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Doctor Livingstone, I presume? In 1869, New York Herald reporter Henry Morton Stanley was instructed to travel to Africa for the opening of the Suez Canal and to locate David Livingstone, the British missionary doctor who had been missing...
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Cortez and the Conquest of Mexico On November 8, 1519, Spanish adventurer Hernando Cortez and his force of about 300 Spanish soldiers, 18 horses and thousands of Mexico’s native inhabitants who had grown resentful of Aztec rule...
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Royal Air Force Lieutenant David McIntyre and the Scottish Marquess of Clydesdale, flying two open-cockpit Westland aircraft, completed the first overflight and aerial photographic survey of Mount Everest on April 3, 1933. The British...
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American History Magazine
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States feared that Alaska was vulnerable to invasion. To allay those fears, the government embarked on a monumental job of road building through some of the most remote and...
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The government-sponsored transcontinental expedition under the leadership of Captain Meriwether Lewis (right) and Lieutenant William Clark (left) set off down the Ohio River on August 31, 1803. The 40-member expedition wintered and trained...
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Matthew Henson African-American Matthew Alexander Henson, born on August 8, 1866, and four Inuits accompanied U.S. Naval Commander Robert E. Peary when he planted the U.S. flag at the North Pole on April 6, 1909. Henson became an Arctic...
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Osa and Martin Johnson In the 1930s, Kansas husband-and-wife team Osa and Martin Johnson — flying two Sikorsky amphibian aircraft painted in animal motifs — covered 60,000 miles and photographed the land and peoples of Africa....
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Naturalist Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin, born on February 12, 1809, was the English naturalist whose theory of evolution rocked Victorian religion and science. Shortly after his graduation from Cambridge, Darwin sailed as a...
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American History Reviews, Reviews
THE VOYAGE OF THE MATTHEW: JOHN CABOT AND THE DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA, by Peter Firstbrook (Bay Books and Tapes, 192 pages, $18.95, softcover). With this year marking the five-hundredth anniversary of the voyage of explorer John Cabot...
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American History Reviews, Reviews
COOK & PEARY: THE POLAR CONTROVERSY, RESOLVED, by Robert M. Bryce (Stackpole Books, 1,152 pages, $50.00). Author Robert Bryce employs diary entries, ships’ logs, letters, cables, and newspaper transcripts,many of which have only...
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American History Magazine
MAPPING THE COLORADO In 1869, John Wesley Powell defied the myth of the Colorado River’s invincibility and led the first expedition to navigate through the Grand Canyon. by Carolyn J. Hursch “On my return from the first...
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Military History, Reviews
Conquest of the New World, $49.95 from Interplay (800-969-4263 or www. interplay.com), is a DOS-based CD-ROM that sends you back to the 15th century to explore one of five European countries (England, Spain, France, Holland or Portugal) or...
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Mag: American History Archives
Thoughts on History One of my fondest memories from the 15 years that my family and I lived on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, is of a summer day in 1975 when we and several carloads of friends set out to “do” what is known as...
