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

* 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

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

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 ).

The boundaries of the land are spelled out ; the land is to be divided under the supervision of Eleazar, Joshua, and twelve princes, one of each tribe.

There are also similarities between Ezra the priest-scribe ( but not high priest ) and Nehemiah the secular governor on the one hand and Joshua and Zerubbabel on the other hand.

He was born in London, one of seventeen children of Joshua Mayhew.

Sir Joshua Reynolds was on very many accounts one of the most memorable men of his Time.

In the editorial notes of his compendium Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Hilles theorizes that " as a corollary one might say that he was somewhat lacking in a capacity for love ", and cites Boswell's notary papers: " He said the reason he would never marry was that every woman whom he liked had grown indifferent to him, and he had been < u > glad </ u > he did not marry her.

Joshua ( Yĕhôshúa ‘;, Yūshaʿ ibn Nūn ), is a figure in the Torah, being one of the spies for Israel ( Num 13-14 ) and in few passages as Moses ' assistant.

* In the literary tradition of medieval Europe, Joshua is known as one of the Nine Worthies.

In one case she paskinned din on " klaustra " a rare Greek word referring to an object, used in the Talmud, unfortunately Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi did not believe women could be credited with paskining din, as it says ' do not speak too much to women ' ( Tannah Rabbi Jesse the Galilean ), and therefore credited the law to Rabbi Joshua who may have been her father.

With Richard Wilson, he was one of the originators of the eighteenth-century British landscape school ; though simultaneously, in conjunction with Sir Joshua Reynolds, he was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century.

In light of Bach's responsibility to provide music to four churches and be able to perform double choir compositions with a substitute for each voice, Joshua Rifkin concludes that Bach's music was normally written with one voice per part in mind.

In 1843 he was one of the founders of the New Englander ( later the Yale Review ), and in 1848, with Richard Salter Storrs, Joshua Leavitt, Joseph Parrish Thompson, and Henry C. Bowen, he founded the Independent, a magazine designed primarily to combat slavery extension ; he was an editor of the Independent until 1863.

His effigy carved in bog oak, however, lies on a mortuary chest decorated with the attributed arms of the Nine Worthies ( missing one – Joshua, and replaced with the arms of Edward the Confessor ).

On July 19, 1879, Holliday and his business partner, former deputy marshal John Joshua Webb, were seated in their saloon in Las Vegas, New Mexico when former U. S. Army scout Mike Gordon got into a loud argument with one of the saloon girls whom he wanted to take with him.

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.

The second one, still during that long battle of Joshua, must have been the eclipse of the sun at noon, in the middle of the sky.

Anathoth () is the name of one of the cities given to " the children of Aaron " ( Joshua 21: 13, 18 ; 1 Chronicles 6: 54, 60 ), in the tribe of Benjamin ( Josh.

The first is that Joshua is the one crowned, not the Branch.

The paintings received favourable comments in the press with one critic referring to him as " the Sir Joshua of futurity not far off " and, aged just twenty, Lawrence received his first royal commission, a summons arriving from Windsor Palace to paint the portraits of Queen Charlotte and Princess Amelia.

The four corner gates of the park have one bust each, depicting Sir Isaac Newton, the scientist ; Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first President of the Royal Academy ; John Hunter, a pioneer of surgery ; and William Hogarth, the painter.

One of the first settlers was Lt. Joshua Treat ( 1729-1802 ), the armorer at Ft. Pownall, whose brother became one of the first settlers of Bangor.

Joshua Frederick Cockey ( 1765 – 1821 ) built one of the first homes in the area in 1798 and built the first commercial structure, a hotel, in 1810 in what would become the village of Cockeysville.

When one of the town's founding fathers Joshua Bruggeman was traveling through New York state to get the town plat lithographed, he came across the town of Salina situated on the edge of Onondaga Lake near Syracuse.

Famous early residents include: Joshua H. Bean, brother of Judge Roy Bean and the first mayor of San Diego, CA ; Orlando C. Phelps, one of the few surviving members of the Mier Expedition ; Edwin Rainwater, hero of the Texas Revolution ; Edward R. Hord, an influential early South Texas statesman ; and John L. Haynes, a native Virginian politician and writer who was an outspoken anti-secessionist and strong proponent of Mexican-American rights.