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  David Livingstone - Search View - MSN Encarta
Livingstone was born in Blantyre, Scotland, to religious, working-class parents.
Livingstone returned to England in 1856 a national hero, and he was honored by the Royal Geographical Society.
Livingstone theorized that the Lualaba was the headwaters of the Nile (it is actually the headwaters of the Congo River), but instability caused by slave raiding made further exploration impossible.
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 Livingstone, David, Southern Africa, Congregational
When Livingstone and Venn began their work, a new consciousness of Africa was dawning in Britain, the first industrial nation, conscious as it was of a need for new raw materials and markets, and of a surplus population; but official policy recoiled from expensive commitments and acquisitions of territory overseas.
Livingstone, like Venn, represents a sturdy, confident evangelicalism, secure in its place in national life, sure of its right and duty to influence public and government opinion, and, for all its emphasis on personal regeneration and personal religion, looking to the transformation of society as a normal fruit of Christian activity.
David worked in a cotton-spinning factory from the age of ten, and at the factory school laid the foundation of a sound, though never a learned, education.
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 David Livingstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Livingstone (19 March 1813 1 May 1873) was a Scottish medical missionary and explorer in central Africa.
David Livingstone was born on March 19, 1813 in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, into a family believed to be descended from the highland Livingstones, a clan that had been previously known as the Clan MacLea.
Livingstone returned to Africa as head of the "Zambezi Expedition", which was a British government-funded project to examine the natural resources of southeastern Africa.
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 LIVINGSTONE, David, Botswana/Zambia/Tanzania/Malawi/Angola/Mozambique/South Africa, Congregational
David Livingstone, the most famous Scottish explorer, who revealed Africa to nineteenth-century Europe, was also a missionary forerunner of modern Christianity in Africa.
Livingstone was raised in poverty; the family of nine lived in a single room in a Lanarkshire cotton mill tenement.
David Livingstone returned to Mozambique as British consul at Quelimane, charged with exploration "for the promotion of Commerce and Civilization with a view to the extinction of the slave trade." The 1858 to 1863 expedition was equipped with a paddle-wheel steamer, six Europeans, and ten Africans.
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 Dr David Livingstone - Scottish Missionary and explorer
In February 1858 Livingstone was appointed H.M. consul at Quilimane for the East Coast of Africa to the south of the dominions of Zanzibar, and for the independent districts in the interior, as well as commander of an expedition to explore Eastern and Central Africa.
Livingstone arrived off the Zambesi delta on 15 May. Inside the Luawe bar the sections of the steam-launch Ma-Robert were put together, and the Pearl departed, carrying in her Commander Bedingfield, who had resigned owing to a disagreement with Livingstone in connection with landing stores on Expedition Island.
Livingstone was prostrated with fever, and in spite of every attention from her husband and Dr. Kirk, died on the 27th, and was buried under the large baobab tree at Shupanga.
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 mwtb.org David Livingstone--Missionary to Africa
David Livingstone set everything aside and day and night poured every ounce of his medical skill into her care, but finally, she breathed her last.
Livingstone hadn't seen a white man in five years, but now in the middle of Africa he lifted up his eyes and looked into the face of a white man walking down the trail toward him.
Livingstone, with great agony, had moved himself and rolled off of his cot onto his knees, as was his custom and folded his hands in prayer.
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 Dr. David Livingstone - exploring Africa and searching for the source of the nile - doctor Livingstone I presume
Livingstone wanted a final stop for the slavery -and argued that there were much more profitable ways of exploiting the continent.
Livingstone was fighting slavery with "Christianity, Commerce and Civilization." He wanted to do good for the Africans, but in fact he never respected them as equal human beings.
Stanley himself made a heroic image of Livingstone in his books and articles and he felt that he should be the one to pick up where Livingstone left.
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 Livingstone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Livingstone accepts a model of the components of a complex system such as a spacecraft or chemical plant and infers from them the overall behavior of the system.
Livingstone also takes into account all available information and observations, drawing conclusions which reach across a complex system in a way which would be difficult for a traditional software system or time consuming for a human operator.
Livingstone is able to perform significant deduction in the sense/response loop by drawing on our past experience at building fast propositional conflict-based algorithms for model-based diagnosis, and by framing a model-based configuration manager as a propositional feedback controller that generates focused, optimal responses.
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 David Livingstone
David Livingstone was born on March 13, 1813 in Blantyre, Scotland, near Glasgow.
Livingstone was one of the first Europeans to explore the central and southern parts of Africa.
Livingstone went back to Africa in 1858 and is credited with the discovery of Lake Nyasa in 1858, the Chilwa River in 1859, and more of the Nile River.
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 The Electronic Passport to David Livingstone
Livingston turned instead to Africa and, after a four-month journey, landed in Cape Town, in modern South Africa, in 1841.
Livingstone believed the best way to share his faith with the Africans was to teach them about the outside world.
Livingstone was a very religious man who was appalled by the way the Dutch and Portuguese colonists treated the African people.
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 David Livingstone Scottish missionary explorer to Africa - Christian Biography Resources
David Livingstone (1813-1873) was a Scottish missionary, doctor and explorer who helped open the heart of Africa to missions.
Mary Moffat Livingstone (1820-1862) was born at Griquatown, Africa, to her missionary parents, Robert and Mary Moffat.
She married David Livingstone in 1845, and "echanged one great name for another," and honored both.
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 David Livingstone Scottish missionary Africa - Giants of the Missionary Trail by Eugene M. Harrison
Livingstone had eleven tooth marks as permanent scars and the bone at the top of his left arm was crunched into splinters.
After perilous escapes from crocodiles, hippopotami, and the javelins of hostile savages, Livingstone and his men reached Linyanti, the home of the Makololo, though the Pathfinder himself was nearly deaf from rheumatic fever and almost blind in consequence of being hit on the eye by a branch in the thick forest.
Livingstone at Shupanga, the Pathfinder realized that he was fast nearing the end of his own trail, and dedicated his remaining time and energies to the high task of opposing the traffic in human lives believing that thereby he would be rendering the largest possible service to Africa and to the cause of Christ.
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 Illustrated Guide to Places to Visit - David Livingstone Centre, Blantyre
When Livingstone became the first European to explore large areas of Africa between 1841 and 1873, his exploits reported in his journals were as avidly followed as the first journey to the moon 100 years later - and were just as hazardous.
Livingstone arrived in what was known as "the Dark Continent" in 1841 and moved to a place called in Kuruman where another Scottish missionary, Robert Moffat, was established.
Livingstone's critics say that he was not perhaps the best of missionaries, spending more time on exploration than converting the native population to Christianity.
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 Higher Praise Greatest Preachers (David Livingstone)
Livingstone received a gold medal from the London Royal Geographical for being the first to cross the entire African Continent from west to east.
Upon his return to Ujiji, Livingstone was met by a rescue party led by Henry Morton Stanley, who is said to have greeted the explorer with the famous remark, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley and Livingstone explored the area north of Lake Tanganyika together.
Livingstone completed one of the most amazing journeys ever undertaken - a coast to coast venture that covered four thousand miles of unexplored land, most of which was located along the Zambezi River.
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 Frontline Fellowship - Working for Reformation & Praying for Revival
David Livingstone was one of the greatest missionary pioneer pathfinders of the greatest century of missionary advance.
Livingstone’s great goal of bringing to the world's attention the plight of the Islamic slave trade in Africa was achieved largely through the work of his convert, American journalist Henry Morton Stanley.
David managed to read in the factory by placing his book on a portion of the spinning jenny so that he could catch sentence after sentence as he passed at his work.
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 The David Livingstone Center
David was taught to read and write in a school which is now the middle room of the Shuttle Row Museum.
Later in life David claimed that by reading amid the roar of the textile machinery, he learned to abstract his mind from surrounding disturbances and to read or write with perfect comfort amidst the play of children or near the dancing and songs of savages.
David, however, persevered and later went on to study theology and medicine.
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 David Livingstone Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
David Livingstone (1813-1873) was a Scottish physician and possibly the greatest of all African missionaries, explorers, and antislavery advocates.
David Livingstone was born on March 19, 1813, in Blantyre, coming from Highlanders on his father's side and Lowlanders on his mother's.
Livingstone was now a famous man. In 1855 the Royal Geographical Society had awarded him the Gold Medal; now at a special meeting they made him a fellow of the society.
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 David Livingstone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Livingstone traveled 29,000 miles in Africa, added to the known portion of the globe about one million square miles, discovered many famous lakes, the Zambesi and other rivers, was the first white man to see Victoria Falls, and probably the first individual to traverse the entire length of Lake Tanganyika.
Livingstone decided to rid the valley of them, for he heard that if one in a troop is killed, the rest leave the area.
Livingstone's arm was stiff and useless from then on and, when he raised it, intense pain shot through his body.
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 The My Hero Project - David Livingstone
David Livingstone was born in 1813 into an extraordinarily religious family in Glasgow, Scotland.
David Livingstone stayed committed to his goal of finding a river into the heart of Africa to thwart the slave trade.
David Livingstone was a famous missionary of the nineteenth century.
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 BBC - History - David Livingstone (1813 - 1873)
One of seven children, Livingstone was raised in poverty.
Livingstone returned to Africa in 1864 to look for the ultimate sources of the Nile.
Livingstone moved south again, obsessed by his quest for the Nile sources, but died in May 1873.
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 David Livingstone (1813-1873) & Victoria Falls - Zimbabwe / Zambia - African Safari, July 1999
David Livingstone (1813-1873), Scottish doctor and missionary, considered one of the most important European explorers of Africa, also pioneering the abolition of the slave trade.
Livingstone was born on March 13, 1813, in Blantyre, Scotland, where he spent the first twenty-three years of his life.
Livingstone was often weakened by bouts of African fever.
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 David Livingstone  -  Travel Photos of his life by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Between 1858 and 1863, with half a dozen British assistants and a succession of steam vessels, Livingstone explored the Zambezi, the Shire River, Lake Nyasa, and the Ruvuma River.
In 1861 Livingstone helped the Universities Mission set up a station near Lake Chilwa, south of Lake Nyasa; the death of the mission’s leader and its withdrawal within a year were bitter disappointments.
In addition, Livingstone was disheartened by the slave trading between Lake Nyasa and Africa’s east coast.
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 Scottish Explorer David Livingstone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
David Livingstone (1813-1873) was one of the greatest explorers of the African continent, along the way pioneering the abolition of the slave trade.
Livingstone was a curious combination of missionary, doctor, explorer, scientist and anti-slavery activist.
With Stanley's supplies Livingstone continued his explorations, but he was weak, worn out and suffering from dysentery.
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 iExplore | History's Greatest Explorers
David Livingstone (1813-1873) is often credited with "opening up" the interior of Africa, and rightfully so.
In 1866, Livingstone began his last trip to Africa, an expedition in search of the source of the Nile, which he believed might be Lake Tanganyika.
Livingstone was a tired and broken man when, in October 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley broke through the jungle and found him, near death, in Ujiji.
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