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  Hiram Bingham III Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hiram Bingham was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on November 19, 1875, the son of retired missionaries from an old Hawaiian family.
Bingham was born in Honolulu, Hawai'i, to Hiram Bingham II (1831-1908), an early Protestant missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i, the grandson of Hiram Bingham I (1789–1869), another missionary.
Bingham was thrilled by the prospect of unexplored Incan cities, and in 1911 returned to the Andes with the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911.
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 Hiram Bingham III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, (19 November 1875 6 June 1956) was an American academic, explorer and politician.
Bingham achieved the rank of captain of the Connecticut National Guard in 1916.
Bingham was reelected to a full six-year term in the Senate in 1926.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiram_Bingham_III   (1007 words)

  
 Bingham
Bingham (1905-1998) Written by his son Alfred M. Bingham, this biography conveys the ambitious, multifaceted personality of Hiram Bingham III, the explorer who rediscovered the lost Inca ruins of Machu Picchu.
The son and grandson of New England missionaries in the Pacific, Hiram Bingham was raised to carry on the family tradition within the church.
Bingham was born into a missionary family in Hawaii, married the heiress to the Tiffany fortune, and in 1911 set off to make a name for himself, hoping to find the lost city of the Incas.
www.ifip.com /Bingham.htm   (649 words)

  
 YAM December 2002 - Secrets of the Temple
Bingham, Class of 1898, was already known as a fearless explorer who had braved sheer cliffs, rickety footbridges, bandits, tropical diseases, and poisonous snakes in earlier journeys through South America.
Bingham's destination was a ridge rumored to contain interesting ruins built by the Inca, a native people whose rule over an empire that stretched from Colombia to Chile was ended in the 16th century by Spanish conquistadors.
But when Bingham finished his ascent and scanned a broad plateau spread out before him, he thought he'd found that fabled "lost city." Although much of the area was hidden underneath nearly four centuries worth of trees and vines, the explorer soon spotted stonework "as fine as the finest.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/02_12/machupicchu.html   (1798 words)

  
 Hiram Bingham III - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, (19 November 1875–6 June 1956) was an American explorer and politician.
Bingham was born in Honolulu, Hawai'i, the son and grandson of early Protestant missionaries to the Kingdom of Hawai'i.
On December 16, Bingham was elected as a Republican to serve in the United States Senate to fill a vacancy created by the suicide of Frank Bosworth Brandegee.
www.music.us /education/H/Hiram-Bingham-III.htm   (751 words)

  
 .:: Welcome To The Jewish Ledger ::.
Bingham's stamp is a part of "Distinguished American Diplomats," a set of stamps which honors six American diplomats for their "contributions to international relations - not only as negotiators and administrators - but also as trailblazers, shapers of policy, peacemakers and humanitarians" according to the U.S. Postal Service.
Bingham, a native of Salem and the son of former Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator Hiram Bingham III, served as a U.S. vice consul in charge of visas in Marseilles, France.
Bingham was one of the diplomats featured in 2001 in the "Visas for Life: The Righteous and Honorable Diplomats," exhibit which traveled around the country to honor diplomats who helped Jewish during the war.
www.jewishledger.com /articles/2006/05/25/news/on_the_cover/news01.txt   (274 words)

  
 U.S. Consulate General Marseille
Hiram (Harry) Bingham IV was born in Connecticut in 1903.
His father, Hiram Bingham III, was the archeologist and explorer who rediscovered the largely forgotten Incan city of Machu Picchu before turning to politics and serving as both governor of Connecticut and U.S. senator.
Bingham supplied crucial support to journalist Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee, a group established with the help of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt to bring to the United States 200 refugee artists, intellectuals and their families.
www.amb-usa.fr /marseille/events/bingham.html   (897 words)

  
 bronsonreynolds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hiram Bingham was one of the first missionaries to arrive in Hawaii in 1820.
Hiram II (her brother) was a missionary to the Gilbert Islands.
Reynolds nephew Hiram III in 1900 married Louis C. Tiffany's niece, Alfreda Mitchel.
www.drbronsontours.com /bronsonreynolds.html   (92 words)

  
 George & Eileen Anderson
Hiram Bingham I had the distinction of taking the first band of missionaries to Hawaii in 1819 to proclaim the gospel.
His son, Hiram Bingham II, was also inspired by missionary fervour, and in the Sandwich Islands single-handedly completed the daunting task of translating the Bible into Gilbertese.
Hiram Bingham IV certainly thought so, and settled quietly into the US diplomatic service with a posting, in 1939, to Marseilles, France as the American vice-consul.
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 David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome
Hiram Bingham III was the archaeologist who in 1911 discovered the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu, in Peru, and upon whom Steven Spielberg based his famous movie character, Indiana Jones.
Their son, Hiram (Harry) Bingham IV, chose to enter the diplomatic service, and in 1939 was posted as a U.S vice-consul in Marseilles, France.
Bingham arranged for the famous German Jewish novelist, Lion Feuchtwanger, to be smuggled out of an internment camp disguised in women's clothing, and he personally hid Feuchtwanger in his home until he could secret him out of the country.
www.wymaninstitute.org /articles/2003-06-bingham.php   (913 words)

  
 Hiram College - Athletics
A 1998 graduate of Hiram with a Bachelor's degree in Biology, Bingham played on three Ohio Athletic Conference championship teams, including the 1995 squad which reached the "Sweet 16" of the NCAA Division III National Tournament.
Bingham was named to the All-Ohio and All-Mideast Regional teams in 1996 and 1997 and was an the school's Clyde A. Lamb award recipient in 1998.
In addition to his duties at Hiram, Bingham is an aquatics biologist for Enviroscience, Inc. in Stow, Ohio, and is also an assistant coach with the GFS Soccer Club.
www.hiram.edu /athletics/menssports/soccer/coaches.html   (508 words)

  
 The expeditionary eye: reconstructing the first photographs of Machu Picchu, Peru. - Journal, Magazine, Article, ...
Bingham's photographs were important for establishing the scientific and popular perceptions of Machu Picchu.
The conclusions drawn by Hiram Bingham III (1875-1956) when he first saw the site, and assertively restated through his various publications, are now dismissed as erroneous by archaeologists, anthropologists and others involved in the study of Peruvian history.
Bingham believed the site to be the birthplace of the Inca people; more recent research has shown the site to be a private estate of the Inca emperor.
goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-136815_ITM   (700 words)

  
 Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham was born on November 19, 1875 in Honolulu, Hawaii and was descended from Deacon Thomas Bingham, who had come to the American colonies in 1650 and settled in
Bingham was a U.S. Senator for eight years but lost his seat to Democrat Augustine Lonergan which ended his political career.
Bingham was a member of the Royal Geographical Society and the National Geographical Society.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/bingham_hiram.html   (479 words)

  
 portland imc - 2005.12.01 - Peru wants stolen Machu Picchu grave goods back from Skull & Bones--I mean, Yale Univ.
Hiram III was son and grandson of New England (some Skull and Bones) missionaries in the Pacific, and was raised to carry on the family tradition within the church.
Bingham some three weeks ago to provide to us some first-hand evidence to support any of his outlandish claims that are posted in his website and in a number of newspaper articles (that with ease can be discredited) with respect to his father's purported humanitarian deeds and acts of heroism.
Bingham's father have long been recognized as belonging to our true national hero, Varian Fry --the only American to be honored by the State of Israel with the "Righteous Among the Nations" title, and the only American honored by the US Consulate in Marseille with naming its plaza after his name.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2005/12/329659.shtml   (3746 words)

  
 CNN.com - Connecticut: Museum unveils mystery of the Incas - Feb. 14, 2003
Bingham, a historian, was looking for the fabled Lost City of the Inca when he found Machu Picchu.
During three trips from 1911 to 1915, Bingham's crew hacked back the jungle and uncovered artifacts from burial chambers that showed the sophisticated and diverse life the Incas enjoyed before the Spanish conquest.
Bingham was a historian, not an archaeologist, so he made some incorrect assumptions about what Machu Picchu was, Burger said.
www.cnn.com /2003/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/02/13/machu.picchu.exhibit.ap   (876 words)

  
 Athena Review Exhibition Reports: Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas
Then, in 1911, Hiram Bingham III, who was already a seasoned explorer of South America, set out to find the city of Vilcabamba (also known as Vitcos), the Inca’s last refuge from the invading Spaniards, which was not taken by them until 1572 (see Deyermenjian, this issue).
Bingham and his team, known as the Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition (YPSE), were sponsored by Yale University and the National Geographic Society, along with Bingham’s family and Yale classmates.
Bingham used this to back up his theory that the last residents of Machu Picchu included a preponderance of Virgins of the Sun or “Chosen Women,” who wove and mixed chicha for the imperial family (Bingham 1948:190).
www.athenapub.com /12machu.htm   (2255 words)

  
 Ohr Somayach :: Torah Weekly :: Parshat Mikeitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1911, Hiram Bingham III discovered the legendary Inca city of Macchu Picchu in Peru.
Hiram had a son called, not very imaginatively, Hiram Bingham IV.
Bingham decided this was immoral and, putting his conscience before his career, did everything in his power toundermine the official US foreign policy.
ohr.edu /yhiy/article.php/562   (1342 words)

  
 Hiram Bingham IV's Role Told by the Yad Vashem
AND THE RESCUE OF Hiram "Harry" Bingham, IV, is probably one of only two American diplomats who came to the aid and rescue of Jews and other refugees during the Holocaust.
Bingham was raised with privilege and opportunity, with a deep sense of commitment to serving humanity.
Harry Bingham was third secretary at the embassy in London, and had the honor of escorting her on that occasion.
pages.cthome.net /WWIIHERO/visas.html   (1147 words)

  
 PropertyProf Blog: What Missionaries Thought: About Property Law, For Instance
Bingham's memoirs, Twenty One Years in the Sandwich Islands (full text available through the Library of Congress), tell his story of the unfolding of the missions and the progress of the propagation of Christianity.
Bingham wrote of the snow-capped volcano a "striking view of the majestic Maunakea, distant about 120 miles whose icy and snowy summit glittered in the morning sunbeams, beckoning them onward to the station beyond its south-eastern base." (206) But often there was a juxaposition of the romantic with the missionaries' goals.
Bingham was not alone in his interpretation of the Hawaii government in terms of property.
lawprofessors.typepad.com /property/2006/10/what_missionari.html   (1825 words)

  
 World Heritage Review #11
It was discovered on 24 July 1911 by Hiram Bingham III (1875-1956), Director of the Peruvian Expedition of the University of Yale.
Bingham must have been absolutely astonished to find intact under a layer of vegetation a city that had gone unnoticed ever since it had been abandoned 400 years earlier.
The settlement Bingham discovered is made up of two clearly different sectors, one agricultural and one urban.
whc.unesco.org /whreview/article5.html   (1658 words)

  
 Latin American Collection at Yale University
Relevant to Latin Americanists are the letters and memorials of the secretary of King Philip III (1598-1621), addressing the "decadence" of the politics, society and economy of Spain in the early 17th century.
The career of Hiram Bingham III (1875-1956) was one of the building blocks of the United States' historical, scientific, political, and exploration engagement with Latin America in the first third of the twentieth century.
Bingham's personal papers are contained in the Bingham Family Papers, and include ten years of teaching materials, and correspondence and publications that illustrate his critique of the Monroe Doctrine and advocacy of Pan-Americanism.
www.library.yale.edu /latinamerica/mss.html   (2150 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham is the name of several people.
Hiram Bingham I, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
Hiram Bingham II, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Hiram_Bingham   (127 words)

  
 Humanarchives.org :: Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, (19 November 1875 6 June 1956) was an American academic, explorer and politician.
BINGHAM, Hiram, (father of Jonathan Brewster Bingham), a Senator from Connecticut; born in Honolulu, Hawaii, November 19, 1875; educated at Punahou School and Oahu College, Hawaii, 1882-1892...
Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) was the leader of the Yale University Peruvian Expeditions of 1911-1912...
humanarchives.org /members/1040/archive   (287 words)

  
 Machu Picchu
Hiram Bingham, a professor at Yale University, had been in attendance at a scientific conference in Santiago, Chile, when he received an invitation to tour ancient Peruvian cities.
Incorrectly, Bingham assumed that he had found Vilcabamba, the rebel city of Sapa Inca Manco Inca, destroyed by the Spanish in 1572.
Bingham is a controversial figure in Machu Picchu's history.
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Places/Place/646678   (1452 words)

  
 Inca-Art_store
Ever since its discovery by Hiram Bingham in 1911 it has puzzled and fascinated the mind of man. Up to now no one has been able to come up with a completely plausible explanation as to why the Incas built this spectacular city high up on a ridge in the rugged mountains of the Andes.
Bingham III, the explorer who rediscovered the lost Inca ruins of Machu Picchu.
The son and grandson of New England missionaries in the Pacific, Hiram Bingham was raised to carry on the family
www.ifip.com /Inca-Art_store.htm   (1299 words)

  
 ACAP - The American and Canadian Association of Peru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He was supposed to follow the footsteps of his grandfather and father as a missionary, and he himself admitted it with fervour while a student at Yale.
Hiram some years later adventured into a new field, politics, where he was elected Governor of the State of Connecticut.
Bingham found this policy immoral and, risking his career, did all in his power to undermine it.
www.acap-peru.org /newsletter/agosto_2006/odds-and-ends.htm   (678 words)

  
 HIRAM BINGHAM IV, WWII HOLOCAUST HERO, BY ROBERT KIM BINGHAM, ESQ., SON OF HIRAM BINGHAM IV
Bingham responded in his own humane and righteous way for the good of our nation perhaps at a time when his superiors were giving orders that went against that good land we should be,'' she said.
Hiram Bingham IV was a courageous American hero who deserves the tremendous honor of a postage stamp.
Hiram Bingham is now dead, but not long ago I was in touch with his son [Kim], who informed me that the State of Israel had recognized in a ceremony the help that Hiram Bingham had given to many Jewish intellectuals and artists trapped in France in 1940.
pages.cthome.net /WWIIHERO   (13761 words)

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