Podcasts about Robert Peary

The Wild West wasn't all shootouts and saloons – but when danger came, it carved legends in blood, bullets, and bone.Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version of #WeirdDarkness: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicateDISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.IN THIS EPISODE: The Wild West, where no matter how tough and rugged you might be, you can never defeat Old Man Death. And he was creative in how he dispensed his touch. (To Die In The Old West) *** Charles Howard Schmid Jr. charmed and befriended the teenagers of Tucson, Arizona in the 1960s — all while brutally murdering three young girls. (The Pied Piper of Tuscon) *** One of the lesser-known crytpids is something called the Hidebehind, a mysterious creature that stalked 19th-century lumberjacks, preying on those who let their guard down in the forest. (The Hidebehind) *** Brianna Maitland left her dishwashing job and was never seen alive again. Despite various theories and sightings, Brianna's disappearance continues to baffle investigators and haunt her family, who still hold out hope for answers and her safe return. (The Vanishing of Brianna Maitland) *** In 1906, explorer Robert Peary claimed to have discovered a mysterious island he named Crocker Land, but was it a genuine find, a calculated deception, or something even more bizarre? (The Myth of Crocker Island) *** Lyndia Morel's quiet drive home took a chilling turn when she encountered a mysterious craft and experienced a baffling episode of missing time. Was it a case of alien abduction? (The Lyndia Morel Incident) *** In May of 1963, a bizarre creature terrorized Centreville, Illinois, prompting over 50 calls to the police from alarmed residents. Descriptions ranged from a "half man, half woman" to a "half man, half horse." (The Centerville Monster)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00.00.000 = Lead-In00:01:31.179 = Show Open00:04:10.280 = To Die In The Old West00:18:52.437 = The Hidebehind00:21:49.129 = The Pied Piper of Tuscon00:26:57.373 = The Lyndia Morel Incident00:40:52.320 = The Vanishing of Brianna Maitland00:48:47.321 = The Myth of Crocker Island00:56:39.194 = The Centerville Monster00:58:37.502 = Show Close, Verse, and Final ThoughtSOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…BOOK: “Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth” by Carol Rose:https://amzn.to/3VpnkKk“To Die In The Old West” source: Quinn Armstrong, Weird History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p884ck2“The Hidebehind” source: Astonishing Legends: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4nj3h5en“The Pied Piper of Tuscon” source: Bernadette Giocamazzo, All That's Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4dzvmspf“The Lyndia Morel Incident” source: Marcus Lowth, UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4v8yewbr“The Vanishing of Brianna Maitland” by Troy Taylor (used with permission): https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2d6fbz5h“The Myth of Crocker Island” source: Kaushik Patowary: Amusing Planet: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdz38sce“The Centerville Monster” by Troy Taylor (used with permission): https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4h8wpeee=====(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: May 29, 2024EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ToDieInTheOldWest

No es fácil, es incluso complicada, pero es sin duda una de las piezas de la historia de nuestro teatro más relevantes. Nos referimos a 'El público' de Federico García Lorca, escrita en los años 30: puro surrealismo, llena de simbolismo sobre el amor homosexual, pero también sobre el amor, en general, sobre el papel de la máscara en nuestra relaciones personales y sociales y el propio teatro. 'El público' es un reto para quienes la dirigen, la interpretan y para quienes acuden a verla. Ahora llega una nueva versión dirigida por Marta Pazos al Teatre Lliure de Barcelona. Una versión que ha escrito el uruguayo Gabriel Calderón, porque la interpreta la Compañía Nacional de Montevideo, que en su día dirigió Margarita Xirgu. Nuestro compañero de Territorio 9 de Radio 3, Javi Alonso, nuestro hombre de cómics, ha entrevistado a Joe Sacco, el periodista gráfico más importante de la actualidad. Hace 30 años publicó 'Palestina', el cómic en el que contaba su periplo por Cisjordania y la Franja de Gaza. Después de este cómic, que fue premiado con el American Book Award, llegaron otros sobre conflictos en diferentes partes del mundo. Ahora vuelve a Oriente Medio con 'La guerra en Gaza', 36 páginas editadas por Reservoir Books, en las que se recopilan las viñetas que publicó por entregas en la web de The Comics Journal.En la Groenlandia que Donald Trump quiere para EEUU, hubo dos compatriotas suyos a comienzos del siglo XX, dos exploradores, Mathew Henson y su ayudante Robert Peary. Se cree que los primeros humanos en pisar el Polo Norte, acompañados de cuatro inuits. Henson y Peary dejaron otra huella en Groenlandia: dejaron descendencia. Estos exploradores tenían la teoría de que, para alcanzar el Polo Norte, hacía falta una súper raza que combinara la fortaleza esquimal y la clarividencia occidental. Pusieron en práctica su teoría que sirve de punto de partida para el documental 'Objeto de Estudio', dirigido por Raúl Alaejos. Se estrenará el 31 de enero. Escuchar audio

In dieser Folge haben wir einen besonderen Gast an Bord: Dominik ist wieder mit dabei und nimmt uns mit auf eine frostige Reise in die eisige Weite des Nordpols. Genauer gesagt geht es um die legendäre Expedition von Robert Peary, der als einer der ersten Menschen den Nordpol erreichen wollte – oder zumindest behauptete, dies geschafft zu haben. Was war das für eine Expedition? Welche Herausforderungen und Kontroversen begleiteten Pearys Reise? Und was sagen heutige Historiker zu seinen Behauptungen? Dominik bringt spannende Geschichten und packende Details über Pearys Abenteuer mit. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören!

In dieser Folge haben wir einen besonderen Gast an Bord: Dominik ist wieder mit dabei und nimmt uns mit auf eine frostige Reise in die eisige Weite des Nordpols. Genauer gesagt geht es um die legendäre Expedition von Robert Peary, der als einer der ersten Menschen den Nordpol erreichen wollte – oder zumindest behauptete, dies geschafft zu haben. Was war das für eine Expedition? Welche Herausforderungen und Kontroversen begleiteten Pearys Reise? Und was sagen heutige Historiker zu seinen Behauptungen? Dominik bringt spannende Geschichten und packende Details über Pearys Abenteuer mit. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören!

IN THIS EPISODE: The Wild West, where no matter how tough and rugged you might be, you can never defeat Old Man Death. And he was creative in how he dispensed his touch. (To Die In The Old West) *** Charles Howard Schmid Jr. charmed and befriended the teenagers of Tucson, Arizona in the 1960s — all while brutally murdering three young girls. (The Pied Piper of Tuscon) *** One of the lesser-known crytpids is something called the Hidebehind, a mysterious creature that stalked 19th-century lumberjacks, preying on those who let their guard down in the forest. (The Hidebehind) *** Brianna Maitland left her dishwashing job and was never seen alive again. Despite various theories and sightings, Brianna's disappearance continues to baffle investigators and haunt her family, who still hold out hope for answers and her safe return. (The Vanishing of Brianna Maitland) *** In 1906, explorer Robert Peary claimed to have discovered a mysterious island he named Crocker Land, but was it a genuine find, a calculated deception, or something even more bizarre? (The Myth of Crocker Island) *** Lyndia Morel's quiet drive home took a chilling turn when she encountered a mysterious craft and experienced a baffling episode of missing time. Was it a case of alien abduction? (The Lyndia Morel Incident) *** In May of 1963, a bizarre creature terrorized Centreville, Illinois, prompting over 50 calls to the police from alarmed residents. Descriptions ranged from a "half man, half woman" to a "half man, half horse." (The Centerville Monster)YOUTUBE TIME STAMPS OR CHAPTERS…00:00.00.000 = Title Story Preview00:01:49.380 = Show Open00:04:29.283 = To Die In The Old West00:18:51.277 = The Hidebehind00:21:47.052 = The Pied Piper of Tuscon00:26:54.843 = The Lyndia Morel Incident00:41:26.997 = The Vanishing of Brianna Maitland00:49:22.035 = The Myth of Crocker Island00:57:52.272 = The Centerville Monster00:59:50.545 = Show CloseSOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…BOOK: “Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth” by Carol Rose: https://amzn.to/3VpnkKk“To Die In The Old West” source: Quinn Armstrong, Weird History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p884ck2“The Hidebehind” source: Astonishing Legends: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4nj3h5en“The Pied Piper of Tuscon” source: Bernadette Giocamazzo, All That's Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4dzvmspf“The Lyndia Morel Incident” source: Marcus Lowth, UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4v8yewbr“The Vanishing of Brianna Maitland” by Troy Taylor (used with permission): https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2d6fbz5h“The Myth of Crocker Island” source: Kaushik Patowary: Amusing Planet: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdz38sce“The Centerville Monster” by Troy Taylor (used with permission): https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4h8wpeeeWeird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. = = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2024, Weird Darkness.= = = = =Originally aired: May 29, 2024CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/to-die-in-the-old-west/

Más allá de una preparación física fuera de serie y una equipación material a la altura del desafío, alcanzar el Polo Norte geográfico requiere una enorme fortaleza mental. El paisaje en la banquisa ártica es mortalmente monótono, sin más referencias que una llanura blanca interminable, un infierno de hielo en torno al punto teórico atravesado por el eje de rotación terrestre. Un destino invisible e inasible, pues lejos de ser tierra firme es un trozo de hielo a la deriva. Pese a los innumerables peligros y lo ruinoso de la empresa, cientos de expediciones intentaron conquistarlo entre los siglos XIX y XX. Ningún humano consiguió llegar (pese a las falsas reclamaciones de Frederick Cook y Robert Peary) hasta que el noruego Roald Amundsen y el italiano Umberto Nobile lo sobrevolaron en dirigible en 1926. El físico e investigador de la historia de la exploración polar Javier Cacho nos ayuda a comprender las características de este medio tan hostil como fascinante, en cuya exploración se han perdido miles de vidas a lo largo de cinco siglos. El geógrafo Eduardo Martínez de Pisón y el divulgador científico Javier Peláez completan el retrato de este destino anhelado y extremo. Además revivimos las sensaciones y emociones de la ambiciosa expedición organizada en 1999 por el programa de Televisión Española 'Al filo de lo imposible' en colaboración con las Fuerzas Armadas; el teniente general Curro Gan y el director del espacio, Sebastián Álvaro, nos acompañan en una arriesgada travesía de más de mil kilómetros desde Siberia hasta los 90 grados de latitud norte. Una región que está acusando, con preocupante intensidad, los efectos del calentamiento global: las investigadoras del Instituto de Ciencias del Mar del CSIC Carolina Gabarró y Vanessa Balagué nos permiten perfilar la magnitud del problema.Escuchar audio

Más allá de una preparación física fuera de serie y una equipación material a la altura del desafío, alcanzar el Polo Norte geográfico requiere una enorme fortaleza mental. El paisaje en la banquisa ártica es mortalmente monótono, sin más referencias que una llanura blanca interminable, un infierno de hielo en torno al punto teórico atravesado por el eje de rotación terrestre. Un destino invisible e inasible, pues lejos de ser tierra firme es un trozo de hielo a la deriva. Pese a los innumerables peligros y lo ruinoso de la empresa, cientos de expediciones intentaron conquistarlo entre los siglos XIX y XX. Ningún humano consiguió llegar (pese a las falsas reclamaciones de Frederick Cook y Robert Peary) hasta que el noruego Roald Amundsen y el italiano Umberto Nobile lo sobrevolaron en dirigible en 1926. El físico e investigador de la historia de la exploración polar Javier Cacho nos ayuda a comprender las características de este medio tan hostil como fascinante, en cuya exploración se han perdido miles de vidas a lo largo de cinco siglos. El geógrafo Eduardo Martínez de Pisón y el divulgador científico Javier Peláez completan el retrato de este destino anhelado y extremo. Además revivimos las sensaciones y emociones de la ambiciosa expedición organizada en 1999 por el programa de Televisión Española 'Al filo de lo imposible' en colaboración con las Fuerzas Armadas; el teniente general Curro Gan y el director del espacio, Sebastián Álvaro, nos acompañan en una arriesgada travesía de más de mil kilómetros desde Siberia hasta los 90 grados de latitud norte. Una región que está acusando, con preocupante intensidad, los efectos del calentamiento global: las investigadoras del Instituto de Ciencias del Mar del CSIC Carolina Gabarró y Vanessa Balagué nos permiten perfilar la magnitud del problema. Escuchar audio

Los hielos árticos conforman el paisaje más desolado e inhóspito del planeta, pero al mismo tiempo atraen poderosamente a científicos y aventureros desde hace siglos. El Polo Norte, esta vasta región de mar congelado ha sido escenario de gestas y dramas en la época heroica de la exploración polar. Cientos de barcos y miles de navegantes se perdieron en el empeño de abrir nuevas rutas para conquistar el inasible punto atravesado por el eje de rotación terrestre.La expedición del británico John Franklin, engullida por el hielo en su intento de descubrir el paso del Noroeste, impulsó decenas de misiones de rescate, que acabaron tornando en una carrera por plantar la bandera respectiva en el Polo Norte. Se atacó la banquisa por diversas rutas, pero fue cuando el noruego Fridtjof Nansen ideó un buque, el Fram, capaz de superar el invierno ártico sin ser aplastado por el hielo marino, cuando empezaron a mejorar las posibilidades de éxito. La prensa jugó un destacado papel, tanto emocionando al público como en calidad de patrocinadora de exploradores, aunque la ética no siempre primó sobre los intereses comerciales. Fue el caso de los estadounidenses Robert Peary y Frederick Cook, que nunca llegaron al polo pese a proclamar haberlo conseguido en 1909 y 1908 respectivamente; sus falsas gestas fueron defendidas y difundidas por los periódicos que las financiaron.Los primeros humanos que sobrevolaron sin sombra de duda el punto de latitud 90º norte fueron los tripulantes del dirigible Norge, en una travesía ideada por el noruego Roald Amundsen y pilotada por el italiano Umberto Nobile en 1926. Hubo que esperar hasta 1948 para que el explorador soviético Aleksandr Kuznetsov lo pisara físicamente.En las últimas décadas el interés científico ha aumentado de forma proporcional a la pérdida de hielo como consecuencia del cambio climático. La aceleración del proceso es muy preocupante; pronto tendremos veranos con el océano Glacial Ártico completamente líquido, un escenario que agravará la perturbación de las corrientes marinas y la fauna subacuática, así como el calentamiento global. Paradójicamente, el drama ambiental beneficiará a potencias como Rusia y China por la apertura de nuevas rutas de navegación.El documental de Álvaro Soto Polo Norte, la llamada del extremo recorre la apasionante historia de su exploración con la ayuda del catedrático de geografía de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Eduardo Martínez de Pisón, el físico y explorador Javier Cacho y el divulgador Javier Peláez. Además, pone el foco sobre la única expedición española que ha alcanzado el polo boreal desde Siberia, organizada por el programa de Televisión Española Al filo de lo imposible en 1999 en colaboración con el Grupo Militar de Alta Montaña. La recuerdan el creador y director del espacio, Sebastián Álvaro, y el líder de aquel histórico desafío, el teniente general Curro Gan. Intervienen también en el documental dos científicas del Instituto de Ciencias del Mar del CSIC: la delegada del comité Internacional de Ciencias del Ártico Carolina Gabarró y la ecóloga microbiana Vanessa Balagué.Escuchar audio

Journalist Darrell Hartman tells the story of two American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook who both claimed to have discovered the North Pole.Then, Novelist Ruta Sepetys explores what makes a story that leaves an indelible mark on the reader or listener.

durée : 00:14:45 - Les Odyssées - par : Laure Grandbesançon. - En septembre 1909, Frédéric Cook et Robert Peary déclarent chacun avoir découvert le pôle nord. Qu'est-ce que c'est que cette embrouille ? Le pôle Nord géographique, ce point mythique et invisible, qui a coûté la vie à tant d'explorateurs, viendrait d'être découvert… DEUX FOIS ?

April 6, 1909. Robert Peary leads an expedition to the Arctic and declares himself the first man to reach the North Pole.Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The country's oldest amateur tennis tournament, The Ojai Tennis Tournament, affectionately known as "The Ojai" returns April 26-30 with 1,400 players and 500 volunteers. Steve Pratt and Brian Teacher join us to talk about the tournament's astonishing history and importance to the world of tennis. Teacher, multiple Ojai champion, winner of the Pac-8 single and doubles title in 1974 and a member of the UCLA squad that won the NCAA title in 1974 and 1975, was recently entered on the Wall of Fame in Libbey Park. Pratt, communications director of the tournament, was on hand to talk about Teacher's incredible career as well as The Ojai's return to full vigor after three years of pandemic-related interruptions and curtailments. There was also pickleball talk. Teacher, once ranked no. 7 in the world, went pro after UCLA and won the Australian Open in 1980. Along the way, he beat legends like fellow UCLA Bruins Arthur Ashe and Jimmy Connors. He now runs his eponymous Tennis Academy in South Pasadena. He has also developed an application called Full Court Teaching App that keeps comprehensive records of a player's games and form and allows coaches from all over the world to analyze and advise. It also makes it easier to hire coaches and get real-time help from anywhere with an internet connection. We talked about the changes in the game since Teacher's pro days, the physical demands of the sport and of all high-level athletics, the rigors of the road and where tennis goes next. The behind-the-scenes glimpses into the massive logistical challenge of The Ojai was also discussed. We did not talk about Robert Peary's North Pole expedition, why hot water freezes faster than cold, or the development of the Wankel engine.

In this episode of Another Great Day, hosts Aaron and Chris kick off the show by thanking their sponsor, water, the essence of life. They then dive into the BEST SEGMENT EVER, discussing the topic of the day: What's the BEST bug? Listeners are encouraged to share their own "BEST THING" topics on the show's Instagram page. Moving on to THIS DAY IN HISTORY, the hosts explore Robert Peary's almost reaching the North Pole in 1909, accompanied by his assistant and four Inuits. The Question of the Day follows, asking listeners what they would want to throw the most in a food fight. After a dad joke break, the hosts return for the Word of Wisdom segment, sharing a thought-provoking proverb from Proverbs 21:14 about gifts and bribes. They wrap up the show by reminding listeners of their mission to encourage interaction, creativity, and conversation, and encourage listeners to continue their discussions even after the show has ended. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anothergreatday/message

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 776, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "bea"s 1: Paul's group before Wings. The Beatles. 2: A lighthouse, or a radio transmitter that guides aircraft. Beacon. 3: Interesting things are often found off this "path". The Beaten Path. 4: This ship's 5-year mission: to boldly take Darwin where he hadn't been before. the Beagle. 5: Among the Muppets, he's Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's assistant. Beaker. Round 2. Category: congressional districts 1: Of Colorado's 7 congressional districts, 3 are partly within this metropolis and its suburbs. Denver. 2: Limiting immigration is one of the main causes of Rep. Lamar Smith, from this state's 21st district. Texas. 3: Represented by John Mica, the 7th district in this state is home to St. Augustine, the USA's oldest city. Florida. 4: Charlie Melancon represents Houma, New Iberia and Chalmette for this state's 3rd, y'all. Louisiana. 5: It's the main city in Ohio's 14th district, once a rubber center and now called "Polymer Valley". Akron. Round 3. Category: mysteries 1: As you might expect, this continent is the setting for Elspeth Huxley's "Murder on Safari". Africa. 2: 1st cousins Dannay and Lee wrote the Ellery Queen stories under this pen name. Ellery Queen. 3: This agency's symbol of an unblinking eye gave birth to the phrase "private eye". the Pinkerton agency. 4: No one knows how "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" ends since this author died while writing the book. Charles Dickens. 5: Tony Hillerman writes novels about Jim Chee, a detective on this Indian tribe's police force. the Navajo. Round 4. Category: 1982 1: Yasir Arafat met with this Jordanian king to discuss the possibility of a Palestinian confederation. King Hussein. 2: For this north African country's support of terrorism, the U.S. barred imports of its oil. Libya. 3: Newsweek said this '82 strike forced husbands to talk to their wives for 8 consecutive Sundays. pro football strike. 4: After Alexander Haig resigned, he was named secretary of state. George P. Shultz. 5: On May 1, 1982, President Reagan officially opened the World's Fair in this Southern city. Knoxville, Tennessee. Round 5. Category: 1902 1: In 1902 he published his newest Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Hound of the Baskervilles". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 2: He and Matthew Henson made their first serious attempt to reach the North Pole, but it would take 7 more years. Robert Peary. 3: After 3 years of fighting, this South African war came to an end. the Boer War. 4: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet and essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 5: When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school. Oxford University. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Sagaen om røvdyret Peary fortsætter! I vores allerførst two-parter episode ser vi nærmere på polar-forskeren og eventyreren Robert Peary. Den rockstar-agtige ismand var alt andet end en gentleman. For han SKULLE nemlig komme først. Altså til Nordpolen. I jagten på titlen som den første mand på verdens nordlige punkt pissede Peary på alt og alle omkring sig - og måtte måske endda ty til metoder, der ville få selv Milena Penkowa til at kalde 'snyd'. Da vi forlod historien i sidste afsnit var Robert Peary netop hjemvendt til New York med en værdifuld last: En stor, stjålen meteorit og noget ganske særligt og forfærdeligt... --------------------- REKLAME: Dagens afsnit er sponsoreret og betalt af måltidskasser fra HelloFresh. Brug rabatkoden "ReturVVH" for at få rabat som tilbagevendende kunde. ELLER brug koden "FlashVVH" til at få del i deres flashsale, hvor du får fem kasser med en besparelse på op til over 1000 kr. Flash-tilbuddet gælder fra mandag, d. 13. februar. Tusind tak til sponsoren for at hjælpe os med at holde podcasten gratis! --------------------- Dagens Øl: À tue-tête, Nano Brewery Find billetter til live-shows på: vanvittigverdenshistorie.dk/live-shows Se Vanvidsbarometeret på: barometerbjarke.dk

Tag med på ekspedition med en af historiens mest notoriske røvhuller - nemlig polarforskeren Robert Peary. Uanset hvor røvdyret Peary satte sine fødder formåede han at gøre livet nederen for alle omkring sig. Ikke mindst for de indfødte, der både måtte finde sig i at blive taget ved næsen - og at han stjal deres vibranium-sten uden samtykke. Men hvordan blev Robert Peary så stort et pikhoved? I den første del af vores allerførste two-parter dykker vi ned i Robert Pearys super villain-origin story og hans ambitiøse - og fuldstændigt sindssyge - mål om at nå nordpolen før nogen anden. Koste hvad det ville. --------------------- REKLAME: Dagens afsnit er sponsoreret og betalt af Saxo Streaming. Frem til 26. Februar 2023 kan du få 3 mdr. til 33. kroner om måneden, som du kan opsige når du lyster. Derefter koster det betale 139 kroner om måneden. Tusind tak til sponsoren for at hjælpe os med at holde podcasten gratis! --------------------- Dagens Øl: Heimat Feelings, orca brau (8 %) Find billetter til live-shows på: vanvittigverdenshistorie.dk/live-shows Se Vanvidsbarometeret på: barometerbjarke.dk

On April 6th 1909, deep inside the Artic Circle after months on the ice, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson and their four Inuit guides reached what they thought was the North Pole. But, as Edward J. Larson tells Don, Peary's measurements and the speed of their journey were immediately called into question. Nonetheless, Congress voted to recognise Peary's expedition as the first to reach the North Pole, dismissing a rival's claim to have done it a year earlier.Produced by Benjie Guy. Mixed by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer: Charlotte Long.For more History Hit content, subscribe to our newsletters here.If you'd like to learn even more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad-free podcasts, and audiobooks at History Hit - subscribe today!

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fountains 1: Architect Nicola Salvi designed this, often called the last great baroque monument in Rome. Trevi Fountain. 2: A fountain in front of this kids' cable network's studios in Orlando spurts out green slime. Nickelodeon. 3: Andrea Del Verrocchio sculpted his bronze "Boy With" this sea creature for a Medici villa. Dolphin. 4: This statue in the Louvre once stood in a fountain on the Greek isle of Samothrace. Winged Victory. 5: King Matyas Corvinus and his beloved Ilonka adorn the Matyas Fountain at this Hungarian city's Royal Palace. Budapest. Round 2. Category: Day Time 1: The first day of the week mentioned by name in "Robinson Crusoe" isn't Friday but this (1st day is a clue). Sunday. 2: In English, it's alphabetically the last day of the week. Wednesday. 3: J. Wellington Wimpy often said, "I will gladly pay you" this day "for a hamburger today". Tuesday. 4: Day of the week that's the English equivalent to the Latin Saturni dies. Saturday. 5: G.K. Chesterton wrote of a "Man Who Was" this day. Thursday. Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 1902 1: When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school. Oxford University. 2: In 1902 he published his newest Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Hound of the Baskervilles". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 3: He and Matthew Henson made their first serious attempt to reach the North Pole, but it would take 7 more years. Robert Peary. 4: After 3 years of fighting, this South African war came to an end. the Boer War. 5: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet and essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Round 2. Category: French Menu 1: Canard aux mangues is duck served with this tropical fruit. mango. 2: I crave some sauce moutarde, named for this ingredient; I'll put in on everything. mustard. 3: We know these squashes by an Italian name, but to the French they're courgettes. zucchini. 4: In France this huge melon, called a pasteque, may be filled with wine before it's served. watermelon. 5: Bifteck. Steak. Round 3. Category: Where It's "At" 1: Goldthwait's moniker. Bobcat. 2: It's his political party. Democrat. 3: Omar Khayyam's handiwork. "The Rubaiyat". 4: This neck scarf is named for its resemblance to one worn by Croatian soldiers. Cravat. 5: The Captain and Tennille sang of this kind of beastly love. "Muskrat Love". Round 4. Category: "X" Rated 1: The narration that opened this TV show began, "A mighty princess forged in the heat of battle...". Xena: Warrior Princess. 2: Located in Cincinnati, it's one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. Xavier. 3: The horizontal number line in a Cartesian plane coordinate system. the x-axis. 4: William B. Davis played the mysterious Cigarette-Smoking Man on this Fox show. The X-Files. 5: From the Greek, it's literally someone who likes foreigners and foreign things. a xenophile. Round 5. Category: Throwing The Book At You 1: "Alexey... was the

In this episode, Chris welcomes back Omar AKA “The Uncanny Omar” from the YouTube channel “Near Mint Condition” to explore his favorite series of all-time, “The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck”. Don Rosa crafts what many consider to be his magnum opus of storytelling and art looking at the life of Scrooge McDuck. From his shoeshine stand as a plucky young lad to his globe-spanning quests for long-lost treasures as an adult, Uncle Scrooge McDuck has lived a life of legend ― a legend founded by Scrooge's creator Carl Barks and rocketed to new heights by Don Rosa in his signature series, “The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck”! From his shoe-shining boyhood in Glasgow, Scotland, to his gold-hoarding adulthood in Duckburg, Calisota, Uncle Scrooge McDuck has lived a life of legend. Join Scrooge, a very young Donald Duck, the Beagle Boys, Flintheart Glomgold, and more for Scrooge's epic life story ― with plenty of guest stars along the way, including P.T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill, Geronimo, Jesse James, Jack London, Czar Nicholas II of Russia, Annie Oakley, Robert Peary, and President Theodore Roosevelt. Near Mint Condition on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NearMintConditionNear Mint Condition on Twitter: @NearMintConGeek Ultimate Alliance on Twitter: @GUAPodNetworkWFTB on Twitter: @FinestBelieversWFTB Email: worldsfinesttruebelievers@gmail.comChris on Twitter: @ChrisBalgaSupport The Alliance On Patreon & Get Ad-Free, Exclusive, Early Episodeshttps://www.patreon.com/guanetworkGeek Ultimate Alliance Network Is Produced By GeekVerse Podcast www.geekverse.caNetwork Schedule Monday: Rangers Alliance/Slice of Film (Bi-Weekly)Tuesday: DC Alliance Wednesday: Superhero DiscussionsThursday: Star Wars AllianceFriday: Marvel Alliance Saturday: A Walk Through the Multiverse (Bi-Weekly)Sunday: World's Finest True Believers (Monthly)Follow the respective shows on Twitter so when they record live on GeekVerse Podcast Network you can join the chat and add to the conversation!

I mange år strålede amerikanske Robert Pearys navn allerstærkest af alle de opdagelsesrejsendes navne. Han blev den mest berømte arktiske eventyrer, da han påstod at have nået Nordpolen som den første. Men i stedet for Peary skal du høre om dem, som stod i Pearys skygge. Dem som gjorde ekspeditionerne mulige, og som kun de færreste kender i dag. Du skal høre om hans hjælper, Matthew Henson, der fulgte Peary på alle store polare ekspeditioner gennem 18 år. De skal også høre om Odaaq, der med sine kundskaber og store viden spillede en afgørende rolle for Peary. Medvirkende: Lisbeth Valgreen, cand.mag i grønlandske og arktiske studier, forfatter og redaktør. Tidligere kulturmedarbejder i det grønlandske hus i København og arkivchef ved Arktisk Institut.

I mange år strålede amerikanske Robert Pearys navn allerstærkest af alle de opdagelsesrejsendes navne. Han blev den mest berømte arktiske eventyrer, da han påstod at have nået Nordpolen som den første. Men i stedet for Peary skal du høre om dem, som stod i Pearys skygge. Dem som gjorde ekspeditionerne mulige, og som kun de færreste kender i dag. Du skal høre om hans hjælper, Matthew Henson, der fulgte Peary på alle store polare ekspeditioner gennem 18 år. De skal også høre om Odaaq, der med sine kundskaber og store viden spillede en afgørende rolle for Peary.Medvirkende: Lisbeth Valgreen, cand.mag i grønlandske og arktiske studier, forfatter og redaktør. Tidligere kulturmedarbejder i det grønlandske hus i København og arkivchef ved Arktisk Institut.

Who was the first person to reach the actual North Pole? Most people have never heard of Matthew Henson, a Black American explorer who dared to go on an adventure north in 1909. Discover his incredible journey from a sailor to a bonafide explorer who made history. From blizzards to his friendship with the Innuit to finally setting foot at the North Pole, join the adventure and learn about a story often untold in history.  About the Host Thomas Lundy is a director, writer and stand-up comedian from Portland, OR.  About Honest History Honest History creates award-winning books, magazines, and this show for young historians across the world. Our mission is to inspire kids to create a positive impact on history themselves. Learn more at honesthistory.co and @honesthistory. Credits This episode was written by Heidi Coburn and produced by Randall Lawrence. Original theme music was written and recorded by Luke Messimer. More Enjoy this episode? Share with your friends and don't forget to rate and review. See you next time!

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> Find galleries, blog posts and many more episodes at www.mountainairpodcast.ukEpisode 2#08 sits down with the charming and disarming J.R. Harris. Since 1966, J. Robert Harris has undertaken more than 50 multi-week trips into the world's wild places: “all unsupported and most of them alone”. He's driven to where the US road systems end (or did in the late 60s), 120 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska, and he's since been above the Arctic Circle 15 times (“there's a lot I want to see up there”, he says). He's tracked down caribou migrations in the Yukon, lived amongst Inuit people, and walked some of the finest hiking trails in the Dolomites, on New Zealand's South Island, in Chilean Patagonia and in the North American Rockies. And, after a lifetime of making dramatic journeys an annual habit, in 2017 he published his first memoir: Way Out There: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker.Perhaps most impressively of all though is this: he's just a regular guy from New York. Well, perhaps not so regular. He grew up poor in one of the city's many low-income housing projects with a lot of family love and support, but no money to make his ambitions happen… and the outdoors wasn't even a part of his thinking until the Boy Scouts introduced him to landscapes without pigeons, concrete and cockroaches. He got a job, earned himself a scholarship and put himself through university at Queen's College. After graduation, he founded his own marketing company and settled into a life of work, family, and meticulous planning of audacious adventures all across the planet.Since 1993 he's been a member of the prestigious Explorer's Club, and in recent years he's dedicated himself to giving motivational talks to schools, clubs and social organisations. J.R.'s message is simple: if he can do it, then you can do it.> Find out all about J.R. at https://www.jrinthewilderness.com/Listen, enjoy, tell your friends, subscribe to the podcast if you get and chance, and thank UKHillwalking.com for their kind support of this series![episode recorded on 09/06/22]00:00 - Introduction02:35 - Welcome, a native New Yorker with a 50 or 60 Grateful Dead t-shirts05:45 - Growing up in the projects, “life was tough, but you get a certain knowledge that doesn't come through books or school”07:40 - A “kicking and screaming” sign up for the Boy Scouts, “it was not compatible with growing up in the city”. 09:00 - “The first time I ever saw grass I tried to smoke it”12:20 - Requisitioning food and heading out into the wild to be alone with nature: “I would spend most of my time in the summer off by myself”14:00 - “There were very few black kids there. It was probably a combination of parents who couldn't afford it, and a crazy notion that Boy Scouts wasn't really the kind of thing that a black kid from the street in New York city would want to be in. That was the mindset back then”.15:05 - “I was a different guy when I came back… and I got a lot of respect somehow”.16:45 - “My folks told me when I was young that they would give me everything they could that I would need to be successful. But they also told me that everything they gave me would not be enough, and that if I wanted to fulfil my dreams - whatever they may be - I was pretty much going to have to make that happen”, working, being awarded a scholarship and attending Queen's College to study Psychology.20:40 - First travels: “a piece of crap Volkswagen Beetle” and a 9,000 mile road trip as far north as roads go, 120 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska (“there would be no vehicles between me and the North Pole”).23:50 - “I want to know what's behind those mountains. I want to know what rivers, valleys and wildlife… and what it's like to be back there.”26:00 - “... sitting on the back of my car holding two coins: a quarter and a dime. And that 35 cents was the last money I had.”30:20 - A career in market research, starting a business “Don't convince yourself that it's impossible. If you want to do it, just figure out how to do it and go do it”. JRH Marketing Services is now “the oldest African-American-owned marketing consulting firm in the United States”.33:40 - Mixing multi-week global trips with an adult life (“it's funny how they add up to 50 so quickly”)36:30 - What makes it special to travel alone? (“I've never been lonely out there, and I've never come back early from a trip”)40:20 - “I'm a curious guy with a valid credit card”44:00 - “The smartest thing I ever did in all these trips was to keep a journal… now I'm pushing 80 I'm still doing trips, I'm still writing journals”46:18 - Contrasting the different environments around the world.49:00 - “I plan very intricately, and I take the time to send away for topo maps”, researching long-distance trips in the pre-internet age.51:10 - Gear chat, testing outdoor kit for Backpacker magazine (“nobody can tell me my pack is too heavy, because nobody's carrying it but me”)54:50 - “I'm using the same Thermarest mattress that I was using in 1980”55:45 - Hand-rolled cigars and a pint of Cognac (“it's going to last you 18 days”)59:30 - Is there anyone that's inspired you? “To be totally honest: no. And the reason is: there was nobody. I always wanted to be an explorer, but there was never any explorer I could look up to. I knew somebody like Matthew Henson who went to the North Pole in 1909 was a black man. But they never taught us about that in school. I heard about (Robert) Peary, but I never knew there was a guy with him that looked like me… I had to find my own motivation, I had to find my own inspiration”61:30 - Motivational talks to New York schools: “If I can do it, you can do it”66:45 - Greatest mountain memory… 10 March 1992, losing the trail, a backpack, a lot of body heat, and nearly everything in the mountains of south-west Tasmania (“the hardest trip I ever did, by the way”). 71:15 - All the time, money, freedom… what would you do? Five places: the top of Everest, the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the North Pole, the South Pole, the moon.

This one is a little different. I'll be reading for you the first chapter of "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole" by Matthew A. Henson, published in 1909. Matthew Alexander Henson was an African American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic. On the expedition that reached the geographic North Pole on April 6, 1909, Henson was reported to be the first person to reach the pole. Some question the veracity of this claim, but there's no doubt that Henson was an adventurer who risked life and limb to explore wild and perilous landscapes.  Visit the show notes to learn more about Matthew Henson. And don't forget to subscribe to Rebloom Room podcast!

People used to say "If you believe that, I have some swampland in Florida to sell you," but they really should have said, "I have some lovely acres in the Republic of Poyais you can buy, but you have to act now!"  Presenting one of my favorite con artists ever, the man who declared himself prince of a South American country that didn't exist, Gregor MacGregor (yes, that's really his name). Links to all the research resources are on the website. Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Kevin MacLeod,  Want to start a podcast or need a better podcast host?  Get up to TWO months hosting for free from Libsyn with coupon code "moxie."   Remember back in episode 155, Hate to Burst your Bubble, we talked about, among other things, the Florida real estate boom and bust of the 1920s?  It's where we get the phrase, “if you believe that, I have some real estate in Florida to sell you.”  100 years before that, we could have been saying, “I have some acreage in Poyais to sell you.”  Never been to Poyais?  Trust me, it's amazing.  The weather is always perfect, sunny and warm.  Located along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras, the soil of Poyais is so fertile, you can get three harvests of corn a year.  The trees are heavy with fruit and the forests teem with entrees in the form of game animals.  If you look into the rivers, you'll not only see water cleaner and more pure than you've ever seen in your life and more fish than you could hope to catch, but in the river bed, the sparkle of gold fills your eyes, not from flecks and dust, but nuggets as big as walnuts, just laying there, waiting for you to scoop them up.  The only thing missing is settlers to develop and leverage its resources to the fullest.  Wanna get your share?  Better hurry; hundreds of people are investing all their savings in a piece of the perfect Poyais.  All you have to do is [] to the Cazique or prince.  Who is the prince of this equatorial new world paradise?  A Scotsman named Gregor MacGregor.     MacGregor was born in 1786.  His father, who died when Gregor was 4, was a captain sailing with the East India Company, so adventuring on a quest for riches might well have been in his blood.  A clever chap from the get-go, Gregor enrolled in the University of Edinburgh at age 15, though he never finished his degree.  No shade thrown there, I'm a 3-time community college drop-out and look how I turned out!  (pause, sigh)  At age 17, he took after his grandfather and joined the British Army, where he quickly rose up the ranks to lieutenant, captain, and major, largely by buying the next rank up, but that's pretty much how it was done back then.  Two years after enlisting, MacGregor married a Royal Navy Admiral's daughter, and a mere five years after that, probably because he'd married into money, he retired from the army.  The young couple moved to London, where Gregor called himself Sir and claimed to be a baronet, which ranks underneath baron in British noble hierarchy and is apparently a modest enough lie that no one would think to put the effort and time into checking it out.     But ‘easy street' only lasted another year before his wife died.  No more wife meant no more wealthy in-laws, so MacGregor sold his Scottish estate and relocated to Caracas, Venezuela, where he married another wealthy family's daughter.  Never let it be said he's not consistent.  Wife 2 was actually a cousin of Simon Bolivar, of Bolivia fame.  He was able to sell his military prowess to Francisco de Miranda, the Venezuelan revolutionary general.  There was rather a lot of revolution going on in Spanish colonies at the time while Spain was well distracted dealing with a certain actually-of-average-height French emperor.  At least MacGregor wasn't lying about his soldiery, securing a number of victories and becoming a notable figure for the revolutionary set all across LatAm.     In 1820, MacGregor moved to a former British Colony, in Nicaragua, which, true to its name, a swampy and pest-infested area that Europeans had until that point left to the Mosquito Natives.  In 1830, MacGregor traded jewelry and rum for eight million acres of land.  Now that was either an F-ton of rum or the land was utterly worthless.  I'll give you three guesses.  The land was completely useless for farming, kinda of a big deal, being the production of foodstuff and whatnot.     Realizing there was no way he could draw settlers in with the land as it was, MacGregor decided to draw them in with the land as it wasn't.  So he headed back to England, where he was well-known in society circles for his military achievements, leading his men into battle against great odds.  Society not knowing that he'd also abandoned his men.  Twice.  But he rubbed elbows with the muckety-mucks nonetheless, telling them all about his new world paradise, the Republic of Poyais.  And he went so far beyond Baron Munchausenian story-telling.   Gregor made up a whole country and everything that goes along with it.  To hear him tell it, the Republic of Poyais was not an impenetrable, parasite-ridden jungle, but a glorious tableau with a thriving civilization with a parliament, banks, an opera house and cathedral.  The weather was ideal, a perpetual summer that was very appealing to Londoners.  The soil was so rich that farming required almost no labor.  The rivers that wound down the mountains teemed with fish and the surrounding forests were thick with game animals.  In this dubious district, the capital of St Joseph had a massive infrastructure and a population of about 20,000 people.  The economy was robust, if you felt like doing anything other than scooping up all the gold that was just laying around.  MacGregor had pamphlets promoting printed, and they sold in the thousands around the streets of London and Edinburgh.  He started a nationwide campaign to attract investment, taking out big ads in newspapers and even opened sales offices.     The world-building that went into this scam would have made GRRM blush.  Maybe even JRR Tolkien.  Feel free to at me on social media; I love a spirited nerd debate.  He came up with a tricameral Parliament and a commercial banking system.  Like an African dictator, he designed Poyaian military uniforms, several, different ones for different regiments.  He published a 350 page guidebook, under the pen name Thomas Strangeways, with a sliver of real facts about the region, but the Pacman portion of the pie chart all came from his preposterous posterior.  The book was full of detailed sketches and MacGregor had a seemingly endless supply of official-looking documents.  He had offices set up in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh to sell land certificates, which people eagerly bought.  The whole operation looked completely legit; you wouldn't even think to doubt it.  MacGregor didn't just succeed in his con, he was *wildly successful.  Not only did MacGregor raise £200,000 directly – the bond market value over his life ran to £1.3 million, or about £3.6 billion today – but he convinced seven ships' worth of eager settlers to make their way across the Atlantic. It became a popular investment, and many sank their life savings in land deed in Republic of Poyais.  A London Bank underwrote a £2000 pound loan, £23mil or $30mil today, secured with the land sales.     MacGregor was signing up settlers left and right.  Settlers meant development, which meant the value of bonds and land certificates would go up, which would attract more settlers and investors, driving the price up further.  Gee, it's like crime does kinda pay.  Skilled tradesmen were promised free passage and ostensibly, supposedly government contract work.  Don't think it was only the under-educated among the population that bought into this – bankers, doctors, civil servants, you name it.  Whole families signed up and backed their bags.   In September 1822, the first fifty settlers sailed for Poyais and were very confused when the landed.  There was…nothing there.  No port, not even a dock.  I mean, there were trees and snakes and mosquitos, but no city, no road, no nothing.  The settlers believed they were lost, but they couldn't get a ride to the “right” place because that ship had sailed.  Literally, the ship left them immediately.  So they set up camp.  150 more people, including children, shortly joined them.  They searched for civilization as best they could, but the rainy season descended on them, bringing on clouds of mosquitos, whose tiny bags were packed with yellow fever and malaria.  A few settlers who were saved by a passing ship informed the British Colony of Honduras about the situation. The colony organized a rescue mission, but only a third of the population was still alive and rescued. In the meantime, five more ships set for Poyais had to be stopped by the Honduras government.  They were informed that Poyais did not exist. It was Mickey Mouse, mate, spurious, not genuine.  Twisting the knife counter-clockwise, the King revoked the land grant and told them they were now illegal squatters and had swear allegiance or GTFO.  Dozens were too weak to leave.  In a particularly depressing bit of math, of 250 or so who had set sail for Poyais, with all their hopes and dreams pinned to this mythical land, 180 died.      That's not even the crazy bit.  Of those 70 who barely survived their ordeal, many of them did *not blame MacGregor.  Six of the survivors, including one man who lost two children to the ordeal, signed an affidavit insisting that blame lay not with MacGregor but with Hector Hall, a former army officer who was supposed to be in charge of the settlement.  They declared "[W]e believe that Sir Gregor MacGregor has been worse used by Colonel Hall and his other agents than was ever a man before, and that had they have done their duty by Sir Gregor and by us, things would have turned out very differently at Poyais". MacGregor claimed he's been a victim too, defrauded and embezzled from by his own agents and undermined by merchants in British Honduras because the richness of Poyais threatened their profits   Now I love a Scottish accent, but this must have been one charming melon-farmer.  MacGregor didn't know it, but he had actually been using “the six principles of persuasion.”  These comes from a 1984 book by Robert Cialdini, “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion,” which looked at the factors that affect the decisions that people make, especially as pertains to sales, naturally.  At the core of his work is the idea that decision-making is effortful, so individuals use a lot of rules of thumb and decision making shortcuts (heuristics) when deciding what to do, and of course once you know what those things are, you can manipulate them to your advantage.  They are authority (in the sense that they're an authority on the subject), scarcity, reciprocity (i.e. you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours), consistency (I still believe in this idea as much as I always have), social validation (everyone you know is buying one of these), and friendship or liking (picture the smile on a used car salesman).  MacGregor seemed to know these instinctively.   Mcgregor skipped town when the scandal broke, claiming he needed to take his wife to warm, dry Italy for her health, and headed across the channel to France and began the whole thing all over again.  In Paris, he persuaded the Compagnie de la Nouvelle Neustrie, a firm of traders looking to break into the South American market, to seek investors and settlers for Poyais in France.  In a matter of months, he had a new group of settlers and investors ready to go.  Concurrent to all this, he tried to get in good with King Ferdinand VII of Spain, proposing to make Poyais a Spanish protectorate and a base of operations from which Spain could reconquer Guatemala.  Spain, at least, ignored MacGregor.  MacGregor might not have realized that France was more stringent than England in its passport requirements: when the government saw a flood of applications to a country no one had heard of, a commission was set to investigate the matter.  Or maybe he figured he was on a roll and utterly bulletproof.  This time, Mcgregor et al were arrested and tried.  But he was found not guilty on all accounts, mostly because one of his accomplices was hiding in the Netherlands with a ton of incriminating documents.  Once he felt that London had probably forgotten his colossal scam, he headed back…and started another scam.  Smaller this time; I guess he's learning.  But the bonds didn't sell well this time, and what's worse -for everyone- other fraudsters started pulling their own fake paradise scams following his model.  He retired to Edinburgh, then to Venezuela after the death of his wife, where he was granted citizenship and a pension as a retired general.  He never faced any consequences for his actions and when he died in 1845, Gregor MacGregor was buried with full military honors.  So the moral of the story is … crime does pay?  That's a terrible lesson.     Crocker Land   In 1907, Robert Peary was the most famous, and most experienced Arctic explorer in the world, but he had a problem—he hadn't yet managed to become the first to visit the most arctic of arctic places, the North Pole, and his cash reserves were becoming nonexistent. The previous year, he had almost made it—supposedly getting within 175 miles or 280 kilometers—but was turned around by a combination of storms and depleting supplies, but Robert Peary was sure he could get there if he just had another try. He possessed the kind of confidence that only a man with a Lorax level mustache can have. All he needed to make another journey was money. However, the arctic adventure capital market was a bit reluctant to give him more after the previous failures, so, Peary hatched a plan. The key to that plan was a wealthy San Francisco financier named George Crocker, who had previously donated $50,000 to Peary's failed 1906 voyage. This was, of course, a time when 50k bought you more than two buckets of movie theatre popcorn and a calculus textbook. Peary wanted Crocker to help fund his new voyage but, considering the previous trip he financed achieved diddly squat, this could be tough. But what if, and hear me out, the previous voyage wasn't a colossal failure. Peary thought of a way to not only convince Crocker that the previous voyage hadn't been a failure, but also to butter him up a little bit by doing the one thing that rich people love more than anything else—naming things after them. And so, Peary revealed that on his 1906 voyage, though he hadn't made it to the North Pole, he had seen, from a distance, an enormous, previously undiscovered land mass. He wrote that he spotted, “faint white summits,” 130 miles northwest of Cape Thomas Hubbard, and that once he got closer, he could make out, “the snow-clad summits of the distant land in the northwest, above the ice horizon.” In honor of George Crocker, the San Francisco financier, Peary named this beautiful, snow-peaked land mass, “Crocker Land.” But then Robert Peary had two problems. The first problem? George Crocker had already given most of his money to boring causes like rebuilding San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906, and so as flattered as he may have been, there wasn't money left for funding Peary's arctic antics. The second problem? The island was totally, 100%, made up. Now normally, this might not be such a big deal. Guy makes up an imaginary island, who cares? Captain James Cook did so three centuries ago and still nobody's called him out, but this fake island ended up mattering a lot. You see, eventually, Robert Peary did manage to secure funding for another voyage, mostly from the National Geographic Society. On April 6, 1909, he finally made it to the North Pole, or at least, he said he did. He had a picture, but this could be any old pile of snow. He returned home proudly proclaiming that he was the first man ever to reach the North Pole, to which a guy named Frederick Cook, another Arctic explorer, replied, “um…I was there, like, a year ago,” but, Cook said that he'd sailed through where this giant land mass called Crocker's Land was supposedly located. If I know anything about boats, it's that they don't work well on land and, since Cook hadn't found a thing except for cold water and walrus farts, someone's lying here. But, because of this, the existence of Crocker Land became crucially important as it would prove who had really gone to the North Pole first. If it did exist, then Frederick Cook must be lying about going to the North Pole. If it didn't exist, Frederick Cook did go to the North Pole, and Robert Peary was the liar. Of course, at that time you couldn't just fire up your handy household satellite to check and so, to settle it, a man named Donald McMillian decided to go on another expedition to find the land. Not only would this prove who was telling the truth, but it would possibly give McMillan the opportunity to be the first to step onto what was considered, “the last great unknown place in the world.” That voyage was, incredibly, a failure. In addition to their ship getting stuck in the ice for three years before they could return home, the only bright spot came when a crew member saw what looked to be the island—a beautiful, snowy-peaked landmass—but it turned out to be a mirage. In light of that fact, some have suggested that Peary didn't lie about the island, but was actually just seeing a mirage, but unfortunately for Peary's reputation, it looks like that's letting him off too easy. Historians looked at Peary's original notes and logs for the date that Crocker's Land was supposedly discovered, and they found that he doesn't mention anything about it. All he says happened that day was that he climbed up some rocks, and then climbed down the rocks. Plus, the early drafts of his book even didn't include anything about it, but then three paragraphs about Crocker Land mysteriously showed up just before the book was published—just when Peary needed to get more money. In other words, Crocker Land was a load of crock. One of Peary's major issues, aside from inventing an island, was that, when he supposedly went to this north pole, his crew did not include a single navigator who could make their own independent observations as to whether or not they were truly at the pole, or just some pile of ice, and so people didn't believe him. In the archives of the American Geographical Society in Milwaukee lies a century-old map with a peculiar secret. Just north of Greenland, the map shows a small, hook-shaped island labeled “Crocker Land” with the words “Seen By Peary, 1906” printed just below.   The Peary in question is Robert Peary, one of the most famous polar explorers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the man who claimed to have been the first to step foot on the North Pole. But what makes this map remarkable is that Crocker Land was all but a phantom. It wasn't “seen by Peary”—as later expeditions would prove, the explorer had invented it out of the thin Arctic air.   By 1906, Peary was the hardened veteran of five expeditions to the Arctic Circle. Desperate to be the first to the North Pole, he left New York in the summer of 1905 in a state-of-the-art ice-breaking vessel, the Roosevelt—named in honor of one of the principal backers of the expedition, President Theodore Roosevelt. The mission to set foot on the top of the world ended in failure, however: Peary said he sledged to within 175 miles of the pole (a claim others would later question), but was forced to turn back by storms and dwindling supplies.   Peary immediately began planning another attempt, but found himself short of cash. He apparently tried to coax funds from one of his previous backers, San Francisco financier George Crocker—who had donated $50,000 to the 1905-'06 mission—by naming a previously undiscovered landmass after him. In his 1907 book Nearest the Pole, Peary claimed that during his 1906 mission he'd spotted “the faint white summits” of previously undiscovered land 130 miles northwest of Cape Thomas Hubbard, one of the most northerly parts of Canada. Peary named this newfound island “Crocker Land” in his benefactor's honor, hoping to secure another $50,000 for the next expedition.   His efforts were for naught: Crocker diverted much of his resources to helping San Francisco rebuild after the 1906 earthquake, with little apparently free for funding Arctic exploration. But Peary did make another attempt at the North Pole after securing backing from the National Geographic Society, and on April 6, 1909, he stood on the roof of the planet—at least by his own account. “The Pole at last!!!" the explorer wrote in his journal. "The prize of 3 centuries, my dream and ambition for 23 years. Mine at last."   Peary wouldn't celebrate his achievement for long, though: When the explorer returned home, he discovered that Frederick Cook—who had served under Peary on his 1891 North Greenland expedition—was claiming he'd been the first to reach the pole a full year earlier. For a time, a debate over the two men's claims raged—and Crocker Land became part of the fight. Cook claimed that on his way to the North Pole he'd traveled to the area where the island was supposed to be, but had seen nothing there. Crocker Land, he said, didn't exist.   Peary's supporters began to counter-attack, and one of his assistants on the 1909 trip, Donald MacMillan, announced that he would lead an expedition to prove the existence of Crocker Land, vindicating Peary and forever ruining the reputation of Cook.   There was also, of course, the glory of being the first to set foot on the previously unexplored island. Historian David Welky, author of A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier, recently explained to National Geographic that with both poles conquered, Crocker Land was “the last great unknown place in the world.” American Geographical Society Library. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. After receiving backing from the American Museum of Natural History, the University of Illinois, and the American Geographical Society, the MacMillan expedition departed from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in July 1913. MacMillan and his team took provisions, dogs, a cook, “a moving picture machine,” and wireless equipment, with the grand plan of making a radio broadcast live to the United States from the island.   But almost immediately, the expedition was met with misfortune: MacMillan's ship, the Diana, was wrecked on the voyage to Greenland by her allegedly drunken captain, so MacMillan transferred to another ship, the Erik, to continue his journey. By early 1914, with the seas frozen, MacMillan set out to attempt a 1200-mile long sled journey from Etah, Greenland, through one of the most inhospitable and harshest landscapes on Earth, in search of Peary's phantom island.   Though initially inspired by their mission to find Crocker Land, MacMillan's team grew disheartened as they sledged through the Arctic landscape without finding it. “You can imagine how earnestly we scanned every foot of that horizon—not a thing in sight,” MacMillan wrote in his 1918 book, Four Years In The White North.   But a discovery one April day by Fitzhugh Green, a 25-year-old ensign in the US Navy, gave them hope. As MacMillan later recounted, Green was “no sooner out of the igloo than he came running back, calling in through the door, ‘We have it!' Following Green, we ran to the top of the highest mound. There could be no doubt about it. Great heavens! What a land! Hills, valleys, snow-capped peaks extending through at least one hundred and twenty degrees of the horizon.”   But visions of the fame brought by being the first to step foot on Crocker Land quickly evaporated. “I turned to Pee-a-wah-to,” wrote MacMillan of his Inuit guide (also referred to by some explorers as Piugaattog). “After critically examining the supposed landfall for a few minutes, he astounded me by replying that he thought it was a ‘poo-jok' (mist).”   Indeed, MacMillan recorded that “the landscape gradually changed its appearance and varied in extent with the swinging around of the Sun; finally at night it disappeared altogether.” For five more days, the explorers pressed on, until it became clear that what Green had seen was a mirage, a polar fata morgana. Named for the sorceress Morgana le Fay in the legends of King Arthur, these powerful illusions are produced when light bends as it passes through the freezing air, leading to mysterious images of apparent mountains, islands, and sometimes even floating ships.   Fata morganas are a common occurrence in polar regions, but would a man like Peary have been fooled? “As we drank our hot tea and gnawed the pemmican, we did a good deal of thinking,” MacMillan wrote. “Could Peary with all his experience have been mistaken? Was this mirage which had deceived us the very thing which had deceived him eight years before? If he did see Crocker Land, then it was considerably more than 120 miles away, for we were now at least 100 miles from shore, with nothing in sight.”   MacMillan's mission was forced to accept the unthinkable and turn back. “My dreams of the last four years were merely dreams; my hopes had ended in bitter disappointment,” MacMillan wrote. But the despair at realizing that Crocker Land didn't exist was merely the beginning of the ordeal.   MacMillan sent Fitzhugh Green and the Inuit guide Piugaattog west to explore a possible route back to their base camp in Etah. The two became trapped in the ice, and one of their dog teams died. Fighting over the remaining dogs, Green—with alarming lack of remorse—explained in his diary what happened next: “I shot once in the air ... I then killed [Piugaattog] with a shot through the shoulder and another through the head.” Green returned to the main party and confessed to MacMillan. Rather than reveal the murder, the expedition leader told the Inuit members of the mission that Piugaattog had perished in the blizzard.   Several members of the MacMillan mission would remain trapped in the ice for another three years, victims of the Arctic weather. Two attempts by the American Museum of Natural History to rescue them met with failure, and it wasn't until 1917 that MacMillan and his party were finally saved by the steamer Neptune, captained by seasoned Arctic sailor Robert Bartlett.   While stranded in the ice, the men put their time to good use; they studied glaciers, astronomy, the tides, Inuit culture, and anything else that attracted their curiosity. They eventually returned with over 5000 photographs, thousands of specimens, and some of the earliest film taken of the Arctic (much of which can be seen today in the repositories of the American Geographical Society at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee).   It's unclear whether MacMillan ever confronted Peary about Crocker Land—about what exactly the explorer had seen in 1906, and perhaps what his motives were. When MacMillan's news about not having found Crocker Land reached the United States, Peary defended himself to the press by noting how difficult spotting land in the Arctic could be, telling reporters, “Seen from a distance ... an iceberg with earth and stones may be taken for a rock, a cliff-walled valley filled with fog for a fjord, and the dense low clouds above a patch of open water for land.” (He maintained, however, that "physical indications and theory" still pointed to land somewhere in the area.) Yet later researchers have noted that Peary's notes from his 1905-'06 expedition don't mention Crocker Land at all. As Welky told National Geographic, “He talks about a hunting trip that day, climbing the hills to get this view, but says absolutely nothing about seeing Crocker Land. Several crewmembers also kept diaries, and according to those he never mentioned anything about seeing a new continent.”   There's no mention of Crocker Land in early drafts of Nearest the Pole, either—it's only mentioned in the final manuscript. That suggests Peary had a deliberate reason for the the inclusion of the island.   Crocker, meanwhile, wouldn't live to see if he was immortalized by this mysterious new land mass: He died in December 1909 of stomach cancer, a year after Peary had set out in the Roosevelt again in search of the Pole, and before MacMillan's expedition.   Any remnants of the legend of Crocker Land were put to bed in 1938, when Isaac Schlossbach flew over where the mysterious island was supposed to be, looked down from his cockpit, and saw nothing. Bradley Land was the name Frederick Cook gave to a mass of land which he claimed to have seen between (84°20′N 102°0′W) and (85°11′N 102°0′W) during a 1909 expedition. He described it as two masses of land with a break, a strait, or an indentation between.[1] The land was named for John R. Bradley, who had sponsored Cook's expedition.   Cook published two photographs of the land and described it thus: "The lower coast resembled Heiberg Island, with mountains and high valleys. The upper coast I estimated as being about one thousand feet high, flat, and covered with a thin sheet ice."[2]   It is now known there is no land at that location and Cook's observations were based on either a misidentification of sea ice or an outright fabrication. Cook's Inuit companions reported that the photographs were actually taken near the coast of Axel Heiberg Island.[   Cook described two islands lying at about 85 degrees North, which he named Bradley Land.  These islands, like Peary's “Crocker Land,” do not exist, yet Cook's partisans have tried to resuscitate Cook's credibility by linking “Bradley Land” to a discovery made in the Arctic only since Dr. Cook's death.      After World War II, aerial reconnaissance revealed a number of large tabular bergs drifting slowly clockwise in the arctic basin north of Ellesmere Island. Several arctic researchers and scientists have suggested these so-called ice islands—breakaway pieces of its ancient ice shelf—are probably what Cook mistook for “Bradley Land,” and Cook's advocates have repeated these statements to support the doctor's claim.       Cook gave this description of “Bradley Land”: “The lower coast resembled Heiberg Island, with mountains and high valleys. The upper coast I estimated as being about one thousand feet high, flat, and covered with a thin sheet ice.”      Ice islands are no more than 100 to 200 feet thick, total. They are nearly flat with only rolling undulations and rise only about 25 feet above sea level. Cook's “Bradley Land” therefore does not remotely resemble an ice island, or even an ice island magnified by mirage. And Cook published two pictures of the high, mountainous land he called “Bradley Land.”        Cook's Inuit companions are reported to have said these pictures were of two small islands off the northwest coast of Axel Heiberg Island; others believe they are of the coast of Heiberg Island itself, though the pictures have never been duplicated.      Ren Bay  has been suggested as the site.  Ellesmere trekker Jerry Kobalenko reports he could not match the picture exactly to that site, but Cook might have taken it at a time when fog obscured prominent landmarks, as he did in Alaska, making it impossible to duplicate now.  In each picture the photographer is standing on a point above the flat ice.  Kobalenko's was taken off a ten-foot hillock.   Sources: https://www.jetsetter.com/magazine/islands-to-visit-before-they-disappear/ Brigadoon https://www.history.com/news/the-con-man-who-invented-his-own-country https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sandy-island-doesnt-exist_n_2184535 https://interestingengineering.com/10-islands-on-maps-that-never-actually-existed https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8350278/mysterious-island-that-didnt-exist-four-years-ago-is-now-teeming-with-life-sea-volcano/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160127-the-conman-who-pulled-off-historys-most-audaciou s-scam https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/collections/notable-collections/profiles/crocker-land.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/crocker-land-peary-arctic-continent https://research.bowdoin.edu/crocker-land-expedition/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_KQOeh-Co http://humbug.polarhist.com/bland.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Island,_New_Caledonia https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/gregor-macgregor-prince-poyais   There are Islands that have disappeared and not in the global warming, vanishing coastline type of way. These Islands are called Phantom Islands. To be considered a Phantom Island, a piece of land must have been agreed to exist at one point before eventually being undiscovered or corrected. Basically, academics and cartographers thought an island was real and then eventually found out it wasn't. For example, Atlantis would not be considered a Phantom Island because it was always considered a legend. But perhaps the best example of a Phantom Island is Burmeja. Bermeja first appeared on maps in the year 1539, and for nearly 400 years, it was accepted as a real island located in the Gulf of Mexico. But in the 2000s, the United States and Mexico were in a dispute over an oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. Basically, Burmeja marked the outermost limit of Mexico's economic territory. The oil field would have been within that border marked by Burmeja, thus making it Mexico's property. But when the Mexican government set a team to verify the island's position, it was gone. The team had the exact coordinates for the island, and Bermeja had appeared on maps for 400 years, but it just wasn't there. The team searched all over the Gulf of Mexico and concluded that Bermeja simply no longer existed. There are a few theories about how Bermer disappeared. One is that it vanished into the ocean as a result of natural geographic shifts. This has happened elsewhere in the world, so it's entirely plausible. There's also a theory that Birmingham was intentionally destroyed by the United States so they could gain access to the oil field. It's a bold strategy, and you would think someone would have noticed an entire island being blown up. But America has done worse things in the name of oil. Some people say early Mexican officials may have added it to the map in an effort to just expand their borders. This, again, would be a pretty bold strategy, but perhaps an effective one in the 15th century. The most likely explanation is that Burmeja never existed. It was a mistake by some cartographer in the 1500s, and everyone just went with it. Early cartographers were also known to add fake Islands to their maps to prevent plagiarism. These fake Islands would tip them off if their map was ever copied. But Burmeja has appeared in various ships, logs, and inventories, some of which were official documents from the Mexican government. Ultimately, Burmette was never found, and no one really knows why. But Bermuda has not been the only Phantom Island. The Baja Peninsula was believed to be the island of California for years before it was corrected. A fictitious place called Sandy Island appeared on maps for over a century near Australia. It was even on Google maps. Today, scientists think early explorers just saw a large piece of pumice stone floating in the ocean. Arctic Explorer Robert E. Pierre made up the Island Crocker land in an effort to scam some money from one of his investors. There have been dozens more of these Phantom Islands over the years with each having been undiscovered for different reasons. Today, though, thanks to satellite imagery, Phantom Islands are probably a thing of the past you. Con artists have long recognised that persuasion must appeal to two very particular aspects of human motivation – the drive that will get people to do something, and the inertia that prevents them from wanting to do it. In 2003, two social psychologists, Eric Knowles at the University of Arkansas and Jay Linn at Widener University, formalised this idea by naming two types of persuasive tactics. The first, alpha, was far more frequent: increasing the appeal of something. The second, omega, decreased the resistance surrounding something. In the one, you do what you can to make your proposition, whatever it may be, more attractive. You rev up the backstory – why this is such a wonderful opportunity, why you are the perfect person to do it, how much everyone will gain, and the like. In the other, you make a request or offer seem so easy as to be a no-brainer – why wouldn't I do this? What do I have to lose? Psychologists call it the ‘approach-avoidance' model of persuasion They called the juxtaposition the approach-avoidance model of persuasion: you can convince me of something by making me want to approach it and decreasing any reasons I might have to avoid it. According to Columbia University psychologist Tory Higgins, people are usually more likely to be swayed by one or other of the two motivational lines: some people are promotion-focused (they think of possible positive gains), and some, prevention-focused (they focus on losses and avoiding mistakes). An approach that unites the alpha with the omega appeals to both mindsets, however, giving it universal appeal – and it is easy to see how MacGregor's proposition offered this potent combination.  

An unlucky filmmaker's Viking voyage finds disaster at sea, while the luck of the Irish brings better news for a tennis star.#Hollywoodfilmdisaster, #VarickFrissell, #RobertPeary, #FrederickCook, #FrankShields, #ExplorersClub, #PrincePhilip, #JeffBezos, #articexplorationYoung filmmaker Varick Frissell ventures to the frozen Newfoundland and shoot more scenes of a seal hunt for his film White Thunder. Only tragedy strikes. Meanwhile, tennis sensation and non-heir Frank Shields learns he will represent the United States at Davis Cup freeing him from the drudgery of his job as a bank loan officer.--Date: March 1931Location: Newfoundland, Canada; Palm Beach, FL; Greenwich, CTEvent: Viking ship explosionCharacters: Frank Shields, James Donahue, Varick Frissell, Captain Abraham Kean, Miss O BartlettHistorical mentions: Captain Bartlett, Robert Peary, Frederick Cook, Prince Philip, Jeff Bezos , astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria--Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Publish Date: March 17, 2022Length: 23:21Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music: The Eyes Of The World by Louis Levy, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 2 Music: A Reckless Night On Board An Ocean by Sydney Lipton, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sSection 3 Music: Got To Dance My Way To Heaven by Henry Hall, Albums The Great British Dance Bands & Tea Dance 2End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

The biggest names in Hollywood and Broadway recorded for AFRS during the war years, The American Forces Network can trace its origins back to May 26, 1942, when the War Department established the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS). The U.S. Army began broadcasting from London during World War II, using equipment and studio facilities borrowed from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The first transmission to U.S. troops began at 5:45 p.m. on July 4, 1943, and included less than five hours of recorded shows, a BBC news and sports broadcast. That day, Corporal Syl Binkin became the first U.S. Military broadcasters heard over the air. The signal was sent from London via telephone lines to five regional transmitters to reach U.S. troops in the United Kingdom as they prepared for the inevitable invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. Fearing competition for civilian audiences the BBC initially tried to impose restrictions on AFN broadcasts within Britain (transmissions were only allowed from American Bases outside London and were limited to 50 watts of transmission power) and a minimum quota of British produced programming had to be carried. Nevertheless AFN programmes were widely enjoyed by the British civilian listeners who could receive them and once AFN operations transferred to continental Europe (shortly after D-Day) AFN were able to broadcast with little restriction with programmes available to civilian audiences across most of Europe (including Britain) after dark. As D-Day approached, the network joined with the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to develop programs especially for the Allied Expeditionary Forces. Mobile stations, complete with personnel, broadcasting equipment, and a record library were deployed to broadcast music and news to troops in the field. The mobile stations reported on front line activities and fed the news reports back to studio locations in London. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Entertainment Radio Stations Live 24/7 Sherlock Holmes/CBS Radio Mystery Theater https://live365.com/station/Sherlock-Holmes-Classic-Radio--a91441 https://live365.com/station/CBS-Radio-Mystery-Theater-a57491 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The biggest names in Hollywood and Broadway recorded for AFRS during the war years, The American Forces Network can trace its origins back to May 26, 1942, when the War Department established the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS). The U.S. Army began broadcasting from London during World War II, using equipment and studio facilities borrowed from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The first transmission to U.S. troops began at 5:45 p.m. on July 4, 1943, and included less than five hours of recorded shows, a BBC news and sports broadcast. That day, Corporal Syl Binkin became the first U.S. Military broadcasters heard over the air. The signal was sent from London via telephone lines to five regional transmitters to reach U.S. troops in the United Kingdom as they prepared for the inevitable invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. Fearing competition for civilian audiences the BBC initially tried to impose restrictions on AFN broadcasts within Britain (transmissions were only allowed from American Bases outside London and were limited to 50 watts of transmission power) and a minimum quota of British produced programming had to be carried. Nevertheless AFN programmes were widely enjoyed by the British civilian listeners who could receive them and once AFN operations transferred to continental Europe (shortly after D-Day) AFN were able to broadcast with little restriction with programmes available to civilian audiences across most of Europe (including Britain) after dark. As D-Day approached, the network joined with the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to develop programs especially for the Allied Expeditionary Forces. Mobile stations, complete with personnel, broadcasting equipment, and a record library were deployed to broadcast music and news to troops in the field. The mobile stations reported on front line activities and fed the news reports back to studio locations in London.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Entertainment Radio Stations Live 24/7 Sherlock Holmes/CBS Radio Mystery Theaterhttps://live365.com/station/Sherlock-Holmes-Classic-Radio--a91441https://live365.com/station/CBS-Radio-Mystery-Theater-a57491----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Matthew Henson was just 12 years old when he walked from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, and into a position as a cabin boy on a merchant ship. But his greatest trek would come three decades later and take him to the very top of the world. Some scholars even believe he was the first man to reach the North Pole.

The fascinating conclusion to the story of the race to the North Pole between Robert Peary and Matthew Henson, and their chief rival Dr. Fredrick Cook.This week's Ghost of Arlington are: Navy Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary (Section 8, Lot 15)Josephine Peary (Section 8, Lot 15)Matthew Henson (Section 8, Lot 15)Lucy Henson (Section 8, Lot 15)Marie Ahnighito Peary Stafford (Section 8, Grave 5190-6)Army Captain Edward StaffordHere are the websites with more information about next week's centennial anniversary of the dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier:1. For a free reservation to personally walk the Plaza of the Unknowns and lay flowers at the tomb:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier-centennial-commemoration-public-flower-ceremony-tickets-1713838828072. A full list of virtual programs put on by Arlington for the tombs centennial: https://arlingtoncemetery.mil/Tomb100/Centennial-Events Also, a very special thanks to Mountain Up Cap Company for its continued help to spread the word about the podcast on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/MountainUpCapCompany Climb to Glory!For more information about the podcast visit: ·       The GoA website: https://www.ghostsofarlingtonpodcast.com    ·       Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ghostsofarlingtonpodcast·       Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArlingtonGhosts·       Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostsofarlington/

I always remember being taught in school that the first person to reach the geographical North Pole was US Rear Admiral Robert Peary, but as with most events in world history, the truth isn't as cut and dry as that.  This is part one of my attempt to set that record straight.Here are the websites with more information about next week's centennial anniversary of the dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier:1. For a free reservation to personally walk the Plaza of the Unknowns and lay flowers at the tomb:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier-centennial-commemoration-public-flower-ceremony-tickets-1713838828072. A full list of virtual programs put on by Arlington for the tombs centennial: https://arlingtoncemetery.mil/Tomb100/Centennial-EventsAlso, a very special thanks to Mountain Up Cap Company for its continued help to spread the word about the podcast on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/MountainUpCapCompany Climb to Glory!For more information about the podcast visit: ·       The GoA website: https://www.ghostsofarlingtonpodcast.com    ·       Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ghostsofarlingtonpodcast·       Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArlingtonGhosts·       Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostsofarlington/

J.R. Harris has been backpacking long distances for more than 50 years in some of the most remote wilderness areas in the world, unsupported and mostly alone. He is on the Board of Directors for the 116-year-old Explorers Club, and is the Chairman for the Club's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. He is also a keynote speaker. J.R. believes diversity, equity, and inclusion will increase the number of people who will spend time in nature and therefore appreciate and protect our public lands and open spaces. His objective is to share his experiences to hopefully motivate others to pursue a healthy outdoors lifestyle. He has written numerous articles about his experiences in the outdoors, as well as the book, Way Out There: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker. Topics covered in this episode: James Pierson Beckwourth (1798 or 1800 – 1866 or 1867). He was an American fur trapper, explorer, mountain man, innkeeper, author, storyteller, scout, guide, and more. He's known for being one of the few African American mountain men, on the American Western Frontier. Matthew Alexander Henson (1866 – 1955) was an American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. He is best known for his participation in the 1908 –1909 expedition that reached the geographic North Pole on April 6, 1909. Henson was the first of their party to reach the pole. To learn more about J.R. Harris and his work, head over to their www.jrinthewilderness.com & Instagram @jrinthewilderness This episode is supported by LEKI, makers of the world's best poles since 1948.  www.Leki.com & Instagram @lekiusa We hope you enjoyed this episode. Come check us out at www.UnlikelyStoriesPodcast.com & Instagram @UnlikelyStoriesPodcast

On their many attempts to reach the North Pole, Robert Peary and Matthew Henson spent a lot of time in northwest Greenland. So much time that they, like many explorers before them, formed intimate relationships with Inughuit women. Their sons from those unions, Kali Peary and Anaukaq Henson, grew up in their Arctic communities never knowing their fathers. But in the 1980s, an ambitious Harvard neuroscientist brought Kali and Anaukaq to the United States to meet their American relatives. It was a joyous, unforgettable experience—but the family reunion also brought up some painful memories and uncomfortable questions.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

From 1891-1909, Matthew Henson dedicated his life to exploring the Arctic. Originally, Robert Peary hired Henson as a servant, but in 1908, when it was time for Peary's third and final attempt to reach the North Pole, it was Henson who was Peary's most trusted partner. As a Black American at the turn of the century, he faced constant racism, but in the Arctic, his character and skills couldn't be ignored. He was the best person to lead the final push to the North Pole, but would he be the first to reach it?   https://adventurenerds.com/podcast/matthew-henson-towards-the-north-pole/   Visit us at Adventure Nerds to learn more about us and find a list of references and a map of Henson's route towards the North Pole. Remember to sign up for our newsletter and follow us for more exciting stories.   Follow Adventure Nerds: Instagram YouTube Spotify   Be curious and choose adventure.   Thanks for listening!

Go to http://candidco.com/SCB and use code SCB to save $75 on your starter kit! Today J dives into the world of Avatar the Last Airbender to discuss the CRAZY and heartbreaking history behind Sokka’s SPACE SWORD, the meteorite that forged it Robert Peary’s real life race to the North Pole and what it cost the Inughuit people. Grizzly Eagle Shark Shirt :: https://store.dftba.com/collections/super-carlin-brothers/products/grizzly-eagle-shark-shirt Sources: Cape York Meteorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_York_meteorite Minik and the Metero: https://narratively.com/minik-and-the-meteor/ Caught in the Middle: The Tragic Life of Minik Wallace: https://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/exhibits/2020/caught-in-the-middle-the-tragic-life-of-minik-wallace.html The Cape York Meteorite Making an Impact on Greenland: https://jsis.washington.edu/news/the-cape-york-meteorite-making-an-impact-on-greenland/ The Prize of the Pole: https://vimeo.com/127523606 THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE INNAANGANEQ/ CAPE YORK METEORITE: https://now.ku.dk/documents/Meteorit2014FinalReportLight.pdf #SuperCarlinBrothers #atla #AvatarTheLastAirbender Edited by :: Riley Murtagh

European explorers often thought of the Arctic as an empty wasteland, and the Indigenous people who lived there as childlike. But as one historian put it, “the real children in the Arctic would be the white explorers.” From Martin Frobisher’s expeditions in the 16th century right up until Robert Peary’s time, Inuit people helped explorers in countless ways—from providing food, to teaching valuable skills, to saving their lives. In this episode, we’ll learn how Indigenous people viewed the Europeans and Americans in their lands, why they chose to assist in their expeditions, and how explorers often exploited them in their quests for the North Pole. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The North Pole has attracted explorers for centuries. They faced an unbelievably harsh and dangerous climate, lost fingers and toes to frostbite, or even cut off their own body parts to survive. Many adventurers risked everything to claim it—but why? In our first episode, we’ll meet the generations of explorers who searched for passages to Asia, like Martin Frobisher, William Barents, and Henry Hudson. And we’ll examine how, by the mid-19th century, those quests had turned into an all-out race to the North Pole led by Robert Peary and Matthew Henson. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Voici l'histoire de Dr. Frederik Cook et Robert Peary, deux explorateurs affirmant avoir accompli la même prouesse : être le premier homme a avoir atteint le Pôle Nord. Problème : il ne peut y avoir qu'un seul premier homme. Se peut-il qu'un des deux explorateurs soit en train de mentir ? Retrouvez Crapules sur Twitter :  https://twitter.com/CrapulesStudio  Musiques de fond : "Return of the Obra Dinn", par Lucas Pope.  Sources : Exploration of his diary puts Peary on thin ice, Chicago Tribune, 1989 North Pole Controversy – Who WAS the first person to reach it?, Laura Pattara, 2018 Peary vs. Cook, The Washington Post, 1999

Tonight let's return to a relaxing travelogue and continue with Robert Peary's detailed account of the search for the North Pole. Trials, triumphs and...a plan to pipe soup across the Arctic? This book has it all! Keep this podcast ad-free and relaxed! Everyone contributing on Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee in September will be entered in this month's drawing for a personalized episode of your very own. You pick the book! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW Read "The North Pole" at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18975 Music: “Dream Colours” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY-NC  http://leerosevere.bandcamp.com If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, boringbookspod.com.

On this day in 1866, Matthew Alexander Henson, the first person to reach the geographic North Pole, was born in Maryland in the United States. Learn about his friendship with Arctic explorer, Robert Peary, and how ego and prejudice ruined their intimate friendship. Today is August 8, 2020. This is the Librarian's Almanac. Feel free to check out more from the Librarian's Almanac on their website: http://www.librariansalmanac.com/ I'd also love to hear from you directly. Feel free to send me an email at librarians.almanac@gmail.com

This is an autobiographical tale from Matthew Alexander Henson, an American explorer, who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages into the Arctic and with whom he spent a total of 18 years on various expeditions. In 1937, Henson was the first African-American to be made a life member of the Explorers Club, a professional society that promotes scientific exploration and field study. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/sweetdreams_radio)

Jeopardy! recaps from the week of June 15th, 2020. We look back at some significant wins by ToC contestants, and Rob Worman joins us to discuss his episode and get in on Emily's deep dive into Matthew Henson and Robert Peary.Find us on Facebook (Potent Podables) and Twitter (@potentpodables1). Email us at potentpodablescast@gmail.com. We're on Patreon, but if you have to choose where your money goes, please find a worthy cause in your community:www.communityjusticeexchange.orgwww.blacklivesmatter.com 

On September 7th, 1909, The New York Times announced that Robert Peary was the first person to ever reach The North Pole. But a week earlier, The New York Herald had said the same thing about Frederick Cook. Only one of them could be right, but which one? And how could you tell for certain? Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant and entering discount code "theconstant".Visit our Patreon here.Music by:Blue Dot SessionsLee RosevereKevin MacLeodLakey InspiredJazz Duets

Alaska: the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the town of Cicely. Joel’s four-year mission: to explore strange, new people. To seek out new perspectives and new lifestyles. To boldly go where Joel has never gone before! Kon'nichiwa, Yōkoso, and Ohayō! Northern OverExposure is back this week with co-hosts Lee and Charles and they’re here to chatter about the United States Postal Service auctions, Mt. Everest, Robert Peary and much more! This episode is part 1 of 2. The guest analysis will be featured in part 2. Theme music by Matt Jackson Podcast Artwork by Lazerkitties (instagram.com/lazerkitties) Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Stitcher, Spotify, and SoundCloud. write in: northernoverexposurepodcast@gmail.com

Who was Matthew Henson and how did his fur suit come to live in the Berkshire Museum? Journey back to 1908 and discover the story of Matthew Henson and Robert Peary's Arctic expedition.

Welcome back. We hope you're staying healthy.This week the Nerds invited Dev-i-Boy on again. He'll be joining us for the next while.First up is a discussion about Indiana Jones 5. Can Indy swing himself back into relevance for a new generation? Not if COVID-19 has anything to say about it. Indiana Jones 5 has been pushed back again due to the pandemic. The Nerds are hoping Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf doesn't make another appearance as Indy's son, but we'd be ok with him appearing as a cannibal tribesman. This of course leads into a discussion on Disney's other properties, including the notorious Pirates of the Caribbean and Jungle Cruise. This looks like a rough year for Disney.Dev-i-Boy has heard that Russians are behind everyone's favourite YouTube channel, Five Minute Crafts. In a story reminiscent of bad Cold War fiction, Russian propaganda is slipped into innocuous seeming YouTube videos. Now we just need a team of teenagers to sneak into the secret Russian video studio lab and uncover their plot.Activision has pulled off a major win in court against the maker of the Humvee. Modern warfare needs modern weapons, and the US courts have ruled in favour of realism over licensing fees. Finally, DJ and Dev-i-Boy can't handle the knowledge. An Australian lizard joins the tiny group of reptiles that both lay eggs and give live birth. This revelation is too much for them to handle though, so we move on to the games of the week.Professor and DJ play Generation Zero, a game about Swedish battle mechs and robot dogs that want to kill you. It's buggy, but generally a good experience. Dev-i played LoZ: Wind Waker again but breaks into a new dimension in VR Chat. Of course, he picked an anime girl avatar. Of course.On to the usual shoutouts and remembrances, and DJ refuses to wrap up the show by performing Waterloo. Maybe next week.Stay safe, and we'll see you all next week.Indiana Jones 5 -https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/indiana-jones-2022/YouTube viral video debunked - https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/how-to-cook-that-creator-ann-reardon-is-debunking-viral-youtube-videos.html/ Call of Duty lawsuit win -https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/call-duty-wins-first-amendment-victory-use-humvees-1287882A lizard can now lay eggs and give live birth -https://theconversation.com/this-lizard-lays-eggs-and-gives-live-birth-we-think-its-undergoing-a-major-evolutionary-transition-133630 - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.15409 Games PlayedProfessor– Generation Zero - https://store.steampowered.com/app/704270/Generation_Zero/Rating : 5/5DJ– Generation Zero - https://store.steampowered.com/app/704270/Generation_Zero/Rating : 4.5/5Dev-i-Boy - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_WakerRating – 5/5- VR Chat - https://store.steampowered.com/app/438100/VRChat/Rating – 3/5Other topics discussedIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Kingdom_of_the_Crystal_SkullThe timeline of the Indiana Jones films is the chronological order of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones and the film series.- https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_of_filmsTransformers film series (Transformers is a series of American science fiction action films based on the Transformers franchise which began in the 1980s. Michael Bay has directed the first five films.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_(film_series)Harrison Ford survives plane crash - https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/14/news/harrison-ford-plane-mishap/index.htmlDisney’s Artemis Fowl Official Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl2r3Fwxz_oJungle Cruise (The Jungle Cruise is a river boat attraction located in Adventureland at many Disney Parks worldwide, namely Disneyland, Magic Kingdom,Tokyo Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneyland. For years, Walt Disney Pictures had been toying with the idea of turning the Jungle Cruise into a full-length action adventure motion picture, which it would be loosely inspired by the theme park attraction of the same name.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_CruiseBruckheimer is very frank about how he almost passed on the project, which is based on the famous Disney theme park ride.- https://web.archive.org/web/20080102184110/http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/425/425848p1.htmlPirates of the Caribbean 6th movie- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(film_series)#Sixth_film How to Cook That (Youtube channel by Ann Reardon)- https://www.youtube.com/user/howtocookthat/videosDebunking Fake Videos & WHO'S behind 5-min crafts? | How To Cook That Ann Reardon- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqa8dsBtno Lonelygirl15 (lonelygirl15, the first of many shows within the fictional LG15 Universe, tells the ongoing story of a group of young adults fighting against a mysterious secret society called, The Order.)- https://www.youtube.com/user/lonelygirl15Sex-workers - idubbbz complains by iDubbbzTV- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQLzOuwDu_8Elsagate (neologism referring to the controversy surrounding videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids that are categorized as "child-friendly", but which contain themes that are inappropriate for children.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElsagateThe FTC action against YouTube and Google- https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2019/11/youtube-channel-owners-your-content-directed-children Why Youtube doesn’t make any profit - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/4-reasons-youtube-still-doesnt-make-a-profit/ The Simpson – Lionel Hutz vs 10 high priced lawyers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3hhAH4mlQk Donald Trump Violated First Amendment by Blocking Critics on Twitter- https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/donald-trump-violated-first-amendment-twitter-blocking-1203542245/ Temperature-dependent sex determination (a type of environmental sex determination in which the temperatures experienced during embryonic/larval development determine the sex of the offspring.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-dependent_sex_determinationDogs (Dogs are autonomous robotic quadrupeds, equipped with a series of lethal weapons.)- https://black-mirror.fandom.com/wiki/DogsBoston Dynamics : Spot - https://robots.ieee.org/robots/spotmini/Japanese students hold graduation ceremony in Minecraft amid school cancellation- https://soranews24.com/2020/03/15/japanese-students-hold-graduation-ceremony-in-minecraft-amid-school-cancellation/Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47891902 Systers (founded by Anita Borg, is an international electronic mailing list for technical women in computing.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystersThe Eleventh Hour (The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery is an illustrated children's book by Graeme Base.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eleventh_Hour_(children%27s_book)Hareraiser (video game released in 1984 in the UK in two parts: Prelude and Finale, comedian and computer game historian Stuart Ashen described and showed the game play, and called it "quite possibly the worst video game ever.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HareraiserAnimalia (an animated children's television series based on the 1986 picture book of the same name by illustrator Graeme Base.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalia_(TV_series) The story behind Jackie Chan’s stunt in Police Story which involved slides several stories down a pole strung with lights, electricity arcing around him as he crashes through multiple panes of glass into a shop stall.- https://observer.com/2019/01/how-jackie-chan-police-story-stunts-changed-movies/Jackie Chan further explains the stunt in Police Story- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZEVz1V-X4w Waterloo ("Waterloo" is the first single from the Swedish pop group ABBA's second album, Waterloo and their first under the Epic and Atlantic labels.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_(ABBA_song) That’s Not COVID (TNC Podcast)- https://thatsnotcanon.com/thatsnotcovidpodcast Shout Outs 5 April 2020 - Shirley Douglas, actress and mother of Kiefer Sutherland dies at 86 - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shirley-douglas-dead-actress-mother-kiefer-sutherland-was-86-1288624Shirley Douglas, an actress in films directed by Stanley Kubrick and David Cronenberg and the mother of actor Kiefer Sutherland. Douglas appeared in Kubrick's Lolita (1962) and Cronenberg's Dead Ringers (1988) and in other movies including Shadow Dancing (1988) and Wind at My Back (1996). In 2003, for her contributions to the performing arts, she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Sutherland announced his mother's death on Twitter, saying "My mother was an extraordinary woman who led an extraordinary life," Sutherland wrote. "Sadly she had been battling for her health for quite some time and we, as a family, knew this day was coming. To any families who have lost loved ones unexpectedly to the coronavirus, my heart breaks for you. Please stay safe." She died of complications surrounding pneumonia at the age of 86 in Toronto,Ontario. His son noted her passing was not related to COVID-19. 5 April 2020 – Anime ending this week 10 years ago according to Japanese netizens - https://soranews24.com/2020/04/05/whered-the-time-go-top-anime-series-that-finished-ten-years-ago-ranked-by-japanese-netizens/Here’s the top ten of this decade-old anime! Which ones have you watched recently?10. Kuroshitsuji II9. Durarara!!8. A Certain Scientific Railgun7. Nodame Cantabile Finale6. HeartCatch PreCure!5. Fullmetal Alchemist4. K-On!!3. Inuyasha: The Final Act2. Animal Detective Kiruminzoo1. Hidamari Sketch×☆☆☆6 April 2020 - ‘Jaws’ actress Lee Fierro dead at 91 from coronavirus complications - https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/jaws-actress-lee-fierro-dead-at-91-with-coronavirus-complications/Lee Fierro, best known as Alex Kintner’s mom in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 shark attack classic “Jaws,” In her iconic scene from “Jaws,” an enraged Fierro confronts Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) and slaps him in the face. “I just found out that a girl got killed here last week and you knew, you knew there was a shark out there. You knew it was dangerous, but you let people go swimming anyway,” her character says, sobbing. “You knew all those things and still my boy is dead now, and there’s nothing you can do about it. My boy is dead.” Fierro reportedly had "objected to the profanity" of the scene's dialogue as originally drafted, and the director, Steven Spielberg, wanted dialogue that accorded with Fierro's "everywoman looks," so the scene's dialogue was rewritten the day before it was filmed. Fierro went on to reprise her role in 1987’s subpar “Jaws: The Revenge” opposite Michael Caine. She died from COVID-19 at the age of 91. Remembrances6 April 1520 – Raphael - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome, much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. He died from fever at the age of 37 in Rome, Papal States.6 April 1944 - Rose O'Neill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_O%27NeillRose Cecil O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She built a successful career as a magazine and book illustrator and, at a young age, became the best-known and highest- paid female commercial illustrator in the United States. O' Neill earned a fortune and international fame by creating the Kewpie, the most widely known cartoon character until Mickey Mouse. Her Kewpie cartoons, which made their debut in a 1909 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, were later manufactured as bisque dolls in 1912 by J. D. Kestner, a German toy company, followed by composition material and celluloid versions. The dolls were wildly popular in the early twentieth century and are considered to be one of the first mass-marketed toys in the United States. Their name, "Kewpie", derives from Cupid, the Roman god of love. According to O'Neill, she became obsessed with the idea of the cherubic characters, to the point that she had dreams about them: "I thought about the Kewpies so much that I had a dream about them where they were all doing acrobatic pranks on the coverlet of my bed. One sat in my hand." She described them as "a sort of little round fairy whose one idea is to teach people to be merry and kind at the same time". O'Neill also wrote several novels and books of poetry, and was active in the women's suffrage movement. She was for a time the highest-paid female illustrator in the world upon the success of the Kewpie dolls. She died from heart failure at the age of 69 in Springfield, Missouri. 6 April 2003 - Anita Borg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. In 1997, Borg founded the Institute for Women and Technology (now the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology). Two important goals behind the founding of the organization were to increase the representation of women in technical fields and to enable the creation of more technology by women. The Institute was created to be an experimental R&D organization focusing on increasing the impact of women on technology and increasing the impact of technology on the world's women. It ran a variety of programs to increase the role of technology, build the pipeline of technical women, and ensure that women's voices affected technological developments. Borg passionately believed in working for greater representation of technical women. Her goal was to have 50% representation for women in computing by 2020. She strove for technical fields to be places where women would be equally represented at all levels of the pipeline, and where women could impact, and benefit from, technology. She died from a brain tumour at the age of 54 in Sonoma, California. Famous Birthdays6 April 1958 - Graeme Base - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_BaseAuthor and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989. He worked in advertising for two years and then began illustrating children's books, gradually moving to authoring them as well. His first book, My Grandma lived in Gooligulch, was accepted by the first publisher he sent it to. He was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. 6 April 1975 - Zach Braff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_BraffAmerican actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his role as J. D. on the television series Scrubs, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2005 and for three Golden Globe Awards from 2005 to 2007. He starred in The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy, In Dubious Battle, and has done voice-work for Chicken Little, Oz the Great and Powerful, and the Netflix series Bojack Horseman. In 2004, Braff made his directorial debut with Garden State, which he also wrote, starred in, and compiled the soundtrack album for. He shot the film in his home state of New Jersey for a budget of $2.5 million. The film made over $35 million at the box office and was praised by critics, leading it to gain a cult following. He won numerous awards for his directing work and also won the Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album in 2005. Braff directed his second film, Wish I Was Here, which he partially funded with a Kickstarter campaign. He was born in South Orange, New Jersey. 7 April 1954 - Jackie Chan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_ChanChan Kong-sang, known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kongese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman, and singer. He is known in the cinematic world for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts, which he typically performs himself. He has trained in Wushu or Kung Fu and Hapkido, and has been acting since the 1960s, appearing in over 150 films. Chan is one of the most recognisable and influential cinematic personalities in the world, gaining a widespread following in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has been referenced in various pop songs, cartoons, and video games. He is an operatically trained vocalist and is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of albums and sung many of the theme songs for the films in which he has starred. He is also a globally known philanthropist and has been named as one of the top 10 most charitable celebrities by Forbes magazine. In 2004, film scholar Andrew Willis stated that Chan was "perhaps" the "most recognised star in the world". In 2015, Forbes estimated his net worth to be $350 million, and as of 2016, he was the second-highest paid actor in the world. He was born in Victoria Peak. 7 April 1964 - Russell Crowe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_CroweRussell Ira Crowe actor, film producer and musician. Although a New Zealand citizen, he has lived most of his life in Australia. He came to international attention for his role as the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the historical film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which Crowe won an Academy Award, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, an Empire Award, and a London Film Critics Circle Award for best actor, along with ten other nominations in the same category. Crowe's other award-winning performances include portrayals of tobacco firm whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand in the drama film The Insider, and John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind. Crowe's other films include, L.A. Confidential, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Cinderella Man, 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster, State of Play, Robin Hood, Les Misérables, Man of Steel, Noah, and The Nice Guys. In 2015, Crowe made his directorial debut with The Water Diviner, in which he also starred. Crowe's work has earned him several accolades during his career, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, one BAFTA and one Academy Award out of three consecutive nominations (1999, 2000, and 2001). Crowe has also been the co-owner of the National Rugby League (NRL) team South Sydney Rabbitohs since 2006. He was born in Wellington. Events of Interest 6 April 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-modern-olympic-gamesOn April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from 13 nations to the international competition. In Athens, 280 participants from 13 nations competed in 43 events, covering track-and-field, swimming, gymnastics, cycling, wrestling, weightlifting, fencing, shooting, and tennis. All the competitors were men, and a few of the entrants were tourists who stumbled upon the Games and could sign up. The track-and-field events were held at the Panathenaic Stadium, which was originally built in 330 B.C. and restored for the 1896 Games. Americans won nine out of 12 of these events. The 1896 Olympics also featured the first marathon competition, which followed the 25-mile route run by a Greek soldier who brought news of a victory over the Persians from Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. In 1924, the marathon was standardized at 26 miles and 385 yards. Appropriately, a Greek, Spyridon Louis, won the first marathon at the 1896 Athens Games.6 April 1909 - Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pearys-expedition-reaches-north-poleOn April 6, 1909, American explorer Robert Peary accomplishes a long elusive dream, when he, assistant Matthew Henson and four Eskimos reach what they determine to be the North Pole. Decades after Peary’s death, however, navigational errors in his travel log surfaced, placing the expedition in all probability a few miles short of its goal. In 1908, the pair travelled to Ellesmere Island by ship and in 1909 raced across hundreds of miles of ice to reach what they calculated as latitude 90 degrees north on April 6, 1909. Although their achievement was widely acclaimed, Dr. Frederick A. Cook challenged their distinction of being the first to reach the North Pole. A former associate of Peary, Cook claimed he had already reached the pole by dogsled the previous year. A major controversy followed, and in 1911 the U.S. Congress formally recognized Peary’s claim. In recent years, further studies of the conflicting claims suggest that neither expedition reached the exact North Pole, but that Peary and Henson came far closer, falling perhaps 30 miles short. On May 3, 1952, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher of Oklahoma stepped out of a plane and walked to the precise location of the North Pole, the first person to undisputedly do so.6 April 1917 - Americans declares war on Germany - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/america-enters-world-war-iTwo days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I. Apart from an Anglophile element urging early support for the British and an anti-Tsarist element sympathising with Germany's war against Russia, US public opinion reflected that of the president: the sentiment for neutrality was particularly strong among Irish Americans, German Americans, and Scandinavian Americans, as well as among church leaders and among women in general. On the other hand, even before World War I had broken out, American opinion had been overall more negative toward Germany than toward any other country in Europe. Over time, especially after reports of atrocities in Belgium in 1914 and following the sinking of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania in 1915, American citizens increasingly came to see Germany as the aggressor in Europe. While the country was at peace, American banks made huge loans to Britain and France, which were used mainly to buy munitions, raw materials, and food from across the Atlantic. Wilson made minimal preparations for a land war but he did authorise a major ship-building program for the United States Navy. The president was narrowly re-elected in 1916 on an anti-war ticket.6 April 1974 - The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career. - https://www.mylifetime.com/she-did-that/april-6-1974-abba-won-the-eurovision-song-contest-for-waterloo-launching-their-international-careerSongwriters and musicians Ulvaeus and Andersson first met in 1966. However, it was in 1969 when the seeds of the soon-to-be Swedish supergroup were planted when Björn met his fiancée, Fältskog, and Benny met his fiancée, Lyngstad. Ulvaeus and Andersson knew how to write contagious pop hits. However, Fältskog and Lyngstad’s beautiful harmonies were integral to the global chart-topping ABBA sound. After “Waterloo” won the 19th edition of the Eurovision song competition, the winning tune reached the No. 1 spot on the UK chart and became a top ten hit in the US on the Billboard Hot 100. “Waterloo” sold six million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time.Follow us on Facebook - Page - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/ - Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamated Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrS iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094 RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rssInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/General Enquiries Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comRate & Review us on Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/nerds-amalgamated-623195

Two men claimed to be the first to the north pole. One man claimed to be the first to fly over. All three were lying. Hear the bizarre story of who truly reached the north pole first.Read more at unlikelyexplanation.com

Drift off in a world of snow and silence with Robert Peary's account of his trek to the world's northernmost point. But first, a rather lengthy history of Arctic exploration going back to the 1500s! Bundle up.   Read "The North Pole" at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18975   Support us on Patreon and get exclusive perks: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod   Follow and chat with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/boringbookspod   Music: “Dream Colours” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY http://leerosevere.bandcamp.com   All Boring Books for Bedtime readings are taken from works in the public domain. If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, send a recommendation on Twitter, on our website, or on Patreon. I'd love to hear from you!

Emitido en febrero de 2018 Las calles del centro de Buenos Aires se colmaron en la marcha contra el Gobierno, aunque el macrismo se adjudicó los méritos. “Está claro que somos el Gobierno que más gente ha dejado en la calle”. Marchó tanta gente que cuando Brasesco se puso a contar, hizo tantos puntitos rojos que se auto disparó por comunista. Además, la marcha se desarrolló sin inconvenientes, o sea, los servicios de inteligencia también adhirieron al paro. Se habla del nacimiento de un polo opositor contra las políticas del Gobierno. A comienzos del siglo pasado, Robert Peary trabajó durante 22 años para llegar al Polo Norte, a partir de ahora el segundo polo más buscado en la historia. La marcha fue un rotundo NO a la política de ajuste. Pero a Macri Clarín le muestra todo al revés, así que el presidente leyó ON y lo entendió como un signo de apoyo, y además en inglés. Re chulo. La marcha fue convocada por gremios de la CGT, las dos CTA y movimientos sociales, sectores que hasta hace poco tiempo tenían diferencias que parecían irreconciliables. ¿Ven cómo Cambiemos está cerrando la grieta? Algunos hablan de 400 mil personas. Otros hablan de 250 mil. Darío Lopérfido sigue diciendo que fueron 8 mil y a Radio Mitre se le rompió el “cuentanegros” en los 120 mil. Según la Policía Federal hubo mucho menos gente. Y eso es raro porque desde que asumió Macri, la Policía Federal siempre TIRA A MÁS. Hugo Yasky aseguró que cada vez que los gremios salen a la calle el gobierno “corre presuroso en busca de un juez amigo” para intervenir sindicatos o inventar causas. Bonadío desmintió esto y dijo que no sería capaz de hacer que el Gobierno corra. Él va adonde lo llamen. “Si quieren buscar ladrones les pasamos una dirección: Balcarce 50, es una casa rosada”, dijo Yasky. Macri en su casa aceptó el desafío y empezó a tratar de adivinar: ¿es la casa de Luis? ¿es la casa de Nicky? ¡Tirá más pistas, más pistas! Yasky afirmó que el 21 F va a quedar en la historia como el día de la unidad de los trabajadores y de los que no nos ponemos de rodillas ante un gobierno de patrones”. Dicen que Diego Bossio no dijo ni sí ni no, pero pidió un almohadoncito porque le dolía la rótula. Sergio Palazzo le pidió a Macri que se dedique a “gobernar para todos los argentinos y no solo para su clase, que es la que se lleva toda la renta nacional”. El Gobierno desestimó esta acusación. Con todo lo que hacemos para que no haya más clases, éstos siguen hablando de clases. Cerramos escuelas, despedimos maestros… y ´estos siguen hablando de clases! El principal orador fue Hugo Moyano, foco de una persecusión mediática por parte de los mismos medios que lo condenaban en 2011 pero lo elogiaban en 2015. Lo mataron, lo revivieron y ahora lo vuelven a matar. Clarín es el Pablo Escobar de los medios. Antes de la marcha, varios trolls de Peña habían invadido las redes llamando a no marchar con Moyano porque “es un traidor”. Todos nos dimos cuenta de que era una operación de falsa bandera porque empezaban los posteos diciendo “hemos resolvido no marchar”: Ahora el Gobierno parece un turista que va apurado por la ruta. No sabe qué hacer con los camioneros. Por el momento, recurre a los jueces cómplices: Ahora Moyano tiene más causas que la diabetes. La Ctep, Barrios de Pie y la CCC fueron las organizaciones que más gente llevaron. El Gobierno les quiso meter infiltrados pero nadie en el Gabinete sabía el significado de las tres C y mandaron a los infiltrados al Centro Cultural de la Cooperación. Después del discurso de Moyano la multitud se desconcentró sin inconvenientes. Como Macri cuando ve un culo. Se desconcentró sin inconvenientes. --- No te pierdas PERONCHO, un show de humor y amor político. Viernes 2 y Sábado 3 de marzo en el café Cultural Caras y Caretas, Venezuela 330. A las 22. Entrada: $200, en venta en boletería desde las 21.

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Cada 24 d'octubre el sol desapareix a Siorapaluk, al nord-oest de Groenl

País España Director Isabel Coixet Guion Miguel Barros Música Lucas Vidal Fotografía Jean-Claude Larrieu Reparto Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kikuchi, Gabriel Byrne, Matt Salinger, Velizar Binev, Ciro Miró, Reed Brody, Alberto Jo Lee Sinopsis Groenlandia, año 1908. Josephine Peary (Juliette Binoche), una mujer rica y culta, inicia una expedición al Polo Norte para reunirse con su marido, el explorador Robert Peary. Durante el viaje se encuentra con una humilde mujer esquimal, Allaka (Rinko Kikuchi). Pese a sus numerosas diferencias culturales y personales, ambas tendrán que unirse para poder sobrevivir a las duras condiciones climáticas de la tundra en el Ártico.

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine the insane drive of Robert Peary to reach the North Pole and gain fame. SOURCES TOUR DATES REDBUBBLE MERCH

Bethel, AK. Steven Rinella talks with Janis Putelis, Mike Washlesky, and Korey Kaczmareck from the MeatEater crew. Subjects discussed: Nunivak Cup'ig Eskimos; Texas pride; jumping out of helicopters while snowboarding; the circumpolar distribution of blue mussels; muskox wool; the Arctic explorer Robert Peary; Mickey Mouse boots vs. bunny boots; the poet and novelist Sadaam Hussein; gear list for a Nunivak Island muskox hunt; Russian fur traders; the subsistence lifestyle on Nunivak Island; seal skin hat-buying misadventures; feeling like an ecological participant vs. an ecological voyeur; and putting into words why you sometimes just want to go right back out and do the same hunt all over again.

Frederick Cook claimed to be the first man to climb to the peak of Mt. McKinley in 1906, in 1909 he claimed to have made it to the North Pole in the spring of 1908. Arctic explorer Robert Peary launched a campaign against Cook and soon no one believed he had done it. In the last several decades people retracing their steps have begun wonder if he really did it. Was Cook really successful or was he a great fraud?

Aquí arranca Piedra de Toque el momento de los viajes, la montaña y la aventura en Onda Vasca. Hoy realizaremos un viaje de papel con el biólogo, escritor y fotógrafo de viajes Jordi Canal Soler. En 2009 se cumplía el centenario de la conquista del Polo Norte por Robert Peary, aniversario que aprovechó el biólogo, escritor y fotógrafo Jordi Canal Soler para recorrerlo con trineos. Durante 9 días, recorrió 111 kilómetros con una media de 40 grados bajo cero en los que puso a prueba su resistencia física y mental. Ahora comparte con todos nosotros la experiencia bajo el título “VIAJE AL BLANCO”, la crónica de esos nueve días de expedición en los que queda claro que la pasión por descubrir mundos nuevos no conoce límites.

The African American Explorers 1   October 13th was Columbus Day in the United States. He is celebrated for his explorations to/around India in the 15th century. Today, we know that he didn’t actually make the trip to India and we don’t want to discuss what he did in the Americas, but there is no denying that Christopher Columbus was an explorer. Of course, there have been (and still are) many people who show the courage to leave their own shore in search of distant lands.  We hear their shories of courage (and sometimes conquest) in history classes and on the Discovery Channel or PBS. But we don’t often learn about African American explorers and their burning desire to explore strange new lands and go boldly where no one has gone before.   This podcast will introduce you to African American explorers and show you that while the world is getting smaller and smaller, the adventures and explorations are getting greater and bolder. The boundaries are endless. The only limit is your imagination, your courage, and your willingness to test your personal limits.   What is your limit? How far are you willing to go for glory?   These stories will show that exploration is not about finding gold or other riches (many explorers, including Columbus, have forgotten that golden rule.) Exploration is a test of your limits and transcending them. And that’s about more than finding new lands…it applies to any new activity like taking a new job or following a new career, getting an education or going back to school, learning a new language or studying a new  subject, moving to a new city or country and evening learning more about yourself.   The people in this podcast series on African American explorers challenged themselves and more.  They went beyond their perceived limits and ultimately expanded their life, their worlds, and themselves. And this continued long after they “returned home” from their journey.   If you’re up to the challenge, let’s begin our journey with an African American man who endured many obstacles and hardships simply to reach a pole: The North Pole!     Matthew Henson: The First Man to Sit on Top of the World!   Born in Maryland in1866, Matthew Henson was an explorer (in every sense of the word) and so we begin our discussion of Black explorers with this incredible—though sometimes forgotten African American—pioneer.   Henson had what one could call a challenging childhood. He was orphaned when he was only 10 years old. Relatives then took care of him and his sisters.  At age 11, he ran away from home and went to live with his aunt in Washington, D.C.  There, he would listen to stories about the sea from his friend, Baltimore Jack, and eventually he started walking to Baltimore to hang around the waterfront to talk with the other sailors. A year later, at the tender of 12, he became a cabin boy on a merchant ship called the Katie Hines and sailed around the world. By the age of 18, he had traveled to China, Japan, Philippines, France, Russia, and Africa. He was a skilled navigator, an experienced sailor, and very well traveled. But his adventures were just beginning.    In 1887, Matthew Henson met Commander Robert Peary (is that name familiar?). This team would make history. Peary hired Henson to travel with him to Nicaragua to survey a canal route. Four years later, Henson and Peary prepared for their first attempt to reach the North Pole. It failed. However, seven was their lucky number. On their 7th attempt, they finally reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909. Yes, it took Henson nearly 20 years to reach the North Pole! That’s determination and Henson had plenty of it.   He was the first person to reach the North Pole!   But it took more than determination and the burning vision that Henson had set on reaching the North Pole. His experience, skill, and hard work all played a huge role in his success. While preparing for reaching the North Pole, Henson learned the Inuit language. He learned their culture. And he learned Arctic survival skills, including building igloos, hunting, and sled driving. He was prepared and primed to reach the North Pole.  Henson also personally trained every member of the team, including Peary himself.   Of course, interesting and conflicting theories have been reported about the race to the North Pole.   For example, while many people credit Robert Peary with reaching the North Pole first, there are stories that Matthew Henson was the first to reach the Pole, beating Peary to the Pole by 45 minutes.  Henson blazed the trail ahead of Peary, whose toes were frozen and was being pulled on the sled.   Others claim that Robert Peary (and also Matthew Henson) never actually reached the North Pole in 1909. Over the years, this achievement has been confirmed by some sources and denied by others.   And many people only acknowledged Robert Peary for reaching the North Pole. Because of racism, the general public discounted or even omitted Matthew Henson’s accomplishments and contributions.  People constantly praised Peary. But Henson was ignored and forgotten. To his credit, Peary acknowledged and repeatedly talked about Henson’s indispensable contribution to the mission, saying that “he could not have made it to the Pole without Henson.” Yet the general public tried to silence this fact.   But none of this really matters.   What matters most, particularly today, is that we know Matthew Henson started life as an orphan and eventually became a world explorer. He had life experiences that many people only dream of. He developed unique skills, learned a unique language, and had a unique (and prosperous) life. He became the first man to sit on top of the world!   Although his accomplishments were discounted or omitted because of racism, we can now give this incredible man, this great explorer, the acknowledgment that he deserves. We can also learn from his experiences.   By the way, in better late than never fashion, Presidents Truman and Eisenhower later acknowledged Matthew Henson’s contribution to reaching the North Pole. And the prestigious Explorers Club elected Henson for membership in 1937, making him the first African American to join the club.   In 1912, Henson published a book about his explorations called A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. It’s an inspiring story about this great explorer and his lifelong journey to the North Pole.  I encourage you to read it for yourself and to read it to your children.  You won’t be able to put it down. And it will definitely lift you up!   Speaking about his explorations, Matthew Henson said, “The lure of the Arctic is tugging at my heart. To me, the trail is calling. The old trail. And the trail that is always new."   There are other African American explorers that felt the lure of the Arctic tugging at their hearts. They also braved the fierce cold of the Polar Regions. I just want to briefly mention George Gibbs who in 1939 became the first Black person to set foot on Antarctica.  A U.S. Navy man selected from 2,000 applicants, Gibbs was a member of Admiral Byrd’s third expedition to the South Pole. And his explorations did not stop there. He later became a civil rights leader in Rochester, New York where he organized the local chapter of the NAACP and challenged segregation in social organizations, including the Elks Club. And he emerged victorious.   So, we know Matthew Henson’s trail led to the North Pole. George Gibbs trail led to the South Pole. Where does your trail lead?   Each of us has our own trail. In the next podcast, our Black explorers have their sights, not going northwards or southwards. But going…upwards.   Next time, we look to where no “African American” man or woman had gone before!   See you next time on robinlofton.com. Thanks to Doug, the lawyer explorer. You can find Doug at www.lawyerexplorer.com. Remember to find your own trail and keep exploring!

Video 45 in the series "A History of the Navy in 100 Objects" presented by the United States Naval Academy. This is about Charles Lindberghs book We.

Lola Escudero nos acerca a la figura del xplorador estadounidense que alegó haber sido la primera persona en llegar al Polo Norte.