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Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904, Anglo-American journalist, explorer, and empire builder, b. Denbigh, Wales. He grew up in poverty and came to America as a worker on a ship, which he jumped (1858) in New Orleans. Originally named John Rowlands, there he took a new name, which he claimed, apparen...
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Emin Pasha
Emin Pasha , 1840-92, German explorer, whose original name was Eduard Schnitzer. A physician, he served (1876-78) under Gen. Charles Gordon in Sudan as a district medical officer. In 1878 he succeeded Gordon as governor of Equatoria, the southernmost province of the Egyptian Sudan. In 1885 he was cu...
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Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston
Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston 1858-1927, British explorer and colonial official. His early interest in the natural sciences was combined with his concern for the political problems of colonial Africa. He began his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa in 1882 and in 1883 encountered Henry Morton Stanley i...
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David Livingstone
David Livingstone , 1813-73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa, the first European to cross the African continent. From 1841 to 1852, while a medical missionary for the London Missionary Society in what is now Botswana, he crossed the Kalahari desert and reached (1849) Lake Ngami. He discov...
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James Gordon Bennett
James Gordon Bennett 1841-1918, American newspaper proprietor, b. New York City; son of James Gordon Bennett . Educated mostly in France, he took over (1867) from his father the management of the New York Herald. In 1869-71 he financed Henry Stanley 's expedition into Africa to find David Livi...
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Stanley
Stanley town (1991 pop. 1,557), capital of the Falkland Islands , S Atlantic Ocean, on East Falkland island. It is the main port and trading center of the islands. The name is sometimes written as Port Stanley. British troops have been stationed in Stanley since 1983, after Argentina's failed atte...
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Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika second largest lake of Africa, c.12,700 sq mi (32,890 sq km), E central Africa on the borders of Tanzania, Congo (Kinshasa), Zambia, and Burundi. It is c.420 mi (680 km) long and up to 45 mi (72 km) wide. The lake lies in the Great Rift Valley (alt. 2,534 ft/772 m) and is the world'...
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Lake Edward
Lake Edward or Edward Nyanza 830 sq mi (2,150 sq km), in the Great Rift Valley, central Africa, on the Congo-Uganda border. It lies at an altitude of c.3,000 ft (910 m), is c.50 mi (80 km) long, and has a maximum width of c.30 mi (48 km). Lake Edward is connected with the Nile system by the Sem...
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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington 1882-1944, British astronomer and physicist. He was chief assistant (1906-13) at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and was from 1913 Plumian professor of astronomy at Cambridge, where he was director of the observatory from 1914. Eddington was one of the first physicist...
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Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner 1889-1970, American detective-story writer, b. Malden, Mass. He served as a trial lawyer for many years. About 1921 he began writing detective stories for magazines; after that time he produced an extraordinary number of novels and stories noted for their fast action and clever...
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