* Selkirk is mentioned in Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua Slocum.

Joshua Slocum was one of the first people to carry out a long-distance sailing voyage for pleasure, circumnavigating the world between 1895 and 1898.

* 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.

The fame Nova Scotia achieved from sailors was assured when Joshua Slocum became the first man to sail single-handedly around the world ( 1895 ).

Since the solo circumnavigation of Joshua Slocum in the 1890s, long-distance cruising under sail has inspired thousands of otherwise normal people to explore distant seas and horizons.

* July 3 – Joshua Slocum completes a 3-year solo circumnavigation of the world.

** Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer ( d. 1909 )

Joshua Slocum, in his 1899 book Sailing Alone Around the World refers to Nova Scotians as being the only or true Yankees.

* Spray ( sailing_vessel ), a sloop rebuilt and used by Joshua Slocum to sail single-handed around the world, the first voyage of its kind.

* Joshua Slocum, 1895 – 1898, first single-handed circumnavigation.

* Captain Joshua Slocum ( 1844 – 1909 ), the first man to sail alone around the world, and his ship, the Spray.

Joshua Slocum used the Lunar Distance method during the first ever recorded single-handed circumnavigation of the world.

Joshua Slocum ( February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after November 14, 1909 ) was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world.

Joshua Slocum was born on 20 February 1844 in Mount Hanley, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia ( officially recorded as Wilmot Station ), a community on the North Mountain within sight of the Bay of Fundy.

Joshua Slocum was born in the family's farm house in Mount Hanley and learned to read and write at the nearby Mount Hanley School.

Although Joshua Slocum called this ship " my best command ", it was a command plagued with mutinies and mechanical problems.

Brady photographed and made portraits of many senior Union officers in the war, including Ulysses S. Grant, Nathaniel Banks, Don Carlos Buell, Ambrose Burnside, Benjamin Butler, Joshua Chamberlain, George Custer, David Farragut, John Gibbon, Winfield Hancock, Samuel P. Heintzelman, Joseph Hooker, Oliver Howard, David Hunter, John A. Logan, Irvin McDowell, George McClellan, James McPherson, George Meade, Montgomery C. Meigs, David Dixon Porter, William Rosecrans, John Schofield, William Sherman, Daniel Sickles, Henry Warner Slocum, George Stoneman, Edwin V. Sumner, George Thomas, Emory Upton, James Wadsworth, and Lew Wallace.

The voyage was also a race against the clock as Sir Francis wanted to better the typical times achieved by the fastest fully crewed clipper ships during the heyday of commercial sail in the 19th century ( the first recorded solo circumnavigation of the globe was achieved by Joshua Slocum in 1898 but it took him three years with numerous stops-Slocum also took up the harder challenge of sailing east to west, against the prevailing wind ).

Harry Clifford Pidgeon ( August 31, 1869 – November 4, 1954 ), was an American sailor, a noted photographer, and was the second person to sail single-handedly around the world ( 1921-1925 ), 23 years after Joshua Slocum.

* Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail solo around the world

Brier Island was the childhood home of world famous sailor Joshua Slocum who became the first person to circumnavigate the world alone.

* Joshua Slocum ( 1844 – 1909 )

Some of the incidents surrounding this event are recounted in Val Wake's memoir My Voyage around Spray with Apologies to Captain Joshua Slocum.

* Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World, ISBN 1-877008-57-5

The Ark is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and then numerous times in Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Psalms and Jeremiah.

( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).

Having described how the Israelites and Joshua have carried out the first of their God's commands, the story now turns to the second, to " put the people in possession of the land.

The Babylonian Talmud was the first attempt to attach authors to the holy books: each book, according to the authors of the Talmud, was written by a prophet, and each prophet was an eyewitness of the events described, and Joshua himself wrote " the book that bears his name ".

The record shot to number three on the charts, followed closely, in February 1971, by her first number-one single, " Joshua.

Although officially denied by the Nigerian government, Nigeria is known to have also provided secret military training at the Kaduna first mechanized army division and provided other material support to Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War ( Renamed Zimbabwe in 1979 ) of independence against white minority rule of Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith which was armed and financed by the regime in South Africa.

The term plasmid was first introduced by the American molecular biologist Joshua Lederberg in 1952.

The People's Political Party ( PPP ), founded in 1952 by Ebenezer Joshua, was the first major political party in St. Vincent.

Joshua Spodek, as an astrophysics graduate student, conceived of and led the development of a class of linear zoetropes that saw the zoetrope's first commercial success in over a century.

The glow was first correctly identified as being due to scattered sunlight from dust particles in the solar system by Joshua Childrey in 1661.

* December 10 – Royal Academy founded in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first President.

In addition, Joshua erects a stone under an oak tree as the first covenant of the Lord ( Josh.

Sir Joshua Reynolds in his Discourses praised his " simple, grave, and majestic dignity " and said he " stands in general foremost of the first best painters ", especially for his frescoes ( in which he included the " Raphael Cartoons "), whereas " Michael Angelo claims the next attention.

Max later learns that Joshua was the first transgenic created by Manticore's founder Sandeman.

In biblical history, the Jordan appears as the scene of several miracles, the first taking place when the Jordan, near Jericho, was crossed by the Israelites under Joshua ().

Joshua Barnes, a medieval writer, said " Queen Philippa was a very good and charming person that exceeded most ladies for sweetness of nature and virtuous disposition.

Paula's family, consisting of Barry Danziger, Annette Danziger, Samuel Danziger, Carrie Danziger, Benjamin Danziger, and Joshua Danziger, were all present and gave speeches about how wonderful of a person Paula was.

Standing with Roosevelt are United States House of Representatives | Rep. Robert L. Doughton | Robert Doughton ( Democratic Party ( United States ) | D-North Carolina | NC ); unknown person in shadow ; United States Senate | Sen. Robert F. Wagner | Robert Wagner ( D-New York | NY ); Rep. John D. Dingell, Sr. | John Dingell ( D-Michigan | MI ); Rep. Joshua Twing Brooks ( D-Pennsylvania ); the United States Secretary of Labor | Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins ; Sen. Pat Harrison ( D-Mississippi | MS ); and Rep. David L. Lewis | David Lewis ( D-Maryland | MD ).

Examples: William Faulkner in A Rose for Emily ( Faulkner was an avid experimenter in using unusual points of view-see his Spotted Horses, told in third person plural ); Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in Cheaper By the Dozen ; Frederik Pohl in Man Plus ; and more recently, Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides and Joshua Ferris in Then We Came to the End.

* Achan ( Bible ), a person in the Book of Joshua.

According to Coggins he is probably the same person as Adonizedek mentioned in Joshua 10, and flourished c. 1200 BC.

Some Christian scholars have theorized that the Rahab described in Joshua is not the same person as the Rahab mentioned in Jesus ' genealogy.

Elsewhere in the New Testament the Rahab of the Book of Joshua is mentioned as an example of a person of faith () and good works (), but these use another Greek word-Ῥαάβ and it is coupled with the term harlot.

Joshua Shaw earned his nickname by being the first person to bring sheep overland to the Oregon Country via the Oregon Trail, also in 1844.

It should be noted that the tradition of Boaz descending from a Canaanite prostitute stems from confusion regarding the identity of the mother of Boaz, who is not mentioned in the Tanakh but is in the Genealogical record of Matthew ; Because they have the same name some people believe she is the same person mentioned in Joshua, but that is not supported by linguistic and textual evidence.

In May 2011, the ASMF announced the appointment of Joshua Bell as its new music director, the second person to hold the title in the ensemble's history, effective September 2011, with an initial contract of 3 years.

Historians have pointed out that the trial and speedy execution may have been hastened by anti-Loyalist sentiment, and also that the person who signed Spooner's death warrant was Joshua Spooner's stepbrother.