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Roman Exploration Fund.pdf - 1 views

  • The spot proposed for this exploration is close to the railway station, and would be clearly visible from that point.
  • To make some explorations in the garden of the Nunnery near this, where the agger and wall joined on to the cliff of the Esquiline.
  • No one has been permitted to examine this for the last half century; but as this convent will also have to be sold, there will be no difficulty now.
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American Explorers in Palestine.pdf - 1 views

  • It may truly be said that one discovery of Dr. Robinson, that of the arch over the Tyropean valley, has done more to stimulate and promote exploration in the city of Jerusalem than any other before or s
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      this talks about Dr. Robinson who promoted exploration in the city of Jerusalem and stimulated exploration than any other before or since.
  • While a deserved meed of praise is thus gratefully accorded, on both continents, to this eminent American scholar for his pioneer labors in scientific exploration, there is another name which ought to be remembered in close connection with h
  • It was apparently through the inspiration of Dr. Robinson's earlier researches that Lieutenants Lynch and Dale, of the United States navy, conceived the idea of a scientific exploration of the Jordan and the Dead
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  • One of the earliest careful explorations of the source of the Jordan, the report of which is described by Dr. Robinson as ' the first good account that we possess"5 was made in 1844 by Rev. W. M. Thomson, then a missionary of the American Board in Syria, and ever since recognized as standing in the front rank among Palestine explorer
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      here Dr. Robinson mentioned one of the best explorers.
  • AMERICAN EXPLORERS IN PALESTINE. Society that the country east of the Jordan should be reserved as the special field of the American exp
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26 Famous Explorers From History to Modern Times - 1 views

  • Famous explorers exist through the centuries. Ever since humans got the urge to travel, people have been exploring. As technology progressed, the quicker people could travel and the deeper people could explore into the corners of the world. These explorers’ expeditions comes in all shapes and sizes – from those who ventured into solo travel to those who took whole crews with them.
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      this portion talks about how explorers exist through the centuries and they have been exploring.
  • Here is a list of 11 explorers who are all long gone, but pioneered some form of adventurous exploration.
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      on this part they are going to list explorers.
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EXPLORERS - Google Search - 1 views

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    From early pioneering travellers like Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and Marco Polo, who bought invaluable information about the Americans and Asla back to the European continent in a time when most thought the world was flat, to more recent adventures like Ernest Shackleton, Nellie Bly, and Edmund Hillary, so much of our present-day knowledge derives from the work of famous explorers.
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Papers of Augustus Sparhawk, Chief Agent of the Expedition D'Etudes Du Haut Congo - Doc... - 1 views

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    The Committee for Studies of the Upper Congo was founded by Leopold II in 1878 with financing from an international group of bankers, following the British-American explorer Henry ( later Sir Henry ) Morton Stanley's exploration of the Congo River in 1876-77. Leopold hoped to open up the region along the Congo River. Between 1879 and 1882, Stanley, under the auspices of the renamed International Association of the Congo, established several trading and administrative stations along the Congo River, including Leopoldville ( now Kinshasa), and negotiated treaties with local chiefs.
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