Matthew Henson, author of "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole", was reinterred aptly near this admiral in 1988
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Matthew Henson facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Make research projects and school reports about Matthew Henson easy with ... 1954; reinterred with full military honors to Arlington National Cemetery, 1988. .... Ironically, Peary was appointed to the rank of rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, but .... A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, Fred A. Stokes & Co., 1912, published as A...
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A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew ...  Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. Robert Peary is remembered as the intrepid ... A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson .... by S. Allen Counter, author of North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo .... Have you ever heard of Admiral Perry and his journey to the North Pole?
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Matthew Henson, Robert E. Peary, North Pole  1912 Book Reviews of A Negro Explorer at The North Pole - The New York Times ... "Admiral Peary's assistant in the discovery of the North Pole has shown that he ... 100th anniversary gift from Dark Companion author Bradley Robinson's son.
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Matthew Henson - Explorer - Biography.com  Mar 31, 2016 ... Matthew Henson was an African-American explorer who discovered the North ... He recorded his Arctic memoirs in 1912, in the book A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. ... Matthew Henson died in New York City on March 9, 1955, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. ... Author. Biography.com Editors...
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Matthew Henson - Wikipedia  Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866  March 9, 1955) was the first Arctic explorer, on ... Henson published his memoir, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912). ... were reinterred with a monument at Arlington National Cemetery, near that for .... In a 1988 article, Counter noted that these two women had letters and...
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Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett: First to Fly over the North Pole ...  Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett: First to Fly over the North Pole ... Exploring the Arctic by air was not exactly a new idea in 1926. ... Loaded with 52 men, two planes, survival gear, six-months' worth of rations and ... On the morning of May 4, the Fokker Trimotor, with Navy aviation pilot-mechanic Floyd Bennett at the...
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Jeukins, Edward p. Sd. National Science Teachers Associaticn ... - Eric  53 MATTHEW A. HENSONFamous Explorer. 59 LEON RODDYThe ... He decided to hire himself out to one of them, earn fare to New. York, and there earn...
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A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: Matthew Henson ... - Amazon.com  Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Booker T. Washington was an African-American teacher, ... He was still a child when his parents Lemuel and Caroline died. ... For years they made many trips together, including Arctic voyages in which ... In 1912 Matthew Henson wrote the book A Negro Explorer at the North Pole about...
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Chronology of Matthew Henson's life  A few months after his 11th birthday Matthew Henson decides to run away after being in ... In 1909 Cook lied by telling newspapers that he went to the North Pole before ... Kap/Cape Henson (77 degrees, 23 minutes North [latitude], 71 degrees, .... unknown evidence to prove that Henson & Peary reached 90 degrees North.
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Matthew Henson - Explorer - Biography.com  Mar 31, 2016 ... Explorer Robert Edwin Peary hired Henson as his valet for expeditions. For more than two decades, they explored the Arctic, and on April 6, 1909, Peary, Henson and the rest of their team made history, becoming the first people to reach the North Poleor at least they claimed to have.
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Antarctic Explorers: Paul A. Siple - South-Pole.com  However, when class opened in the fall of 1928, Paul Siple was earning his sea-legs ... On several of these occasions, he and Admiral Byrd lectured together. ... the opportunity for a Boy Scout to accompany the First Byrd Antarctic Expedition. ... for his first Antarctic expedition, asked the men who were to go along to agree to...
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Matthew Alexander Henson, Explorer - Arlington National Cemetery  Henson accompanied Peary on each of his eight Arctic voyages and was ... The man Robert Peary termed indispensable in his final 5-day dash to North Pole. ... Peary, an engineer and explorer, came in looking for a sun helmet for a trip ... When the store owner learned that Peary needed a valet, he recommended Henson.
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Wiki Byrd - Admiral Byrd Diary  They are too stupid to understand that not all factual events have been recorded in ... Byrds 1926 North Pole flight, and controversy. On 9 May 1926, Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett attempted a flight over the North Pole in a ... cast doubt on Byrd's claim on the basis of his extensive personal knowledge of the airplane's speed.
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Matthew Henson - Explorer - Biography.com  Mar 31, 2016 ... Matthew Henson was an African-American explorer who discovered the ... Henson and the rest of their team made history, becoming the first people to ... But shortly thereafter, Henson joined Peary again, for an expedition to Greenland. ... and Henson would make multiple attempts to reach the North Pole.
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We Still Don't Know Who Was First to the North Pole  Aug 25, 2016 ... It was the morning of April 6, 1909. American Commander Robert Peary, his assistant Matthew Henson, and four Inuit men arrived at what was, according to Peary's reading of his sextant, exactly 90 degrees north latitude. ... His intention was to transverse the Arctic alone, but he soon learned that this was a...
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Peary & Henson reach the North Pole # Quiz # Question - YouTube  Jul 8, 2016 ... Peary & Henson reach the North Pole # Quiz # Question ... video icon  Henson, Perry, McConaughey # Quiz # Question. 0:29. FirstAmVideo.
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Matthew Henson - Explorer - Biography.com  Mar 31, 2016 ... Matthew Henson was an African-American explorer who discovered the North ... It was there that, in 1887, he met Robert Edwin Peary, an explorer and ... Peary hired him as his valet for an upcoming expedition to Nicaragua.
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Col. Frederick Drew Gregory | The HistoryMakers  Jul 27, 2007 ... Frederick Drew Gregory, Sr. was born on January 7, 1941 in Washington, ... in 1976 and was selected as one of thirty-five astronauts by NASA in 1978. ... In 1989, Gregory became the first African American space commander when he commanded the mission STS-33 on board the space shuttle Discovery.
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fact sheet  uss nautilus and voyage to north pole, august 1958  The Ice Diaries  the inside story of the trip to the North Pole by USS Nautilus in August 1958, by Captain. William R. ... enable the submarine to continue under-ice exploration and still ... o Proved the capability of U.S. nuclear submarines to work beneath ... of traveling from one great ocean to the other, under the cover of.
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Charles Wilkes - Wikipedia  Charles Wilkes (April 3, 1798  February 8, 1877) was an American naval officer, ship's captain ... He entered the United States Navy as a midshipman in 1818, and became a ... reported the discovery "of an Antarctic continent west of the Balleny Islands" of ... As part of these duties he visited the British colony of Bermuda.
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Nautilus travels under North Pole - Aug 03, 1958 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Nautilus travels under North Pole on Aug 03, 1958. ... On August 3, 1958, the U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplishes the first .... Christopher Columbus sets sail in command of three shipsthe Santa Maria, the...