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ArchivesRe: Is Endeavour really an existing male English first name?
in reply to a message by Lucille
It is a name.
* Quakers often chose names of virtues like faith, hope, chastity, persistence...
* You can read about Capt. Cook's explorations on his ship, the Endeavor, simply by Googling his name...
On February 14, 1779, Captain James Cook, the great English explorer and navigator, is killed by natives of Hawaii during his third visit to the Pacific island group.
In 1768, Cook, a surveyor in the Royal Navy, was commissioned a lieutenant in command of the HMS Endeavour and led an expedition that took scientists to Tahiti to chart the course of the planet Venus. In 1771, he returned to England, having explored the coast of New Zealand and Australia and circumnavigated the globe.
* Quakers often chose names of virtues like faith, hope, chastity, persistence...
* You can read about Capt. Cook's explorations on his ship, the Endeavor, simply by Googling his name...
On February 14, 1779, Captain James Cook, the great English explorer and navigator, is killed by natives of Hawaii during his third visit to the Pacific island group.
In 1768, Cook, a surveyor in the Royal Navy, was commissioned a lieutenant in command of the HMS Endeavour and led an expedition that took scientists to Tahiti to chart the course of the planet Venus. In 1771, he returned to England, having explored the coast of New Zealand and Australia and circumnavigated the globe.
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