Arctic Explorers Set Sights Beyond Crocker Land
American Canadian Norwegian and French expeditions plan extended Arctic work to map Crocker Land and surrounding regions. Leaders MacMillan Stefansson Amundsen Bartlett organize multi discipline studies with geology zoology meteorology and magnetism across Greenland and Axel Heiberg areas in a two year trek.
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Charles N. Lurie
MacMillan
Arctic
Crocker Land
Admire
Peary
North Pole
Donald B. MacMillan
Vilhjalmar Stefansson
Stefansson
Fam Wus Disceverer
Blond Eskimos
Dominion
Northey
Lamp Roment
Canada
Fea
United States
Amundsen
Roald Amundsen
South Pole
America
National Geodphic Society of
MicMillan
Europe
Teefelds
Grant Land
Greenland
Leary
Crocker
Cape Colgate
Cape Thomas Hubbard
American Museum of Natural History of New York
American Geographical Society
University of Illinois
Axel Heiberg
Parry Islands
W. Elmer Ekblaw
Kitzhugh Green
United States Navy
Maurice C. Tanquary
Theodore Allen
Navy
George Borup
Borup
Long Island Sound
Diana
St. xX. WY
Astor House Famed Steps Host to World Figures of Past
The Astor House on lower Broadway, opened in 1826, drew presidents, foreign royals, and literary giants like Lincoln, Dickens, Webster, and Thackeray. Its downfall came with subway construction beneath its walls, ending an era as America’s most famous hotel.
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Astor House
Royal
Autor House
New York
Lower Broadway
Vesey and
Barclay Streets
Woolworth
Post Office
America
John Jacob Astor
Astor Fortune
United States
Taft
Abraham Lincoln
Cooper Union
Prince of Wales
King Edward VII
Daniel Webster
Charles Dickens
Thackeray
Jenny Lind
Louis Kossuth
Alexis
Russia
Aator
Times Square
Broadway
Forty-fourth Street
Park Row
Jacques Knickerbocker
Alfred Wallace examined as a world figure and pessimist
Arthur J. Brinton praises Alfred Russel Wallace, noting his high status in science and the Order of Merit. The piece highlights Wallace’s critique of modern society in Social Environment and Moral Progress, arguing wealth growth breeds injustice and that mental progress may lag behind material gains.
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Alfred Russel Wallace
England
Darwin
Wallace
Dr. Wallace
Arthur J. Brinton
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Robert Bartlett
Roosevelt
Karluk
Hr. M Anderson
Henri Beuchat
Paris
A. Forbes Mackay
Edinburgh
Shackleton
Columbus
Asia
Captain Bartlett
Donald Lb
Karl
THE
Lensign Green
American Press Association
Albert Kaufman