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  • 41Mairi Hedderwick — at Wishaw library in 2007 Mairi Hedderwick (born 2 May 1939) is a Scottish illustrator and author, best known for the Katie Morag series of children s picture books set on the Isle of Struay, a fictional counterpart of the real life inner… …

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  • 42Claudius James Rich — Claudius Rich Claudius James Rich (March 28, 1787 October 5, 1821), British business agent, traveller and antiquarian scholar,[1] Biography Rich was born near Dijon.[2] His youth was spent at Bristol …

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  • 43Laurence Oliphant — (* 3. August 1829 in Kapstadt, heute zu Südafrika; † 23. Dezember 1888 in Twickenham, heute Stadtteil von London Borough of Richmond upon Thames) war ein britischer Reiseschriftsteller, Diplomat und Okkultist. Im Steampunk Roman The Difference… …

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  • 44trip — 1. verb 1) he tripped on the loose stones Syn: stumble, lose one s footing, catch one s foot, slip, lose one s balance, fall, fall down, tumble, topple, take a spill, wipe out 2) students often trip up by forgetting to add a bibliography Syn …

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  • 45Nonsuch (ship) — The Nonsuch was the ketch that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668 1669 under Zachariah Gillam, in the first trading voyage for what was to become the Hudson s Bay Company two years later. Originally built as a merchant ship in 1650, and later the… …

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  • 46Park, Mungo — born Sept. 10, 1771, Fowlshiels, Selkirk, Scot. died с January 1806, near Bussa on the Niger River Scottish explorer of the Niger River. A trained surgeon, Park had traveled to the East Indies before being chosen by the African Association to… …

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  • 47trip — [[t]trɪp[/t]] n. v. tripped, trip•ping 1) a traveling from one place to another; journey or voyage 2) a journey or run made by a boat, train, or the like, between two points 3) a single course of travel taken as part of one s duty, work, etc.: my …

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  • 48David Thompson (explorer) — David Thompson David Thompson late in life Born April 30, 1770(1770 04 30) Westminster, London, England Died …

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  • 49History of the Ecuadorian–Peruvian territorial dispute — The territorial dispute between Ecuador and Peru was one of the most persistent and seemingly most resistant to resolution of any in the Western Hemisphere. The conflict arose virtually at the birth of these two nations from the Spanish Empire in …

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  • 50Amur River — Chinese Heilong Jiang or Hei lung Chiang River, northeastern Asia. The Amur proper begins at the confluence of the Shilka and Argun rivers and is 1,755 mi (2,824 km) long. It flows east southeast along the Russian Chinese border to Khabarovsk,… …

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