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  2. Roy Chapman Andrews - Wikipedia

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    Expeditions in the area stopped during 1926 and 1927. In 1928, the expedition's finds were seized by Chinese authorities but were eventually returned. The 1929 expedition was cancelled. In 1930, Andrews made one final trip and discovered some mastodon fossils. A cinematographer, James B. Shackelford, made filmed records of many of Andrews ...

  3. Frank Hurley - Wikipedia

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    Frank Hurley was the third of five children to parents Edward and Margaret Hurley and was raised in Glebe, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. [1] He ran away from home at 13 to work on the Lithgow steel mill, returning home two years later to study at the local technical school and attend science lectures at the University of Sydney.

  4. Joseph R. Walker - Wikipedia

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    Joseph R. Walker (December 13, 1798 – October 27, 1876) was a mountain man and experienced scout.He established the segment of the California Trail, the primary route for the emigrants to the gold fields during the California gold rush, from Fort Hall, Idaho to the Truckee River.

  5. Nuclear family - Wikipedia

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    Some sociologists and anthropologists consider the extended family structure to be the most common family structure in most cultures and at most times, rather than the nuclear family. [1] [2] The term nuclear family was popularized in the 20th century. Since that time, the number of North American nuclear families is gradually decreasing, while ...

  6. Threads (1984 film) - Wikipedia

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    Threads is a 1984 British apocalyptic war drama television film jointly produced by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. Written by Barry Hines and directed and produced by Mick Jackson, it is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England.

  7. Ranulph Fiennes - Wikipedia

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    He led expeditions up the White Nile on a hovercraft in 1969 and on Norway's Jostedalsbreen Glacier in 1970. A notable trek was the Transglobe Expedition he undertook between 1979 and 1982, when he and two fellow members of 21 SAS, Oliver Shepard and Charles R. Burton, journeyed around the world on its polar axis, using surface transport only ...

  8. Karen Silkwood - Wikipedia

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    Karen Gay Silkwood was born in 1946 in Longview, Texas, and raised in Nederland, Texas.She lived with her mother Merle, father Bill, and sisters Rosemary and Linda. [1] In high school, Karen was a straight 'A' student and a member of the National Honor Society.

  9. Gaspar Corte-Real - Wikipedia

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    Gaspar was born into the noble Corte-Real family on Terceira in the Azores Islands, [1] the youngest of three sons of Portuguese explorer João Vaz Corte-Real (c. 1420–1496). Gaspar accompanied his father on expeditions to North America. His brothers were explorers as well. [2]