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MARA IS BACK ON HOME ICE 10 YEARS AFTER SKATING AWAY, HE'S FINALLY A BRUIN
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If anyone knows what it means to be a Bostonian, it's Paul Mara.
On summer days, the Bruins defenseman knows the best hour to avoid
Route 3 traffic en route to Cape Cod.
Mara, owner of third base seats at Fenway Park, knows what it's
like to be a Red Sox fan, professing his amazement at Julian
Tavarez's recent complete game and wondering who'll be the closer in
2007.
He knows how boys who grow up in Belmont and star at Belmont Hill
have birthrights to a scholarship at Boston College, Boston
University, or Harvard.
He knows that even more so now. Between the ages of 17 and 26,
Mara had left his ...
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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
; ...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
; ...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
; ...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
; ...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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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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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)
; ...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
; ...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
; ...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
; ...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)
; ...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)
; ...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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