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1821–93, English explorer in Africa. He explored the Nile tributaries in Ethiopia in 1861–62. Going up the Nile from Cairo, he reached Gondokoro i...
(p ´r ) (KEY) , 1790–1855, British arctic explorer and rear admiral. He entered the navy at 13 and made his first voyage to the Arctic under Sir Jo...
(l v´ , l ´v ) (KEY) , 1911–2000, American lawyer, legal educator, and public official, b. Chicago, grad. Univ. of Chicago and Yale Univ. law scho...
(mär ´ä m nt s-sô´r ) (KEY) , 1870–1952, Italian educator and physician. She was the originator of the Montessori method of education for young...
1796–1856, British admiral and Arctic explorer. He accompanied an expedition N of Spitsbergen in 1818 and wrote an account of it in his Voyage of Di...
(Roald Engelbregt Grauning Amundsen) (r ´äl ä´m ns n) (KEY) , 1872–1928, Norwegian polar explorer; the first person to reach the South Pole. He ...