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The mapping of Mount Everest

The mapping of Mount Everest
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Names of Wick s Distinguished Visitors could feature on new stone at riverside

Plans are being made to copy all the names from the 100-year-old Distinguished Visitors plaque in Wick onto a new stone positioned at the riverside.

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They found the source of the Nile – and became lifelong enemies

The 19th-century British explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were mismatched from the start, writer Candice Millard explains.

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Mary Livingstone has lingered in the shadow of her famous husband, but the tale of love and tragedy is re-emerging

Mary Livingstone has lingered in the shadow of her famous husband, but the tale of love and tragedy is re-emerging
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Florence Baker: The slave who braved all for love

Very few people who visited the gracious home of Sir Samuel and Lady Florence Baker in Sandford Orleigh, Devon, knew of their wild adventures and enduring love affair that began as they locked eyes at a slave auction in Vidin, Bulgaria, in 1859. Florence was born in Transylvania and travelled with her soldier-father during the Hungarian revolution. After the defeat of his army, most of her family were murdered by Vlad peasants. She was sent to a refugee camp in Vidin where she was kidnapped and sold to Armenians to be raised in a harem. For the next few years, pampered, educated and treated kindly, she did not realise she was being groomed as a slave until auction day.

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