Ambassador Theatre
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Ambassador Theatre (New York). The
Shuberts built the musical house in 1921 on West 49th Street to house musicals, and its inaugural production was the operetta
The Rose Girl. The theatre occupies a narrow piece of property, so designer Herbert J.
Krapp placed the auditorium at a diagonal in order to squeeze in 1,100 seats. The musical
Blossom Time was the house's first major hit, yet the theatre was often occupied by plays as well. In 1935 the Ambassador reverted to showing films and being used as a radio and television studio. But it returned to legit standing in 1956 and continues so today under the ownership of the Shuberts.
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FASHIONING SEXUALITY: DESIRE, MANYEMA ETHNICITY, AND THE CREATION OF THE KANGA, ca. 1880-1900*
Magazine article from: The International Journal of African Historical Studies; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...into the Central African area northwest of Ujiji, destroying existing communities in the...the caravan path and in the markets of Ujiji, Uvira, and other towns with large market...again. Connections: Central Africa, Ujiji, Zanzibar In 1857, Zanzibari women favored...
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Quizzical: once again, Chris Edwards tackles some of life's great mysteries, such as why climbers lose their appetite at high altitudes, why airmail stickers say 'par avion' and how Stanley found Livingstone.
Magazine article from: Geographical; 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Livingstone (right) outside a hut in Ujiji on the shores of LakeTanganyika. As well...the missing explorer. After arriving in Ujiji, he noted: "Had I gone direct from Paris...was forced to go to the trading centre of Ujiji after encountering slave traders, who...
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PLUGGED IN.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 1/7/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...When Stanley finally located Livingstone in the African town of Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika in November 1871, he greeted him with the...taken many forms. Halmi has already journeyed to Zanzibar, Ujiji and Lake Tanganyika to research the story. NBC brings in some...
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'Dr. Livingstone, I presume'? Or 'I assume'?
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/29/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...dispatches, and wound up two years later in the village of Ujiji in Tanganyika. There he heard of an aging white man -- the...was at first incredulous, but the tip sounded promising. In Ujiji a throng of a hundred natives turned out to inspect him. They...
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Dr Livingmoan, I presume; How a 139-year-old letter reveals the great explorer's scurrilous side.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 4/6/2004; 700+ words
; ...Zanzibar. He had heard rumours that a white man had been seen near Ujiji, 750 miles inland. After more than 200 days of hard travel...famine, malaria and dysentery, Stanley finally arrived in Ujiji and spotted a white man among the natives. Removing his helmet...
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Your headwear, I presume: Henry Morton Stanley's pith helmet.
Magazine article from: Geographical; 9/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...helmet, Stanley finally tracked the erstwhile missionary down at Ujiji in Tanzania and uttered his now famous greeting. Donated to...of 1887-89 and a section of the 'Livingstone tree' from Ujiji, under which he finally met his quarry.
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Days Like These
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/6/1999; ; 525 words
; ...of Lake Tanganyika in east Africa: "We are but a mile from Ujiji now, and it is high time we let them know that a caravan is...By this time the Arabs are fully alarmed; the natives of Ujiji, Waguha, Warundi, Wanguaga, and I know not whom, hurry...
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David Livingstone and the imperial imagination.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 12/22/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...the New York Herald after his "discovery" of the Doctor at Ujiji in 1872, and later in his bestseller on the rescue expedition...and had taken advantage of Stanley's unexpected arrival at Ujiji not only to replenish his stores, but also to dispatch letters...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Dark deeds; An African adventurer.(Henry Stanley, Africa's great explorer)(Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 3/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...He came away persuaded that, after their famous meeting at Ujiji in 1871, Stanley shared Livingstone's vision that the spread...have invented after the event his famous words of greeting at Ujiji: "Dr Livingstone, I presume?" Mr Jeal finds that Stanley...
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A disaster, I presume; If the crocs didn't get them, the backstabbing would. A new TV show reveals how a jungle trek in Dr Livingstone's footsteps went horribly wrong.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 6/20/2009; 700+ words
; ...Stanley's famous steps, from one of the best-known chapters of history. It was on 10 November 1871, in the small village of Ujiji on the banks of Lake Tanganyika, in what is now Tanzania, that newspaper reporter Stanley strode up to a small, grey-haired...
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Ujiji
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ujiji , municipality, Kigoma prov., W Tanzania, suburb of Kigoma city, on Lake Tanganyika. Ujiji was an important settlement of Arab and Swahili...ended his search for David Livingstone at Ujiji on Nov. 10, 1871. There are fisheries...
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John Hanning Speke
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...this attempt to locate the rumored Sea of Ujiji and to ascertain the sources of the Nile...Africans, the expedition attained the Sea of Ujiji (modern Lake Tanganyika) in 1858. Speke...being the others—of the Sea of Ujiji. He had also surmised or gathered that...
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Sir Richard Francis Burton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...to ascertain the limits of the "Sea of Ujiji," which had been outlined by missionaries...proceeded westward to the trading town of Ujiji, where, early in 1858, he became the...Nyasa being the others, of the Sea of Ujiji. This was the conclusion of Burton's...
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Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...in October 1871, he uttered the immortal words ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume’ on finding the explorer at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika. In 1874–7 he led an expedition across the continent which solved nearly all the remaining puzzles...
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Tippu Tip
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...followed by two more campaigns along the same route (which he preferred to the more commonly traveled route via Tabora and Ujiji) in 1865 and 1867-1869. It was during the course of his third expedition that he gained the nickname of Tippu Tip, an onomatopoeic...
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