Explorer Overshadowed by Lewis and Clark
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Two centuries ago, before Lewis and Clark went in search of a passage to the Pacific Ocean, David Thompson paddled the Columbia River, worked to establish a trading alliance with Mandan Indians and made maps of North America that ultimately became the guide for explorers who followed him.
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Netizens often like to compare the settlement of the Internet with that of the American West. The explorers charted new territory, observes product developer Chad Harrington of Zone Labs, a San Francisco-based
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From Narnia to a Space Odyssey is a collection of the infrequent correspondence between noted authors Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis. I didn't even know they had corresponded, so I picked the book up from a bargain shelf for $4, and it turned out to be a fairly interesting if not particularly substantial bit of history, focusing mainly on their disagreements over space travel, and mainly initiated and driven by Clarke's attempts to engage Lewis in debate on the matter.
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Some laud moves with the two nations. Others are suspicious.
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It was not exactly a welcome mat that greeted Kevin Gover, the new director of the Smithsonianâs National Museum of the American Indian.
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SHERIDAN, Wyo. _ The oil and gas boom of the West has also opened vast lands to discoveries by an unlikely group: archaeologists such as Kevin O'Dell.
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More overseas enterprise archaeology from an itinerant Fool.
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When newspaper editor Lou Ureneck took his teenage son Adam on a 110-mile river journey through the Alaskan wilderness in August 2000, he had more in mind than observing wildlife and catching salmon and Arctic char.
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By Linda Lange, lange@knews.com  An opportunity to circumnavigate New Guinea proved irresistible. I really didnt intend on going. My year was already planned, says Dr. Peter Stimpson of Loudon.
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Researchers claim to have solved the mystery of the people who simply do not count. It could be because they are lost for words. The Piraha of the Amazon have almost legendary status in language research.
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PARIS, Dec 2 (IPS) - To compare him to Charles Darwin or Alexander von   Humboldt might be too much. But French explorer Jean-Louis  Etienne is  proposing an effort similar to these giants as he  heads to Clipperton, a  tiny Pacific island 1,300 km southwest of  the Mexican resort of Acapulco.
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Yes, and the explorers can drop even harder. Therein lies opportunity.
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An article last Sunday about travelers who seek destinations that they think are ecologically endangered misspelled the surname of the editor in chief of Travel & Leisure. She is Nancy Novogrod, not Novograd.
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By Leigh Dethman Deseret Morning News  Gus Chin feels like an outsider, even though he's lived in Utah for 24 years.  The Jamaican native still remembers the first day he arrived in the valley, the awkward stares and whispers.
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In the growing debate about when people first appeared on this continent, a leading archaeologist said Wednesday he has discovered what could be sooty evidence of human occupation in North America tens of thousands of years earlier than is commonly believed.
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The discovery of remains of a tiny human closely related to man on the remote Indonesian island of Flores and tales of Hobbit-like creatures who still roam its jungles have triggered an influx of visitors in search of a fabled lost world.
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A now-extinct tribe could have been the first settlers of the Americas, a university researcher told a science conference in Britain.