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[4] [5] He is the eldest child of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, son and heir apparent of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. Downpatrick's mother, Sylvana, Countess of St Andrews , by birth member of the Austrian Tomaselli family , is a Canadian born historian of Austro-Italian and French extraction.
Stereophoto from the 1871 expedition. Photo of Maiman, a Mohave Indian interpreter and guide, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. The Wheeler Survey, carried out in 1872-1879, was one of the "Four Great Surveys" conducted by the United States government after the Civil War primarily to document the geology and natural resources of the American West.
Spanish expeditions from Peru explored the South Pacific and discovered archipelagos such as Vanuatu and the Pitcairn Islands. Luis Vaez de Torres chartered the coasts of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, and discovered the strait that bears his name. European naval exploration mapped the western and northern coasts of Australia, but the east ...
George Montague Wheeler (October 9, 1842 – May 3, 1905) was an American pioneering explorer and cartographer and the leader of the Wheeler Survey, one of the major geographical surveys of the western United States in the late 19th century. Wheeler was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of John
Day 2 of Amazon's 2024 October Prime Day sales event (formally called Prime Big Deal Days) is underway now, with brand new deals dropping throughout the day until the sale ends at midnight tonight ...
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 73 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running American television serie
Charles Howard-Bury led the 1921 expedition and George Mallory, who had never before been to Himalaya, was included in the team. As events were to turn out, Mallory became the de facto lead climber. Howard-Bury wrote a book about the expedition, Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921, to which Mallory contributed six of the chapters.
Officially launched as The National Today Show, [1] Today is Australia's longest running morning breakfast news program. [2] The show premiered on 28 June 1982. The original hosts, Steve Liebmann and Sue Kellaway , spent four years together before Liebmann left to present the evening news for Network Ten in Sydney.