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height="200"> <tr>  <td width="50%" valign="top"> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="johnsmith.htm"><B>Captain John Smith is Saved by Pocahontas, 1608</B></A><BR> <img src="images/1702.gif" width="37" height="52" hspace="5" vspace="5" align="left"><font color="3F3F3F">A young Indian girl saves an English adventurer from execution.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="mayflower.htm"><B>Aboard the <i>Mayflower</i>, 1620</B></A><BR> "...the ship was thoroughly shaken, and her upper works made very leaky." The Pilgrims brave the dangers of the sea to make a new home.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="thanksgiving.htm"><B>The First Thanksgiving, 1621</B></A><BR> "...for three days we entertained and feasted."<p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="adultery.htm"><B>The Price of Adultery in Puritan Massachusetts, 1641</B></A><BR> Eighteen-year-old Mary Latham pays the ultimate penalty for violating the moral laws of her Puritan community.<p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="mohawks.htm"><B>Living Among the Mohawks, 1644</B></A><BR> "The children and young folks to ten, twelve and fourteen years of age go stark naked." A Dutch minister describes living among the Mohawks.<p> </td>   <td width="50%" valign="top"> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="charlesI.htm"><B>The Execution of Charles I, 1649</B></A><BR> The King loses his head during the English Civil War<p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="londonfire.htm"><B>The Great Fire of London, 1666</B></A><BR> The Fire ravages London creating devastation rivaling that of the German bombing raids of World War II.<p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="sunking.htm"><B>Inside The Court of Louis XIV, 1671</B></A><BR> A magnificent feast, a harried chef, a suicide - all in one night. 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