daughter – Letters from my father

John Mason Cook's sons, Frank Henry, Thomas Albert and Ernest Edward, were not nearly as successful as their father and grandfather at running the business.

Cook's Bay was named by John Graves Simcoe, the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, for James Cook, who had served as Master aboard the HMS Pembroke in 1759 under the command of Captain John Simcoe, the Lieutenant-Governor's father.

This name was coined by Johann Reinhold Forster and J. Georg Adam Forster, a father and son team of botanists aboard the HMS Resolution on James Cook's second voyage, and is maintained as a conserved name.

When his father died of tuberculosis in 1879, Cook's mother eventually had to send all her three children away: following a violent altercation with a teacher during a strapping, the 10-year-old Will went to live with his maternal grandparents ( ex-slaves who had bought their freedom ) in Chattanooga, where he first experienced " real Negro melodies " during what he would later call his " soul period ".

A monument at Cook's Lookout was erected in 1970.

SAT was the first known NP-complete problem, as proved by Stephen Cook in 1971 ( see Cook's theorem for the proof ).

Vancouver's first naval service was as a midshipman aboard, on James Cook's second voyage ( 1772 – 1775 ) searching for Terra Australis.

Cook's first posting was with HMS Eagle, sailing with the rank of master's mate.

Cook's aptitude for surveying was put to good use mapping the jagged coast of Newfoundland in the 1760s, aboard the HMS Grenville.

He complained that Frost's success was based on copying Cook's own stage persona and that his only regret in life had been once saving Frost from drowning.

In Cook's time it was impractical to preserve citrus fruit for long sea voyages.

More important was Cook's regime of shipboard cleanliness, enforced by strict discipline, as well as frequent replenishment of fresh food.

In 1776, Bligh was selected by Captain James Cook for the position of sailing master on the Resolution and accompanied Cook in July 1776 on Cook's third and fatal voyage to the Pacific.

Bligh returned to England at the end of 1780 and was able to give details of Cook's last voyage.

" Praise You ", also from this album, was Cook's first UK solo number one.

In 2003, he produced Crazy Beat and Gene by Gene from the Blur album Think Tank, and in 2004, Palookaville was Cook's first studio album for four years.

This was the first of James Cook's voyages of discovery in that region.

The Banksia genus was first described and named by Carolus Linnaeus the Younger in his April 1782 publication Supplementum Plantarum ; hence the full name for the genus is " Banksia L. f ." The genus name honours the English botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who collected the first Banksia specimens in 1770, during James Cook's first expedition.

The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration ( 1772 – 1775 ) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean ; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook.

However, the relationship between the Forsters and Cook and his officers was often problematic, due to the elder Forster's fractious temperament as well as Cook's refusal to allow more time for botanizing and other scientific observation.

This report was the first account of Cook's second voyage ( it appeared six weeks before the official publication ) and was intended for the general public.

From his London years, Forster was in contact with Sir Joseph Banks, the initiator of the Bounty expedition and a participant in Cook's first journey.

Moore was deeply affected by the death of Peter Cook in 1995, and for weeks would regularly telephone Cook's home in London just to get the telephone answering machine and hear his friend's voice.

Moore attended Cook's memorial service in London and at the time many people who knew him noted that Moore was behaving strangely and attributed it to grief or drinking.

While Bennett and Miller were already pursuing traditional careers, Cook had an agent due to his having written a West End revue for Kenneth Williams ; as a result, Cook's agent negotiated a higher weekly fee for him to participate, although by the time the agent's fee was deducted, Cook actually earned less than the others from the initial run.

Macmillan — according to Cook — was not particularly fond of the slurred caricature and charade of senile forgetfulness ( marked by a failure to pronounce ' Conservative Party ' coherently ) handed down on him in Cook's impersonation.

The show broke new ground with Peter Cook's impression of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ; on one occasion, this was performed with Macmillan in the audience, and Cook added an ad lib ridiculing Macmillan for turning up to watch.

Eleanor Bron's earliest work for television included appearances on David Frost's Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, My Father Knew Lloyd George and BBC-3, where she performed in sketches with John Fortune ; they had already worked together at Peter Cook's Establishment Club.

" Susan Glaspell describes what was probably the first ever reading of Bound East for Cardiff which took place in the living room of Glaspell and her husband George Cram Cook's home on Commercial Street, adjacent to the wharf ( pictured ) that was used by the Players for their theater.

A new town was laid out on Col. Cook's higher, less flood-prone land, and named Fredericktown in honor of Col. Cook's close friend from Bollinger County, Col. George Frederick Bollinger.

Captain Cook's statue in front of the Royal Crescent, built by George Hudson.

On October 19, 1814, Canadian forces led by George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, met an American raiding party, numbering approximately nine hundred, near the eastern edge of the present community during the Battle of Cook's Mills.

After a small engagement at Cook's Mills, American forces, commanded by General George Izard, abandoned Fort Erie and returned to the U. S. territory.

The Malazan series is often compared both to Glen Cook's The Black Company series ( to whom the seventh book is dedicated ) and George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series.

The New York Syncopated Orchestra — he had created — toured the United States in 1918 and then went to England in 1919 for a command performance for King George V. Among his company were assistant director Will Tyers, jazz clarinetist Sidney Bechet, and Cook's wife, Abbie Mitchell.

First record of hiko in Tonga, young girls throwing limes, gourds, or tui tui nuts in the shower pattern, by George Forster, aboard Captain Cook's second Pacific voyage.

The band's first album, I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat, is the first to be co-produced by Cook's longtime engineer Simon Thornton, who also sings on one track.

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

Cook also formed the group The Mighty Dub Katz along with Gareth Hansome ( aka GMoney ), Cook's former flatmate.

According to Heyerdahl, something happened between Admiral Roggeveen's discovery of the island in 1722 and James Cook's visit in 1774 ; while Roggeveen encountered white, Indian, and Polynesian people living in relative harmony and prosperity, Cook encountered a much smaller population consisting mainly of Polynesians and living in privation.

Cook and Moore are most remembered for their sketches as two working-class men, Pete and Dud, in macs and cloth caps, commenting on politics and the arts, but they fashioned a series of one-off characters, usually with Moore in the role of interviewer to one of Cook's upper-class eccentrics.

The best-known figure on Cook's mission, Joseph Banks ,< ref > Extract from Lapérouse's journal: I here must witness my recognition of Sir Joseph Banks, who, having realised that Monsieur de Monneron could not find an inclining compass in London, wished to lend us those that had served the famous captain Cook.

Humboldt's passion for travel was confirmed by a friendship formed at Göttingen with Georg Forster, Heyne's son-in-law and the companion of Captain James Cook on Cook's second voyage.

At this period the settlers saw Cook Strait in a broader sense than today's ferry-oriented New Zealanders: for them the strait stretched from Taranaki to Cape Campbell, so these early towns all clustered around " Cook Strait " ( or " Cook's Strait ", in the pre-Geographic Board usage of the times ) as the central feature and central waterway of the new colony.

Lupino interviewed the two prospectors that Billy Cook had held hostage, and got releases from them and from Cook as well, so that she could integrate parts of Cook's life into the script.

In this myth, Captain Cook introduced ' Cook's Law ', upon which the settlers rely.

Some Hawaiians may have believed that Captain James Cook was Lono returned and indeed this fact may have ultimately contributed to Cook's death ( see James Cook-Third voyage ( 1776-1779 )).

An Aboriginal man dressed as Captain Cook and Aboriginal float led the parade in 1988, 200 years after Cook's landing and claim on the land.