Old Glory first flew at the North Pole when this Navy explorer planted it there
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What Do You Know About Old Glory? - tribunedigital-orlandosentinel  Jun 13, 1993 ... Q. How big was the flag that flew over Fort McHenry in 1814?A. It was 30 feet wide ... Q. Who planted the first flag at the North Pole? A. Polar explorer Robert E. Peary. Q. Who ... South Pole? A. U.S. Navy Adm. Richard Byrd.
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Amundsen's South Pole expedition - Wikipedia  The first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer ... Amundsen and his team returned safely to their base, and later learned that Scott ... Cook and Robert E. Peary each claimed to have reached the North Pole. .... Amundsen chose three naval lieutenants as his expedition's officers:...
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Naval History Blog  Blog Archive  Adventures of Old Glory  Jul 3, 2012 ... Robert E. Peary, civil engineer, U.S. Navy, reached the North Pole, a goal he had ... With the explorer at the time were Matthew Henson, colored, and four Eskimos. When he planted the American flag on the top of the world, Peary ... of the parliament building in London, being the first foreign flag to fly there.
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Saturday JEOPARDY - Discuss Cooking - Cooking Forums  ($800)- Old Glory first flew at the North Pole when this Navy explorer planted it there [ who is Robert Peary ? ] 5. ($2400)- The American flag flies...
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Matthew Alexander Henson, Explorer - Arlington National Cemetery  Arctic explorer. ... Reaching the North Pole for the first time in history was success enough for anybody. ... In 1996, a Navy ship, the USNS Henson, was named for him. ... A cable-TV movie about Henson's exploits, "Glory and Honor," came out in ... From there they took a Russian charter flight (in a special plane designed to...
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S.F. welcomed 1st Northwest Passage sailor but mistreated sloop ...  May 8, 2015 ... The Norwegian explorer's ship, the Gjoa, was beached in S.F. for more than 60 years. ... Men sail home at the end of a day of construction work on the original Bay ... The Gjoa reached Nome in 1906. ... frames, experiencing the voyage through the Northwest Passage on an LSD trip. ... Load more in Section.
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Russian researchers are plucked from a drifting ice research station ...  Sep 17, 2015 ... A dramatic North Pole rescue: Russian scientists are plucked from a ... experiments on drifting ice stations with the first launched in 1937; The ... the North Pole since the 1930s and when the ice starts to break up, .... 'NP-1' operated for 9 months, during which the ice floe travelled 1,770 miles (2,850km).
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Byrd flies over the North Pole? - May 09, 1926 - HISTORY.com  General Interest. 1926 ... explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole on this day in ... by aviator Bernt Balchen, he made the undisputed first aircraft flight over the South Pole. ... Robert Peary Reaches North Pole...
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Who Discovered the North Pole? | History | Smithsonian  A century ago, explorer Robert Peary earned fame for discovering the North Pole ... Future Is Here .... Cook sailed north on a rescue ship, found Peary and treated him for ailments ... rags of furin April 1909, some 14 months after they had set out for the pole. ..... Roald Amundsen (with Nobile) as the first to reach both poles.
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Peary Or Cook: Who Discovered The North Pole? | American History ...  Almost simultaneously two men claimed to have attained a goal that ... a Newfoundlander who was master of Peary's North Pole Expedition ship, the Roosevelt . .... At the same time, those years had seen him become increasingly withdrawn and .... On September 1, 1909, Americans thrilled to some surprising news...
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Operation Deep Freeze - Wikipedia  As early as 1839, Captain Charles Wilkes led the first U.S. Naval expedition into Antarctic waters. In 1929, Admiral Richard E. Byrd established a naval base at...
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Richard E. Byrd | Virginia Historical Society Robert E. Byrd  ... first man (along with crew member Floyd Bennett) to fly over the North Pole on May 9, 1926. Some experts dispute that Byrd actually reached the North Pole,...
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14.4 Tangaroa - Pacific Voyage - Testing Heyerdahl's Theories ...  As far back as I can ever remember, Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) has always ... His fame is most closely associated with his first voyage across the Pacific Ocean ... Left: Map of Kon-Tiki voyage, which generally followed by the Tangaroa raft. ... to build a raft and repeat Heyerdahl's Pacific expedition, it would have been like...
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Roald Amundsen - EnchantedLearning.com  Roald Amundsen (July 16, 1872-June 22, 1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer ... to fly over the North Pole in a dirigible (May 11-13, 1926) and was the first ... the world through the Northeast and Northwest passages, from the Atlantic to ... In 1899, Amundsen became a sea captain himself and organized an ... K-3 Themes
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The road to the magnetic north pole  Some place in the Canadian arctic, the compass needle refuses to indicate a ... who found the area interesting, and by the coincidence that the magnetic pole lay .... One of those who delivered an answering treatise was the young Norwegian ... could reap the honour for the first through voyage between 1903 and 1905.
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Section Seven: Engravings from Arctic Expeditions | Osher Map ...  In 1906 Norwegian Roald Amundsen became the first to navigate the ... and a 45-ton herring boat, the Gja, to deftly navigate the narrow channels of the passage. ... such as the use of dogs to haul sleds (the English were still using sailors to pull ... as they searched for the Northwest Passage or journeyed to the North Pole.
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Peary and the North Pole 100 Years Ago Today  National ...  Apr 6, 2009 ... Admiral Robert E. Peary's crew, pictured here in the vicinity of the North Pole, ... One hundred years ago today, April 6, 1909, a team of explorers led by Admiral Robert ... for which U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt awarded Peary the National ... the ship used by Robert Peary on his 1908-1909 expedition.
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Naval History Blog  Blog Archive  First American Sighting of ...  Jan 19, 2012 ... On January 19th, 1840, Lt. Charles Wilkes, during an expedition ... He has the distinction of being the first in the United States to set up fixed astronomical .... I gave the land the name of the Antarctic Continent, he wrote at this time. .... same extent as those of any explorer sighting land at a great distance.
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J! Archive - Show #1525, aired 1991-03-29  It's believed his association with the North Pole & reindeer came from Scandinavian legend ... Regular job of the first surface ship to reach the North Pole...
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Richard E. Byrd - Wikipedia  Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (October 25, 1888  March 11, 1957) was an ... Byrd claimed that his expeditions had been the first to reach both the North Pole ... On June 8, 1912, Byrd graduated from the Naval Academy and was ..... loan from the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He was a...
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Peary's expedition reaches North Pole? - Apr 06, 1909 - HISTORY ...  On April 6, 1909, American explorer Robert Peary accomplishes a long elusive dream, when he, assistant Matthew Henson, and four Eskimos reach ... Peary, a U.S. Navy civil engineer, made his first trip to the interior of Greenland in 1886. ... of ice to reach what they calculated as latitude 90 degrees north on April 6, 1909.