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The San Diego Union-Tribune. San Diego; Wasserman, Renata. "Exotic science and domestic exoticism: Theodore Roosevelt and J.A. Leite Moraes in Amazonia." Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 57 (2009): 59-78. online
The Eleanor Roosevelt College (Roosevelt or ERC) is one of seven undergraduate colleges at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). While ERC has students of all majors, the college emphasizes international understanding in its co-curricular programming and general education requirements, requiring students to complete the Making of the Modern World history and writing program ...
The group was led by the hunter-tracker R. J. Cunninghame. [3] [4] Participants on the expedition included Australian sharpshooter Leslie Tarlton; three American naturalists, Edgar Alexander Mearns, a retired U.S. Army surgeon; Stanford University taxidermist Edmund Heller, and mammalologist John Alden Loring; and Roosevelt's 19-year-old son Kermit, on a leave of absence from Harvard. [5]
Candice Sue Millard (born 1967) is an American writer and journalist. She is a former writer and editor for National Geographic and the author of four books: The River of Doubt, a history of the Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition of the Amazon rainforest in 1913–14; Destiny of the Republic, about the assassination of James A. Garfield; Hero of the Empire, about Winston Churchill's ...
In 1914 Fiala accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition into hitherto unexplored parts of Brazil. He wrote Troop "C" in Service (1899) and Fighting the Polar Ice (1906).
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The Department of Dual Language and English Learner Education (DLE) in the College of education at San Diego State University has established the Center for Equity and Biliteracy Education Research (CEBER) to examine the social and linguistic conditions that hinder and promote the advancement of democratic schooling and educational social ...
Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition – Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and Brazilian military officer Cândido Rondon completed their exploration of the River of Doubt (later renamed Roosevelt River) in the Amazon. The expedition achieved its objectives at terrible cost.