David Livingstone


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Noun1.David Livingstone - Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873)David Livingstone - Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873)
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1873: Missionary and explorer David Livingstone died of malaria in central Africa.
A bust depicting Scottish missionary David Livingstone, donated to the Wallace Monument in 1889, is believed to have been created by female sculptor Amelia Hill, and not by David Watson Stevenson as previously thought.
In the period up to December 31, orders from new customers included the refurbishment of office space withinWhyte and MacKay's Grangemouth bottling facility, the construction of two industrial units at Earls Gate Park in Grangemouth for Northern Retail Trust, the conversion ofWestwood House in Edinburgh to create 47 mid-market rental flats for LAR HousingTrust and the restoration of the David Livingstone Birthplace Museum for the David Livingstone Trust.
1871: Henry Morton Stanley, sent to Africa by his newspaper to find Scottish missionary David Livingstone, finally made contact with him at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika with the words: "Dr Livingstone, I presume." 1910: Edward Elgar conducted the first performance of his violin concerto, played by Fritz Kreisler, in the Queen's Hall, London.
1871 - Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'.
The David Livingstone Trust, based in Blantyre, Glasgow, aims to maintain missionary David Livingstone's birthplace as a cultural destination.
Henry Morton Stanley 1871 Henry Morton Stanley, sent to Africa by his newspaper to find Scottish missionary David Livingstone, finally made contact with him at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika with the words: "Dr Livingstone, I presume."
David Livingstone welcomed bleary-eyed viewers at 6.30am and anticipated the unease the switch has caused after the Beeb's 60 years showing golf's oldest Major.
BORN DAVID Livingstone, explorer, 1813 URSULA Andress, actress, 1926, above BRUCE Willis, US film actor, 1955 DIED JOHN De Lorean, car engineer, 2005 PAUL Kossoff, UK rock guitarist, 1976, above EDGAR Rice Burroughs, US author, 1950
David Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease: A Close Examination of His Writing on the Pre-Colonial Era
ABARGAIN-HUNTER bought a rare travel book owned by Victorian explorer David Livingstone for PS1 at a car boot sale - and sold it at auction for PS3,000.