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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913) is one of the forgotten fathers of modern science

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Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913) is one of the forgotten fathers of modern science. He was born in the village of Usk in Monmouthshire, England. His father died when Alfred was young. Not long after formal schooling ended for Alfred. He joined his brother, William, in surveying a number of English counties over the next four years. This experience was to teach him how to make accurate observations and detailed recordings, skills which would be of immense importance in later life. Shortly after this, Wallace was appointed to the position of drawing-master at the Collegiate School in Leicester. It was here that he met Henry Walter Bates, a fellow teacher who introduced his young colleague to the methods and delights of botany. After two years the friends set out for Read More
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Andres Urdaneta

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Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers Bible Library A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > U > AndrÉs Urdaneta AndrÉs Urdaneta Augustinian, born at Villafranca, GuipÚzcoa, Spain , 1498; died in the City of Mexico, 1568. He had studied Latin and philosophy , but having been left an orphan resolved to devote himself to military life, and in the Italian wars obtained the rank of captain. Returning to Spain he took up the study of mathematics and astronomy , which gave him an inclination for a seafaring life, and induced him to accompany Jofre de Loaiza in an expedition to the Molucca Islands in 1525. He served there for eleven years. On his return to Europe he landed in Lisbon , where he was prosecuted by the Portuguese Government for having told the stor Read More
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PBS - THE WEST - Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

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--> PEOPLE A-C D-H I-R S-Z Sacagawea Santa Anna, Antonio LÓpez de Seguin, Juan Serra, Father Junipero Sheridan, Philip Sherman, William Tecumseh Singleton, Benjamin "Pap" Sitting Bull Smith, Joseph Stanford, Leland Strauss, Levi Sutter, John Tatanka-Iyotanka (Sitting Bull) Terry, Alfred Turner, Frederick Jackson Udall, Ida Hunt and David King Vallejo, Mariano Vanderbilt, William K. Wells, Emmeline Whitman, Narcissa and Marcus Woodruff, Wilford Wovoka Young, Brigham Marcus Whitman (1802-1847) Narcissa Whitman (1808-1847) Among the first American settlers in the West, the Whitmans played an important role in opening the Oregon Trail and left a tragic legacy that would continue to haunt relations between whites and Indians for decades after their deaths. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman Read More
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