Examples of John Rolfe in the following topics:
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- The work of two men helped the colony to survive: John Smith and John Rolfe.
- John Smith, who arrived in Virginia in 1608, introduced an ultimatum: those who did not work would not receive food or pay.
- In 1614, John Rolfe, prosperous and wealthy, married Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, bringing several years of peace between the English and natives.
- In 1612, John Rolfe, an English businessman, discovered that Virginia had ideal conditions for growing tobacco.
- Although the Indians had grown and smoked tobacco for centuries, their variety was too bitter for the whites and John Rolfe imported a new species from the West Indies and perfected a method of curing it.
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- John Smith, who arrived in Virginia in 1608, introduced an ultimatum to the settlers: those who did not work would not receive food or pay.
- Gold was never found, and efforts to introduce profitable industries in the colony had all failed until John Rolfe introduced two foreign types of tobacco.
- In 1614, John Rolfe, prosperous and wealthy, married Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, bringing several years of peace between the English and American Indians.
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- In the 18th century, Antoine Lavoisier replaced the alchemical theory of elements with the modern theory of chemical elements, and later John Dalton further developed the notion of atoms to explain various chemical processes.
- Rolf Widerøe, Gustav Ising, Leó Szilárd, Donald Kerst and Ernest Lawrence are considered pioneers of the field, conceiving and building the first operational linear particle accelerator, the betatron, and the cyclotron.
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- Rolf Steinhilper formerly of the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, Germany (he is currently at the University of Bayreuth), the energy savings derived from remanufacturing worldwide equal the electricity generated by five nuclear plants or 10,744,000 barrels of crude oil carried by a fleet of 233 oil tankers.
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- When Richard died, his brother John—Henry’s fifth and only surviving son—took the throne
- Here the rebels presented John with their draft demands for reform, the "Articles of the Barons."
- Clause 61 was a serious challenge to John's authority as a ruling monarch.
- The pope rejected any call for restraints on the king, saying it impaired John's dignity.
- John of England signs the Magna Carta.