David Livingstone
Explorer
Historic house on the market for GBP1.5 million...Evening News site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. A LOTHIANS mansion where explorer David Livingstone planned his adventures in Africa is up for sale for more than AGBP1.5 million. Limefield House,... In this article: James Young, David Livingstone, Glasgow University, West Calder, Nile, and Africa |
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Guardian | 3 days ago
Charles Darwin and his pigeons return to 50 Albemarle Street, London
...but sadly ended in 2002, the publishing house played host to the likes of Benjamin Disraeli, John Betjeman, Kenneth Clark, David Livingstone and James Watt. Busts of the latter two glower down at us from either side of a massive...
In this article: Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, John Murray III, Albemarle Street, London, Randal Keynes, and Piccadilly
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BBC News | 3 days ago
Larwood book wins award
...race finished with the closest winning margin ever. In the Oxford boat was James livingstone, younger brother, and in the Cambridge boat was David Livingstone, older brother. To compound the rivalry, David's schoolfriend Matt Smith was with...
In this article: Harold Larwood, Duncan Hamilton, Oxford, Bodyline, and Cambridge
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thestar.com | November 19, 2009
`Saturday-night shirts' a daily statement
...would own the 100 that qualify for inclusion in the Robert Graham collectors' club. Members get to have a design named after them. A Big Papi shirt? That would be snazzy. David Livingstone is a freelance fashion writer. livingdavid@gmail.com.
In this article: Robert Graham, David Ortiz, Toronto, Coty Award, Boston Red Sox, Ralph Lauren, and Jimmy Fallon
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St. Petersburg Times | November 11, 2009
Backlash against Muslims in military ignores history of service
...of battalions came from what we would call the empire and they fought alongside us and the Americans with great bravery,'' says David Livingstone, a former Royal Navy commander and now a fellow at London's Royal Institute for International...
In this article: Islam, Israel, Fort Hood, Amjad Hussain, Britain, Afghanistan, and United States
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San Diego Union-Tribune | November 10, 2009
Today in History - Nov. 10
...authority of the Continental Congress. On this date: In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa. In 1917,...
In this article: White House, Rock, Yasser Arafat, George W. Bush, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, EgyptAir Flight 990, CBS Radio, USS Triton, Boeing 767, and National Educational Television
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washingtonpost.com | November 09, 2009
Today in History - Nov. 10
In this article: White House, Rock, Yasser Arafat, George W. Bush, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, EgyptAir Flight 990, CBS Radio, USS Triton, Boeing 767, and National Educational Television
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | November 04, 2009
Lives Remembered
Killed by an elephant while acting as expedition guide for a BBC children's programme tracing the footsteps of explorer David Livingstone. He was escorting a television crew through a remote mountainous area of Tanzania when the animal...
In this article: Lee Marvin, Liverpool, London Underground, Michelle Triola, British Army, Transport for London, Oscar, and Nobel prize for literature
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | October 30, 2009
British safari guide killed by elephant in Tanzania
...happened at 10.20am during filming of an episode of the CBBC series Serious Explorers, which traces the footsteps of explorer David Livingstone in Africa. Mr Turner had taken the crew to an area known as the Mburika Mountains, situated...
In this article: Tanzania, Africa, Daily Telegraph, Britain, and BBC
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BBC News | October 30, 2009
BBC man killed by elephant charge
...filming of an episode of the CBBC series Serious Explorers, a spokeswoman said. The show was tracing the footsteps of explorer David Livingstone in Africa. "We understand at this stage that he was charged by an elephant and was mortally...
In this article: BBC, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Tanzania, and Africa
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Sunday Mirror | October 30, 2009
Elephant kills TV expedition guide
The expedition guide for a BBC children's programme tracing the footsteps of explorer David Livingstone in Africa was killed when he was charged by an elephant in Tanzania, the Corporation said. Anton Turner, 38, was assisting with the...
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David Livingstone (19 March 1813–1 May 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in Central Africa. He was the first European to see Victoria Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya), to which he gave the English name in honour of his monarch, Queen Victoria. His meeting with H. M. Stanley gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
Perhaps one of the most popular national heroes of the late 19th century in Victorian Britain, Livingstone had a mythic status, which operated on a number of interconnected levels: that of Protestant missionary martyr, that of working-class "rags to riches" inspirational story, that of scientific investigator and explorer, that of imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial empire.
His fame as an explorer helped drive forward the obsession with discovering the sources of the River Nile that formed the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of the African continent. At the same time his missionary travels, "disappearance" and death in Africa, and subsequent glorification as posthumous national hero in 1874 led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa."
- Birth Date:
- March 19, 1813
- Birthplace:
- Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
- Death Date:
- May 01, 1873
- Place of Death:
- near Lake Bangweulu, Zambia
- Cause of Death:
- Malaria & dysentery
- Burial Place:
- The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster
- Religion:
- Congregationalist
- Nationality:
- British
- Known for:
- Exploration of Central Africa
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