Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

As a youngster living in poverty, along with his childhood friends, Johnson was an object of ridicule from members of higher social circles ; as such, he was commonly referred to as " poor white trash " by the elite in Raleigh.

After his marriage proposal to her was rejected, he returned to Raleigh.

* The house where he was born was preserved and is within Mordecai Historic Park in Raleigh.

The 44-metre tall monument to Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert was built in 1857 by the townspeople of Bodmin to honour the soldier's life and work in India.

It was reportedly anchored in the river Dart for more than a year and the crew were used as labourers on the nearby Greenway Estate which was the home of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh.

After intervention by Burghley and Sir Walter Raleigh, Oxford was reconciled to the Queen and his two-year exile from court ended at the end of May, on condition of his guarantee of good behaviour.

Maurice Evans was cast as Raleigh.

Colin Clive reprised his role as Stanhope, and David Manners was cast as Raleigh.

Bakker was born in Muskegon, Michigan, the son of Raleigh Bakker and Furnia Lynette " Furn " Irwin.

Upshaw was an Atlanta boy, a few months younger than Mitchell, whose family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1916.

Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne.

Instrumental in the English colonisation of North America, Raleigh was granted a royal patent to explore Virginia, which paved the way for future English settlements.

In 1584, the queen granted Sir Walter Raleigh a charter for the colonisation of Virginia ; it was named in her honour.

Her father, Frank Davis, was a graduate of St. Augustine's College, a historically black college in Raleigh, North Carolina, and was briefly a high school history teacher.

At Sir Walter Raleigh's own treason trial later on, in 1603, it was alleged that Raleigh had said to a co-conspirator, " Do not, as my Lord Essex did, take heed of a preacher.

It is a mistake to see Boyle's ' empire ' as merely being exclusively confined to the development of the ' Raleigh estates ': for instance, his acquisition of the entirety of the town of Bandon was not completed until 1625.

Only one of them, Dr. Raleigh Ashlin Skelton, keeper of the Museum's map collection, had significant expertise relevant to the problems posed by the map ( his colleague George Painter, the first person to whom Davis had shown the map in 1957, was brought in for the transcription and translation of the Relation ) and the secrecy almost completely ruled out consultation with specialists.

He was taken to the closest black hospital, Saint Agnes Hospital in Raleigh.

White was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sir Richard Grenville's artist-illustrator on his first voyage to the New World ; he served as mapmaker and artist to the expedition, which encountered considerable difficulties and returned to England in 1586.

One group in Raleigh, North Carolina urged " that North Carolina remain white ... in the name of Virginia Dare.

* 1585 – The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island ( now in North Carolina ) to establish the Roanoke Colony.

With the success of Journey's End at home, Broadway producer Gilbert Miller acquired the rights to mount a New York production with an all-British cast headed by Colin Keith-Johnston as Stanhope and Derek Williams as Raleigh.

* The Book of the Courtier ( 1561 ), English translation by Thomas Hoby as edited by Walter Raleigh for David Nutt, Publisher, London, 1900.

The name " Virginia " may have been suggested then by Raleigh or Elizabeth, perhaps noting her status as the " Virgin Queen ", and may also be related to a native phrase, " Wingandacoa ", or name, " Wingina ".

This would result with Cedar Hills, Garden Home, Raleigh Hills, West Slope being incorporated by 2010, and the communities of Aloha, Bethany, and Cedar Mill at some point after that.

Game 3 in Raleigh featured a triple-overtime thriller ( won by Detroit's Igor Larionov, the oldest player to score a last-round goal ), which sportscasters called one of the best finals games in history.

Raleigh hosted the 2011 NHL All-Star Game in January, and Eric Staal captained a team he selected ( opposite a team selected by the Detroit Red Wings ' Nicklas Lidstrom ) that featured Skinner ( the youngest All-Star in NHL history ), Cam Ward, and ( for the SuperSkills competition ) defenseman Jamie McBain.

White's patron Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to provide ships to rescue the colony but he was overruled by the Queen.

Finally, in March 1590, with the immediate threat of a Spanish invasion by now abated, Raleigh was able to equip White's rescue expedition.

He found, however, little leisure for a country life, and the following year took charge of the fleet fitted out by Sir Walter Raleigh to the Spanish coast, returning with a rich prize.

Roanoke Island is one of the three oldest surviving English place-names in the U. S. Along with the Chowan and Neuse rivers, it was named in 1584 by Captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, sent by Sir Walter Raleigh.

The Fort Raleigh National Historic Site is a reconstruction of the fort built by the English on the island.

" The first Discovery and Settlement of this Country was by the Procurement of Sir Walter Raleigh, in Conjunction with some publick-spirited Gentlemen of that Age, under the Protection of Queen Elizabeth ; for which Reason it was then named Virginia, being begun on that Part called Ronoak-Island, where the Ruins of a Fort are to be seen at this day, as well as some old English Coins which have been lately found ; and a Brass-Gun, a Powder-Horn, and one small Quarter deck-Gun, made of Iron Staves, and hoop'd with the same Metal ; which Method of making Guns might very probably be made use of in those Days, for the Convenience of Infant-Colonies.

The enterprise was financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh and carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cousin.

On April 27, 1584, Raleigh dispatched an expedition led by Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the Eastern coast of North America.

Based on this information, Raleigh organized a second expedition, to be led by Sir Richard Grenville.

English writer and courtier Richard Hakluyt's contemporary reports of the first voyage to Virginia, compiled from accounts by various financial backers including Sir Walter Raleigh ( Hakluyt himself never traveled to the New World ), also describe this incident.

In the summer of 1579, Gilbert and Raleigh were commissioned by the lord deputy of Ireland, William Drury, to attack his old foe, the rebel James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, by sea and land and to intercept a fleet expected to arrive from Spain with aid for the Munster rebels.

After nearly thirty years of being Raleigh ’ s bishop, Waters passed away from a heart attack, leaving North Carolina with seventy-eight diocesan priests, seventy-six religious order priests, and 77, 834 Catholics.

In 1583, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted Walter Raleigh a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florida.

Raleigh and Elizabeth sought both immediate riches and a base for privateers to raid the Spanish treasure fleets.

During the Islands Voyage expedition to the Azores in 1597, with Walter Raleigh as his second in command, he defied the Queen's orders, pursuing the treasure fleet without first defeating the Spanish battle fleet.

The government alleged that on 11 June 1603, Raleigh had met with Lord Cobham, and they had agreed to bring Lady Arbella Stuart to the English throne, and to accept 600, 000 marks from the Spanish government.

As such, Raleigh was charged with supporting Stuart's claim to the throne and claiming Spanish money.

In a moment of weakness James had shown Gondomar the contract under which Raleigh had sailed, the restriction upon attacking Spanish settlements, in order to mollify his objections to an enterprise on which James had set his heart.

When Sir Walter Raleigh was released from his imprisonment in 1616, he embarked on a hunt for gold in South America with strict instructions from James not to engage the Spanish.

Sir Walter Raleigh and some Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French and Portuguese expeditions were looking for the wonderful Guiana empire that gave its name to the present day countries of the Guianas.

Walter Raleigh ( Clive Owen ) is presented at Elizabeth's court, having returned from the New World, and offers her potatoes, tobacco, two Native Americans, and gold from Spanish ships that he claims were " unable to continue their journey ".

The Spanish ambassador feigns ignorance and accuses Elizabeth of receiving Spanish gold from pirates and insinuating a sexual relationship with Raleigh.

In some episodes, such as the confrontation with the Spanish ambassador, Drake's historical actions are attributed to Raleigh.

During the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 ), the original Portuguese fortifications were redesigned by Italian military engineer Giovanni Vicenzo Casale and his assistants, since privateers, such as Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh, had attacked Spanish ships and possessions.

The ship was initially built as the Starre in 1615 and renamed the Jason by Sir Walter Raleigh for use in his second expedition to Guiana ( then under control of the Spanish ) in 1617.

The movie has Raleigh and her marrying prior to the Spanish Armada ( 1588 ), when in fact they married in 1591.

WCLY is a Spanish language sports radio station located in Raleigh, North Carolina.