Livingstone, David
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Livingstone, David (1813–73). Scottish missionary and explorer. Livingstone arrived in South Africa in 1841 to assist in the work of the
London Missionary Society. He was soon attracted northward in the hope of spreading the gospel in central Africa. His travels took him first to the Atlantic coast and then across the continent to the Indian Ocean. His encounter with the Arab-controlled slave trade led him to conceive a plan to open Africa to the civilizing influences of Christianity and legitimate commerce. His discoveries brought him fame in Britain and won him the support of the Royal Geographical Society. A second exploratory journey between 1858 and 1864 laid the foundation for Britain's involvement in Nyasaland (Malawi) and the circumstances of his death in the interior of Africa in 1873 proved to be the decisive factor in stimulating British action against the east African slave trade.
Kenneth Ingham
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David Livingstone and the imperial imagination.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 12/22/1991; ; 700+ words
; David Livingstone had a lasting effect upon the way...passionate and opinionated mind. Livingstone was one of the last of the great Victorians...hearted one. Oliver Ransford's David Livingstone, the Dark Interior presents Livingstone...
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Livingstone Is Likely London Mayor
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...his left-wing beliefs. Livingstone wanted the Labor nomination...Skinner, a former ally, says Livingstone as mayor would ``hit the...out opportunist,'' says David Winnick, a Labor lawmaker...the attacks contrast with Livingstone's low-key style. He...
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Livingstone Took Credit for Staging Campaign `Counterevents' Aimed at Bush
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/3/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...campaign, but Clinger said Livingstone, in personnel records supplied...more important role. "Mr. Livingstone's own resume describes his...on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley," Stephanopoulos...Vincent Foster first installed Livingstone in his White House job, on...
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Livingstone goes on the London warpath
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 5/5/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...however, that it is now Mr Livingstone's responsibility to...seriously hindered by Mr Livingstone's wish to return to...Employment Secretary David Blunkett also moved swiftly to congratulate Mr Livingstone on his win and similarly...
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Dr. Livingstone reconsidered. (exhibit on the British explorer David Livingstone)
Magazine article from: History Today; 3/1/1996; 700+ words
; * Presumably, the best known thing about Dr David Livingstone is that quote by Henry Stanley. This month, a new...expand the public's scanty knowledge of the man. David Livingstone and the Victorian Encounter With Africa looks like...
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If only Livingstone had learnt a little from his first and only convert
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/16/1996; ; 700+ words
; In the David Livingstone exhibition, currently at the National...perhaps for washing out bandages. Livingstone left it behind in 1851 as a gift for Sechele, chief of the BaKwena and Livingstone's only convert to Christianity...
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'Dr. Livingstone, I presume' - As Stanley, Aidan Quinn stumbles through the jungle in 'Forbidden Territory'.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 12/4/1997; ; 700+ words
; "Dr. Livingstone, I presume." It's one of the...Stanley spoke it to the missionary David Livingstone, whom he braved many dangers to rescue...middle of Africa? Actually, 'Dr. Livingstone, I presume' substituted for the...
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Dr Livingstone had African love child, say tribal chiefs Newly found papers claim that Scottish missionary explorer was not so saintly
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/27/2000; ; 700+ words
; DAVID Livingstone had a secret African love child...s son went with the box." Dr David Livingstone Wilson, Livingstone's great...George Paton, the chairman of the David Livingstone Centre in Blantyre, Livingstone...
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Timothy Holmes, ed., David Livingstone, Letters and Documents, 1841-1872.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 12/22/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Timothy Holmes, ed., David Livingstone, Letters and Documents...recent historians, was Livingstone's brother Charles, who fed David false information and was...lassitude and ineptitude. Livingstone has been described as a...
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Sunday Comment: Livingstone and Blair are too alike Politics
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/13/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...home to the nomination, Mr Livingstone is sure to be the one with...be made public). But Mr Livingstone will emerge the moral victor...shambolic contest, the plucky David of Cricklewood who took on...the direct link between Mr Livingstone's popularity and New Labour...
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David Livingstone
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
David Livingstone David Livingstone (1813-1873) was a Scottish physician and possibly the greatest of all African missionaries, explorers, and antislavery advocates. Before Livingstone, Africa's interior was almost entirely unknown to...
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Livingstone
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Livingstone city (1990 est. pop. 82,218...Founded in 1905, the city was named for David Livingstone, the Scots explorer. From 1911 to...Rhodesia. Today it is the site of Livingstone Museum, which contains archaeological...
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Livingstone, I presume, Dr
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Livingstone, I presume, Dr the words with which...the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813–73), who in 1866...sent in 1869 to central Africa to find Livingstone; he discovered him two years later...
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Livingstone, David
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Livingstone, David (1813–73). Scottish missionary and explorer. Livingstone arrived in South Africa in 1841 to assist in the work of the London Missionary Society . He was soon attracted northward in the hope of spreading the gospel...
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...commission him to go to Africa to find David Livingstone . Stanley located the great explorer...with the famous words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?," but probably...actually do so. Failing to persuade Livingstone to leave Africa, Stanley returned...
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