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L’Orfeo was a opera written based off the story of Orpheus.
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Jamestown is a historic site in east Virginia. Historic Jamestowne is home to the ruins of the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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L’Arianna was due to premier at a sooner date but was recast and produced later in 1608 due to an incident in Monteverdi’s home. A young girl, a possible pupil of his wife, died of smallpox.
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Disease, violence, drought, a meager harvest followed by a harsh winter, and poor drinking water left the majority of colonists dead that winter.
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English explorer, Henry Hudson departs from London, England aboard discovery on his forth, final and fatal voyage to discover a north west passage to the pacific
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In 1616, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, died.
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The Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721.
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four suites by Johann Sebastian Bach from the years 1724-1731
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the last of the thirteen original American colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States.
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an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season.
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a three-movement concerto for two-manual harpsichord solo composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
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known to have been practiced by European colonists. During the colonial era, the practice of slavery in Georgia soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery.