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* 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.
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
Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail solo around the world, grew up in Westport, where his mother was born.
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

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Cousin Joshua Dover decided to remain with the Reverend and poor Isaac Pitt until life passed away -- and he was hurt so badly he did not seem for long in this world.
Joshua, however, was admitted with his leader to the very presence of the Lord, while Aaron and Hur remained below to look after the people ( Exodus 24: 9-14 ).
When the Israelites, led by Joshua toward the Promised Land, arrived at the banks of the River Jordan, the Ark was carried in the lead preceding the people and was the signal for their advance ( Joshua 3: 3, 6 ).
The Ark was again set up by Joshua at Shiloh, but when the Israelites fought against Benjamin at Gibeah, they had the Ark with them and consulted it after their defeat.
The Ark was set in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and the Beth-shemites offered sacrifices and burnt offerings ( 1 Sam.
Abraham Joshua Heschel ( January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972 ) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.
Abraham Joshua Heschel was descended from preeminent European rabbis on both sides of the family.
In 2009, a highway in Missouri was named " Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel Highway " after a Springfield, Missouri area Neo-Nazi group cleaned the stretch of highway as part of an " Adopt-A-Highway " plan.
Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.
Although tradition holds that it was written by Joshua, it is probable that it was written by multiple editors and authors far removed from the time.
The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.
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 ".
There is now general agreement that Joshua was composed as part of a larger work, the Deuteronomistic history, stretching from Deuteronomy to Kings.
The apparent setting of Joshua is the 13th century ; this was a time of widespread city-destruction, but with a few exceptions ( Hazor, Lachish ) the destroyed cities are not the ones the Bible associates with Joshua, and the ones it does associate with him show little or no sign of even being occupied at the time.
God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

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He was born in London, one of seventeen children of Joshua Mayhew.
Joshua Carter Jackson ( born June 11, 1978 ) is a Canadian actor.
According to the books Exodus, Numbers and Joshua, he became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses ; his name was Hoshe ' a the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him Yehoshu ' a ( Joshua ) () the name by which he is commonly known ; and he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus, and was probably the same age as Caleb, with whom he is occasionally associated.
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; born March 22, 1930 ) is an American composer and lyricist known for his contributions to musical theatre.
Joshua Scott " JC " Chasez ( born August 8, 1976 ) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, entertainer, record producer, and occasional actor, best known as one of the lead vocalists in the former pop group ' N Sync.
He does return however when Cory's brother Joshua is born prematurely and has a small chance of survival.
Josh Homme, lead singer for Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures, was born in Joshua Tree.
Joshua Barrett Madden, born in Minden but reared also in Sibley, was a decorated United States Army sergeant in the Iraq War.
Joshua Seney was born near Church Hill, and is buried on his property near the town.
* Joshua Gomez ( born 1975 ), stars in the NBC series Chuck as Morgan Grimes.
Thomas Bayes was the son of London Presbyterian minister Joshua Bayes and perhaps born in Hertfordshire.
* Joshua Lederberg ( 1925 – 2008 ), geneticist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work in bacterial genetics, was born in Montclair.
Wetmore was born in Middletown, Connecticut and was hired by Joshua Stow as a land agent of property in the Western Reserve which was purchased by the Connecticut Land Company.
** Joshua Hobson, pamphleteer ( born 1810 )
Joshua Waitzkin ( born December 4, 1976 ) is an American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author.
* August 3 – Joshua Barnes, scholar ( born 1654 )
** Joshua Falk, Hebraic scholar ( born 1555 )
Their son Joshua was born 2 1 / 2 months early on September 12, 1973 and died 5 days later.
* Joshua Clark, ( born 1980 ), American writer
Joshua Daniel " Josh " Hartnett ( born July 21, 1978 ) is an American actor and producer.
John S. Pillsbury was born in Sutton, New Hampshire of English descent, son of John and Susan ( Wadleigh ) Pillsbury, and descendant of Joshua Pillsbury, who emigrated from England to Newburyport, Mass., in 1640.
Physician, American Revolution general, and Rhode Island Supreme Court justice, Dr. Joshua Babcock and Royal Governor and Chief Justice of Rhode Island Samuel Ward were born in Westerly.

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