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Star Trek Star Trek
Star Trek BIBLIOGRAPHY Although not popular during its original run in the late 1960s—it was cancelled after three low-rated seasons—the television program Star Trek developed a cult following that is still vibrant forty years later. Over the years, fans have appreciated the Star... Read more
Great Trek Great Trek
Great Trek , the journey by Afrikaner farmers ( Boers ) who left the Cape Colony to escape British domination and eventually founded Natal, Transvaal, and the Orange Free State. Trek is an Afrikaans term, originally meaning a journey by ox wagon. In this most famous trek, 12,000 Boers left the Cape... Read more
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Trek Bicycle Corporation 801 West Madison StreetWaterloo, Wisconsin 53594U.S.A.Telephone: (920) 478-2191Fax: (920) 478-2774Web site: http://www.trekbikes.com Private CompanyIncorporated: 1976Employees: 1,500Sales: $600 million (2005 est.)NAIC: 336991 Motorcycle, Bicycle, and Parts... Read more
Meg Rosoff Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff1958 • Boston, MassachusettsWriterMeg Rosoff made a remarkable debut as a fiction writer with her 2004 novel for young adults, How I Live Now. It won several awards, and reviewers recommended it as a suitable book for adult readers, too. The story takes place in a war-ravaged England of... Read more
alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez (c.1490–c.1557) Spanish soldier. He pursued a military career, serving in Europe before joining Pánfilo de NARVÁEZ in an expedition to Florida in 1527. When it failed, he and three other survivors spent ten years trekking 6000 miles through the... Read more
The Pilgrims Progress The Pilgrims Progress
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Piet Retief Piet Retief
Piet Retief, Mpumalanga/South Africa Founded in 1882 and named after Pieter Retief (1780–1838), a leader of the Great Trek in 1837 when a group of Boers, the Voortrekkers as they became known, left British rule in Cape Colony and moved north into the unknown. A group, led by Retief, broke... Read more
Boer Boer
Boer [Du.,=farmer], inhabitant of South Africa of Dutch or French Huguenot descent. Boers are also known as Afrikaners. They first settled (1652) near the Cape of Good Hope in what was formerly Cape Province . After Great Britain annexed (1806) this territory, many of the Boers departed (1835-40)... Read more
Pietermaritzburg Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg , city (1991 pop. 228,549), cocapital (with Ulundi ) of KwaZulu-Natal, E South Africa, in the foothills of the Drakensberg Range. The city is an administrative and industrial center. Its products include wattle bark extract, furniture, footwear, chocolate, and cloth. Motor vehicles... Read more
Jean Baptiste Marchand Jean Baptiste Marchand
Jean Baptiste Marchand , 1863-1934, French explorer and general. Sent to Africa (1897) to establish French control of the headwaters of the White Nile, Marchand led a heroic trek through uncharted terrain. In 1898 he established a post at Fashoda (now Kodok) and resisted dervish attacks. When Lord... Read more

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