The sensation of cold and howling winds are evoked in the reader’s mind by many books on Polar exploration where a landscape ...

The Olympics had last been staged 1,500 years earlier. In 1909, explorers Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reached the North Pole. It would be November of the same year before the National ...

There are also numerous books about whether Peary made it to the North Pole. Two of the best known are The Noose of Laurels: Robert E. Peary and the Race for the North Pole by Wally Herbert (Atheneum, ...

Peary". "History books and encyclopedias have long said that Robert Peary discovered the North Pole, in 1909. Guess what? The claim of Frederick Cook to have gotten there a year before Peary is ...

In the half light of the North Pole, 50 years after Explorer Robert Peary first got there, the U.S. nuclear submarine Skate cleaved up to the surface through densely packed winter ice. There Skate ...

He was 26 years old. North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary (picture) & Matthew Henson. World’s 1st animated cartoon is released, “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” by J. Stuart Blackton.

Stark describes the group waiting patiently for the whales on an ice floe: "Mamarut sharpened his harpoon; his girlfriend, Tukummeq Peary — a great-granddaughter of Robert Peary — chewed a ...

Rachel Brosnahan, Laurence Fishburne and Caitríona Balfe also star in James Hawes’ film of the Robert Littell novel about a man shattered by loss but galvanized by justice.

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