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		Australian Explorers ^Votes:0 In 1788, with the arrival of the first fleet, little was known about this wide brown land which we now call Australia. It was only through the courage and perseverance by many brave explorers, that the Australia we know today, was mapped. These explorers travelled into unknown country and waters, naming mountains, valleys, plains, lakes, rivers, deserts and mapping our coastline. They experienced extreme hardship and danger, many even dying, or like Leichhardt, disappearing into the desert, never to be seen again. They suffered disease, hunger, thirst and exhaustion, all the time facing overwhelming odds. Why did they take such risks? Maybe for some it was part of the job, for others it was curiosity or a sense of adventure. Perhaps for some it was the hope of finding silver, gold or good Read More Go to Site


		Blupete's Literature Page ^Votes:0 &#187 Economics &#187 Fiction &#187 History &#187 Law &#187 N.S. Books &#187 Philosophy &#187 Political &#187 Economists &#187 Essayists &#187 Fiction &#187 Law &#187 Philosophy &#187 Poets &#187 Political &#187 Scientists &#187 Archives. This jump off page will lead one into the numerous sketches on the lives and works of our people of the past. LAW: The Jurists. (General List) LITERATURE: The Fiction Writers (General List) The Essayists (General List) Thomas De Quincey William Hazlitt Montaigne Robert Southey Poets (General List) Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth PHILOSOPHY: Philosophers (General List) Political Theorists and Activists (General List) Lord Acton Francis Bacon Fr?d?ric Bastiat Jeremy Bentham Edmund Burke Sigmund Freud William Godwin Thomas Hobbes David Hume John L Read More Go to Site

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		Discoverers of the Oregon-Trail ^Votes:0 Web This site .. Discoverers & Explorers Who really found the Oregon Trail? In 1800, the American West was still wild country--no cities, no railroads and no cattle ranches yet existed. It was quiet and untouched. People in the eastern U.S.had heard stories about the western mountains and the desert, but no Euro-American had been there. Within a very short time that would all change. Lewis and Clark The Astorians Pike and Long Mountain Men Fur Trading Companies Fremont Lewis and Clark In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson organized a secret mission to send a small party overland to the Pacific--a daunting trek that no one before had tried. Congress met covertly to approve the trip, because Lewis and Clark would be venturing beyond the United States--onto British soil. Jefferson chose his old Read More Go to Site

		Discoverers Web Homepage - links and information on voyages of discovery ^Votes:0 Discoverers Web In this project I try to gather all kinds of information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration. If you have found a source not represented on these pages, or if you have noticed any link on this page to be not working correctly, please (I'm begging you!) contact me ! Apart from this page on this site there is: A large number of biographies and link pages on single explorers or subjects. A special page for multi-page sites on voyages of discovery. An alphabetical list of explorers Exploring is risky business - a list of explorers who died during their voyages A list of changes to these pages Information on the email list discovery@win.tue.nl Awards for these pages Allowance to copy material from these pages and restrictions thereon Explorers by period o Read More Go to Site

		Explorers of the Millennium ^Votes:0 HALL OF FAME Featuring 29 great explorers! TIMELINE A "timely" view of our explorers. NOMINATIONS Who belongs in our Hall of Fame? EXPLORER QUIZ Test your knowledge! EXPLORER LINKS Connect to other great explorer sites. BIBLIOGRAPHY Find out where we got our information. ABOUT US Who are we? Why did we make this site? 1998 AWARD-WINNING SITE A team of fourth and fifth grade children from Sherwood Elementary School in Highland Park, Illinois, USA created this site for the 1998 ThinkQuest Junior contest. It won fourth place in the Social Sciences category. Visit our other ThinkQuest Jr. award-winning sites: Greatest Inventors and Inventions Seeing Disabilities from a Different Perspective Propelled by Pedals Building the Windy City visits since April 1999. Searching for information about gre Read More Go to Site

		FLORIDA OF THE CONQUISTADOR ^Votes:0 Floridians Index\| FLORIDA OF THE CONQUISTADOR JUAN PONCE DE LEON PANFILO de NARVAEZ HERNANDO DE SOTO TRISTAN de LUNA Useful LINKS for Florida of the Conquistadors OF MONARCHY AND MERCANTILISM Unknown to the Indians of Florida, their destiny was being determined by political and economic forces taking place across the Atlantic Ocean in Europe. At the end of the fifteenth century, thousands of daring adventurers would be crossing the ocean to conquer within a few centuries what had taken the Indians thousands to years to inhabit. This "Age of Exploration" was fostered by the development of maritime technology and the belief in an economic philosophy called mercantilism which decreed that a nation that was not self-sufficient will be dominated by its neighbors. At first, it was trade with the Read More Go to Site

		Lewis and Clark: Maps of Exploration 1507 -1814 ^Votes:0 Albert H. and Shirley Small Special Collections Library University of Virginia PO Box 400110 Charlottesville, VA 22903-4110 ph: 434.924.3025 \| fax: 434.924.3143 Credits \| Comments \| Special Collections Library Home \| Search the Library Web Maintained by: mssbks@virginia. edu Last Modified: Friday, November 09, 2007 © The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia Read More Go to Site

		MOUNTAIN MEN AND THE FUR TRADE ^Votes:0 This website is an on-line Research Center devoted to the history, traditions, tools, and mode of living, of the trappers, explorers, and traders known as the Mountain Men. About this Project. Library - Books on the Mountain Men, including their Diaries, Narratives, and Letters. Archive - Fur Trade Era Business Records. Gallery - Artwork of the Fur Trade era, Portraits of Mountain Men, maps and other images. Museum - Pictures and information on Period Artifacts. Bibliographical Resources. Miscellaneous Items of Interest. Search this Web Site for Keywords. E-Mail Discussion Group Links to Related Sites. What's New. This web site is sponsored by members of the American Mountain Men. Read More Go to Site

		Northwest Explorers ^Votes:0 Northwest Explorers Compiled by Stephenie Flora 1271-1791 Explorations of the Pacific Northwest coastline by explorers seeking the Northwest Passage Captain George Vancouver and his voyage along the Pacific Northwest coastline in 1792 Captain Robert Gray discovered the Columbia River on May 11, 1792 while on a fur trading expedition on the Northwest Coast. Lewis and Clark left the mouth of the Missouri River at St. Louis on May 14, 1804. Their goal was the mouth of the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean. My name is Stephenie Flora. Thanks for stopping by. Return to [ Home Page ] All [ Comments and Inquiries ] are welcome. Read More Go to Site

		South-Pole.com: Arctic & Antarctic History on the Net ^Votes:0 SEARCH THIS SITE Welcome to the home page of South-Pole.com. This site is dedicated to the heroic explorers of our polar regions and the surrounding islands. The tales of these brave souls were often related in expedition mail sent home to anxious loved ones and beneficiaries. As you browse through this site, you will witness an extensive mix of reference material that will be useful to philatelists and students of polar history alike. For example, to the left you will notice a letter addressed to Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer (1799-1877), who went to sea at the age of 14. At the age of 20, he played a major role as captain and part-owner of the HERO on the Fanning-Pendleton Sealing Expedition. The following season, as commander of the JAMES MONROE , he and British sealer George Powell togethe Read More Go to Site

		Theice.org ^Votes:0 Welcome to Theice.org Animals Nature Wildlife Wildlife Nature Wildlife Photography Nature Photography Nature Photo Nature Picture Animal Photo Nature Scene Animal Habitat Wildlife Habitat Consumer Protection Alert Can microwave popcorn cause lung disease? California food-flavoring workers were recently diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans. It's a rare and life-threatening form of fixed obstructive lung disease (also known as popcorn workers lung). Aptly named because it has turned up in workers at microwave-popcorn factories, the disease destroys the lungs. Medical Alert ANTIBIOTICS can cause severe crippling tendon, joint and vision damage . These devastating long-term effects can sometimes last for years and sometimes are not experienced until AFTER the drug has been completed. Click Read More Go to Site

		Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons ^Votes:0 Select a language: English Dutch Select a version: Multimedia (Flash) No Multimedia Read More Go to Site

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