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  2. The Rats of Tobruk - Wikipedia

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    The defenders had adopted Tobruk's excellent network of below-ground defensive positions which had been built pre-war by the Italian Army. The propagandist for Germany, William Joyce, better known as "Lord Haw-Haw", began describing the besieged men as living like rats in underground dug-outs and caves.

  3. Sarah Rapelje - Wikipedia

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    Rapelje's chair is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York, a gift of her Brinckerhoff descendants. [4] Brooklyn's Rapelye Street is named after the family. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Sarah Rapelje herself was granted a large tract of land in the Wallabout in Brooklyn by Dutch authorities for being the first European Christian female ...

  4. Albrycht Zaborowski - Wikipedia

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    His marriage to Machtelt Vanderlinde on January 8, 1677 (banns on December 17, 1676) produced five children. Jacob Albert Zabriskie (1679–1758)

  5. The Rats of Tobruk (film) - Wikipedia

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    An abridged version was released in the United States in 1951 as The Fighting Rats of Tobruk. The film follows three drover friends who enlist in the Australian Army together during World War II. Their story is based on the siege of the Libyan city of Tobruk in North Africa by Rommel's Afrika Korps. The partly Australian defenders held the city ...

  6. John Throckmorton (settler) - Wikipedia

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    John Throckmorton was almost certainly baptised in Norwich, county Norfolk, England on 9 May 1601, the son of grocer and Alderman Bassingburn Throckmorton. [2] On 20 March 1621, he was apprenticed to a scrivener, but his whereabouts by 1638 had become unknown to his father, and the executors of his father's estate in 1640 could not find him. [2]

  7. Van Cortlandt family - Wikipedia

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    Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, New York derives its name from the family, as well as Manhattan's Cortlandt Street and Cortlandt Alley. The town of Cortlandt to the north, in Westchester County, New York carries the family name as well. The Van Cortlandt House Museum was initially the residence of Frederick Van Cortlandt.

  8. Davidic line - Wikipedia

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    As the proposed son of God, he could not have been a male descendant of David because according to the genealogy of his earthly parents, Mary and Joseph, he did not have the proper lineage, because he would not have been a male descendant of Mary, and Joseph, who was a descendant of Jeconiah, because Jeconiah's descendants are explicitly barred ...

  9. Jonas Bronck - Wikipedia

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    Signing the Treaty with the Indians April 22, 1642, painted in 1908 by John Ward Dunsmore. Jonas Bronck (alternatively Jonas Jonsson Brunk, Jonas Jonasson Bronk, or Jonas Jonassen Bronck) (around 1600 – 1643) was a settler in the Dutch colony of New Netherland after whom the Bronx River, and by extension, the county and New York City borough of the Bronx are named.