...- from Gustave Flaubert , whom she met emerging half-naked from the waves and who considered marrying her sister, to the explorer Henry Stanley , who married her daughter; Gertrude herself married a tantalisingly dull lawyer. William...

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...in Maysville and open for self-guided tours until they depart on Dec. 5. The Pinta and the Nina were part of Columbus ' fleet when he sailed to the West Indies in 1492. The wooden replicas are owned by the nonprofit Columbus...

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...chamber, while on the other side a technician manipulates rows of switches to plunge me into arctic hell. It's the same facility used by Ben Fogle and James Cracknell to train for their televised race to the South Pole, and I'm beginning...

In this article: BMW, Guinea pig, Ravel's Bolero, James Cracknell, Honda, and Ben Fogle

...not see them for a very long time. "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves" traces the steps of a treasure hunter as he searches for the lost fleet of Marco Polo. "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves" ( Naughty Dog ; Sony ) traces the steps of treasure hunter...

In this article: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Sony, Mario, Marco Polo, Nintendo, Activision, and Electronic Arts

...in recent months. So I'd still strongly recommend their holiday dinners. As we all know, Thanksgiving is not just about remembering how Christopher Columbus ran game on Native Americans and eventually contributed to the downfall of their...

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... Erasmus ' Praise Of Folly and a very Scottish kind of phantasmagoria. But the presiding spirit is Italo Calvino 's Invisible Cities , where Marco Polo described imaginary cities to Kublai Khan , all of which were and were not his own city of...

In this article: Scotland, Momus, Italo Calvino, Jacobite, Imagined communities, Imperialists, Communism, Capitalism, Marco Polo, and Kublai Khan

In 1909, British explorer Ernest Shackleton aborted an attempt to reach the south pole. He abandoned two cases of scotch at base camp. A century on, we've found it. Whyte & Mackay , the drinks group that now owns McKinlay and Co., has asked...

In this article: Ernest Shackleton, Whyte & Mackay, Norah Jones, Lady Gaga, and New York University

12:00 p.m. ET A team of New Zealand conservators is planning to unearth two crates of Scotch whisky belonging to polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. The crates have been trapped under the Antarctic ice for a century. Host Liane Hansen...

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...Free State was his personal belonging, so the Belgium people are, I believe quite innocent to the genocide. The Catholic Church and Henry Stanley (Doctor Livingstone , I presume...) were very much involved, so let's not leave them out.

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...trader, returning to the settlement on the great North River , which some preferred to call Hudson's River , in honor of the great explorer, Henry Hudson. Also in the canoe is Pale Feather , a half-Indian girl of about 10, conceived during one of...

In this article: New York City, Van Dyck, Edward Rutherfurd, London, Hudson's River, and Doubleday

OMAI never set foot on Australian soil. Yet as the first Polynesian islander to be taken aboard one of James Cook's ships back to Britain , he played his own unique part in demystifying the South Pacific Ocean. Omai joined Cook 's second...

In this article: James Cook, Omai, Tobias Furneaux, Huahine, Society Islands, South Pacific Ocean, Endeavour, HMS Adventure, Tupaia, and William Bligh

...to travel through "spectacular icy seascapes" probably brought to mind romantic images of following in the pioneering footsteps of Ernest Shackleton and recreating in some small way his heroic exploits. But in the end they came a little...

In this article: Weddell Sea, Ernest Shackleton, Ushuaia, Argentina, Antarctica, BBC, and Argentina

... London. The Heart of the Great Alone comprises a breathtaking collection of photographs by Herbert Ponting from Captain Robert Falcon Scott 's Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13, and by Frank Hurley from Ernest Shackleton 's Imperial...

In this article: Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Canterbury Museum, Buckingham Palace, George V, Frank Hurley, and Herbert Ponting

...of whisky were found under a hut built and used by Shackleton Two crates of Scotch whisky which belonged to the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton are to be recovered after a century buried in the Antarctic ice. The McKinlay and Co...

In this article: Ernest Shackleton, Scotch whisky, Roald Amundsen, and New Zealand

Explorers want to recover a rare batch of whisky lost during explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to the South Pole a century ago. Two crates of the now extinct "Rare Old" brand of McKinlay and Co whisky have been buried in...

In this article: Ernest Shackleton, Whyte & Mackay, Antarctica, Scotland, and New Zealand

Many familiar figures from American history make appearances in the story: Benjamin Franklin , who provided critical supplies; Daniel Boone , a wagon driver rather than an Indian fighter in this campaign; and soldiers Horatio Gates , Daniel...

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...of the reconstructed fort at Fort Boonesborough State Park in Madison County. Photo by Tom Eblen | Staff Tom Eblen Scott New portrays Daniel Boone at Fort Boonesborough State Park , which is gearing up for his 275th birthday bash. For...

In this article: Daniel Boone and John Filson