Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, who with William Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest in 1804–06. He later served as governor of Upper Louisiana Territory. Born to William L
The fame of Daniel Boone, a legendary hero even at the time of his death, spreadworldwidewhen in 1823Lord Byrondevoted seven stanzas to him in his long satiric poemDon Juan. Boone has been the subject of other works of literature (fiction and biography), paintings, and dramatic productions...
Meriwether Lewis, born August 18, 1774 in Virginia, is best known as the co-captain of the historicLewis and Clark Expedition. But in addition to his role as a famed explorer, he was a young plantation owner, a committed military man, a controversial politician, and a confidant of Presiden...
Until Alice Gozlan and Zacharie Lorent’s theater performance Chroniques d’une exploratrice (“An Explorer’s Chronicle”), I’d never seen Web experience on stage, theatricalized. I don’t mean I hadn't read depictions of a fantasy “cyber-world” such as William Gibson’s Neuromancer ...
James Cooke(詹姆斯·库克), the British explorer, arrived in Hawaii in 1778, there were about 300,000 Hawaiians on the islands; however, infectious diseases reduced the native population. Today, about 20 percent of Hawaii’s people are of native Hawaiian ancestry, and only about 10,000 are ...
The Maine Woods and Cape Cod have their moments as well, but ultimately I think it’s fair to say that Thoreau was less compelling as a traveler of New England than as an explorer of himself. I love both of Bob Pepperman Taylor’s books, and I think that Walden Warming offers an ...
Critics Consensus: 42 is an earnest, inspirational, and respectfully told biography of an influential American sports icon, though it might be a little too safe and old-fashioned for some. Synopsis: In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), legendary manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, defies major...
In an effort to create "a complete, encyclopedic science of Swiss flora" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography), Haller published a major treatise on the subject, Historia stirpium indigenarum Helvetiae inchoate (1768), and amassed an herbarium of Swiss plants that is still used today. He ...
Noted commissions include two ornate English altar wine flagons and an ornate processional cross for an Episcopal cathedral--and the historic gilded silver chalice of noted American missionary explorer Father Jacques Marquette, S.J., used by Pope John Paul II at the 1999 Papal Mass. Noted ...
Padre Felipe followed in the footsteps of fellow Jesuit missionary Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino, the great pioneer-evangelizer (as well as geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer) who served in Sonora and Arizona for 24 years until his death in 1711. Both priests were from wealthy ...