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1. James Cook -- Captain James Cook
   Cook's father found work as foreman at Aireyholme farm in Great Ayton, for Thomas Skottowe, the Lord of the Manor in 1736, when James Cook was 8 years old. The farm sits beneath a popular local viewpoint, a conical shaped hill known as Roseberry Topping. Cook began his formal schooling at the Postgate school in Great Ayton. The school room is now the Captain Cook School Room Museum. Cook’s father’s cottage in Bridge Street, Great Ayton, was auctioned and sold in 1933. After being purchased and presented to the Victoria State Government of Australia it was dismantled and re-erected in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, Australia, where it is open to the public as a museum and is known as Cook’s Cottage.
2. Cook
   The National Beef Cook-Off, the country's premier amateur beef-cooking contest, is focusing on a 'Seize Life' theme which is the essence of the role that beef plays in an active lifestyle. This year's Cook-Off will demonstrate how beef satisfies consumers' appetites, enabling them to enjoy the food they're eating and ... feel good about the choices they've made. Underscoring the industry's commitment to innovative beef dishes, the Cook-Off is introducing four new categories: New Dynamic Beef Dishes, Nuevo Latino Beef Recipes, Kids in the Kitchen, and 'Small Plates, Big Taste' Grilled for Everyday Entertaining.
3. Cook -- Cook Islands
   In October of 1769 Cook was the first European to land on New Zealand. The Islands had been sighted previously by Dutch Captain Able Tasman, in 1642 some 127 years before Cook. New Zealand is named after the Dutch province of Zeelandt (meaning Sea Land).
4. Kangaroo -- Captain Kangaroo
   Captain Kangaroo was the longest running network children's show of all time - from 1955 until 1984, the good Captain could be seen mornings on CBS. Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum played sidekick Mr. Green Jeans, joining Cosmo Allegretti's hand-puppets Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit in the Captain's Treasure House.
5. The Bounty -- Captain Bligh
   A fifth film, The Bounty (1984), starred Anthony Hopkins as William Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian. Of all the films portraying the mutiny, the 1984 version is generally agreed to hold the most historical accuracy.
6. James Cook
   J[A]mes Cook was a very successful explorer. Cook made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean. He discovered such places as New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Fiji Islands, Tonga, Hawaii and Society Islands and He circumnavigated Antarctica as well.
7. Cook Islands -- Cook Islands Maori
   At the Government of the Cook Islands website there is a nice map of Penrhyn with a good history lesson — but no flag. Names: Te Pitaka (the Circle), Tongareva (Tonga floating in space). The present-day Maori name is Mangarongaro which developed from the name of one of the divisions of the large south-western islet. Penrhyn after the "Lady Penrhyn" commanded by Captain William Cropton Lever who landed on August 8th 1788. Another European name was Bennett Island. The Peruvians knew the island as the Island of the Four Evangelists.
8. Donald Cook -- Congressional Medal
   Bath Iron Works' fifteenth ARLEIGH BURKE Class Destroyer is named in honor of Marine Corps Vietnam War hero, Colonel Donald G. Cook. Col. Cook was awarded the Medal of Honor (posthumously) for his extraordinary courage while a prisoner of war. Col. (then Captain) Cook volunteered for a temporary 30 day tour in Vietnam as an observer from Communications Company, Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Marine Division. Accompanying elements of the 4th Vietnamese Marines, Col. Cook was wounded and captured by a vastly superior Viet Cong force on New Year's Eve 1964 near Binh Gia, Phouc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, while on a search and recovery mission for a downed American helicopter crew. The 33 year old Brooklyn, New York, native and father of four set an example and standard for his fellow Americans contrary to the Viet Cong's goal of breaking down the prisoners. Col. Cook's rigid adherence to the Code of Conduct won him the respect of his fellow prisoners and his Communist captors.
9. Cook Islands -- New Zealand
   The Cook Islands are a group of islands in the southern Pacific. They form an independent state, but have strong ties with New Zealand. The 15 small islands have a total land surface of 240 square kilometers. About 18.000 people live on the islands, most of them from tourism.
10. Donald Cook -- Marine Corps
    Donald Cook will operate with aircraft carriers and battle groups in high-threat environments and will ... provide essential escort capabilities to Navy and Marine Corps amphibious forces, combat logistics ships and convoys. These multi-missioned ships are equipped with the Navy's modern Aegis combat weapons system, which combines space-age communication, radar and weapons technologies in a single platform for unlimited flexibility while operating "Forward...From the Sea."

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