Hudson, Henry

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An English explorer of the early seventeenth century. He discovered the Hudson River while in the service of The Netherlands.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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Barry showed me his room—a one bedroom with a killer view of Riverbank State Park and the Hudson.
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Police then lied to Henry by telling him that if he admitted his guilt, he could go home.
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Henry only signed the statement because he believed that he had to do that in order to go home.
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He once remarked to me that “Henry Fonda turns in the same performance year after year and the critics always call it wonderful.”
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Henry Rowley Bishop, a noted English music composer, died, aged 68.
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Henry Hudson sailed from Gravesend on his first voyage for the discovery of a northwest passage to India.
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Since Henry Hawk could sit in a great elm far up the road and see himp.
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A white woman, Mrs. Henry Jacobi, who had been taken prisoner early in the month, crossed the plain holding a white flag.
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A writer of the day said, “Mr. Hudson is neither better nor worse than the morality of his time.”
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