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10 Amazing Forgotten Explorers
Sometimes it’s not enough to be the first, to go the farthest, or even to chart the uncharted. Historical memory can be a fickle mistress, which is why we’ve decided to right historical injustice and celebrate the oft-overlooked pioneers of exploration.
10 Alexander Gordon Laing 1793–1826
For late 18th– and early 19th–century Europeans, Timbuktu was the El Dorado of Africa. But there’s a reason the word “Timbuktu” is still synonymous with remote isolation, because even if Alexander Laing could have accessed Google Maps it wouldn’t have done him any good.
With only a vague idea of where he was heading, the British army officer and his tiny retinue left Tripoli in July 1825. Laing’s local guide promised the plucky Scotsman the journey would take only a few weeks, but the caravan spent 13 months wandering the desert, avoiding warring nomads, and fighting its own war with thirst and hunger.
Cheshire Town Council gets financial update
Cheshire Town Council gets financial update
Cheshire stock photos By Mariah Melendez, Cheshire Herald staff
CHESHIRE â The Town Council found out late last month that during the past year pension expenditures went over budget by about $170,000. Â
âUnfortunately, as our actuaries completed their review of the experience ⦠there were multiple things that worked against us,â Town Manager Sean Kimball said during the April 22 Town Council meeting. âWe had actually hoped that we had conservative numbers in our estimates. But ultimately what happened was that thereâs been a down market, which means our investments werenât quite as high (as we had hoped).â
Hitting Bottom: Submariner Explored Deepest Part of Ocean
Thousands have climbed Mount Everest, and a handful of people have walked on the moon. But reaching the lowest part of the ocean? Only three people have ever done that, and one was a U.S. Navy submariner.
In the Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, lies the Marianas Trench, also known as the Mariana Trench. At 35,814 feet below sea level, its bottom is called the Challenger Deep the deepest point known on Earth. In fact, to put it into perspective, think about the Titanic, which was found 12,600 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean nearly 2.4 miles down.
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