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Gold dust memories: Sovereign Hill re-creates the Victorian-era opulence of Ballarat.(The Orange County Register)
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BALLARAT, Australia _ Take a bit of Tombstone and Deadwood, add a splash of Colonial Williamsburg and finish off with a topping of Knott's Berry Farm circa 1960, and you have an idea of what Sovereign Hill is like.
The Australian outback settlement started out as a real-life 19th-century boomtown, like Tombstone and Deadwood.
It was rescued from oblivion, like Williamsburg, by a plan to make it a model village showing off the nation's heritage.
To get people to make the one-hour drive from Melbourne into the dry, hot interior, Sovereign Hill has ...
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John Hanning Speke (1827-64): Richard Burton's exploring companion, John Speke was the first European to reach Lake Victoria, which he correctly identified as a source of the Nile.(Late Great Geographers #54)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Geographical
; What was his background? John Hanning Speke was born in Devon on 4 May 1827 to Georgina Hanning and William Speke. He served in the British Indian...out to explore Somalia in 1854, Speke was on leave from the 46th Regiment...
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In speke's ear: Beetlemania?(John Hanning Speke)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Sports Afield
; ...injuries and afflictions suffered by John Harming Speke during his quest to discover the...beetles" swarming about his tent, Speke fell asleep. He quickly awoke when...his ear failed to flush it out, Speke took to lancing the creature with...
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The sad story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, was John Hanning Speke a cad?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 080475571X The sad story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, was John Hanning Speke a cad? Carnochan, W.B. Stanford U. Press...Burton discovered the source of the Nile. No, John Hanning Speke discovered it. The problem is...
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Paperback round-up.(The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia)(The Sad Story of Burton, Speke and the Nile or was John Hanning Speke a Cad?)(The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Geographical
; ...for a curious book--The Sad Story of Burton, Speke and The Nile or Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?--in which Stanford University professor...of 19th-century explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke over Speke's claim to have discovered...
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Captain Speke's artificial horizon: the army officer and explorer used this navigational aid during his search for the source of the River Nile.(FROM THE COLLECTION)(John Hanning Speke )
Magazine article from: Geographical
; Born in Devon in 1827, John Hanning Speke was commissioned into the British...the River Nile. In April 1855, Speke joined Captain Richard Francis Burton...face pierced both his cheeks, and Speke was captured and stabbed several...
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El viajero; John Hanning Speke, 1827-1864.(TT: The traveler; John Hanning Speke, 1827-1864)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad
; La vida de Speke va unida a la de Richard F. Burton (TRIBUNA, nm. 467). Explor el Himalaya siendo oficial del ejrcito ingls. En el ao 1855...
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UNRAVELING SPEKE: THE UNKNOWN REVISION OF AN AFRICAN EXPLORATION CLASSIC
Magazine article from: History In Africa
; ...Eliot, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, and Anthony Trollope...catalog as "MS. 4872-4. John Hanning Speke. Manuscript and proofs...very different from what Speke had originally intended...revision, concerning John Hanning Speke's battle...
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CARTOGRAPHICAL QUANDARIES: THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN BURTON'S AND SPEKE'S SEARCH FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE
Magazine article from: History In Africa
; ...Victoria on 3 August 1858, John Hanning Speke (1859b:397) realized...Richard Burton and Captain Hanning Speke." Yet Speke...lacked empirical support (Speke had, after all, only...outlet of the Nile), Speke reacted with anger...
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'MOUNTAINS' A SMALL FILM ABOUT BIG DREAMS.(Weekend)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...century explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke. Unfortunately, no such clearly...and friendships between Burton and Speke (Iain Glen), the Victorian view...annoyingly scant implication that Speke's motives included homosexuality...
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The fierce couple: Richard and Isabel
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...cities of Mecca and Medina, following which, with John Hanning Speke, he discovered Lake Tanganyika in a controversial...biography, it is of her almost dismissive treatment of John Hanning Speke, who admittedly had many failings. Indeed, following...
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