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  John Hanning Speke - LoveToKnow 1911
JOHN HANNING SPEKE (1827-1864), English explorer, discoverer of the source of the Nile, was born on the 4th of May 1827 at Jordans near Ilminster, Somersetshire.
Following the western shores of the lake Speke crossed the Kagera on the 16th of January 1862, and arrived at the capital of Uganda on the 19th of February following.
It was arranged that Speke should meet Burton at the meeting of the geographical section of the British Association at Bath on the 16th of September and publicly debate the question of the Nile source.
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 BBC - History - John Hanning Speke (1827 - 1864)
John Hanning Speke was born on 4 May 1827 in Bideford in Devon.
Speke's theory that the lake was the source of Nile was rejected by Burton - beginning a bitter public dispute between the two men.
On his return to England, Speke was greeted with enthusiasm and published 'Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile' (1863).
www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/speke_john_hanning.shtml   (397 words)

  
  John Hanning Speke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Hanning Speke (May 4, 1827 September 15, 1864) was an officer in the British Indian army, who made three voyages of exploration to Africa.
Burton was embittered, because Speke declared Lake Victoria to be the Nile's source, whereas Burton believed Lake Tanganyika to be so, and because Speke had by then already been chosen to lead an expedition to further clarify the issue.
Speke's voyage did not resolve the issue, Burton claimed that because Speke had not followed the Nile from the place it flowed out of Lake Victoria to Gondokoro, he could not be sure they were the same river.
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 JOHN HANNING SPEKE
Speke returned on 29.3.58 after a gruelling trip on the lake and in poor physical condition, the side of his face distorted by a tumour which made him almost deaf and made chewing impossible.
Speke and Grant returned to England in the summer of 1863, certain that they had settled the question of the source of the Nile, and on 22.6.63 Speke delivered his narrative at a public meeting of the Royal Geographical Society.
Petherick, John, Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa, with explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the regions of the equator.
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 John Hanning Speke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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Hanning and Kahl GmbH and Co KG Hersteller von Brems-, Weichen- und Signalsystemen für Bahnen.
Speke Resort And Country Lodge Complex on the shores of Lake Victoria.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Speke John Hanning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In 1858 John Hanning Speke was the first European to visit the area.
The first Europeans to visit Uganda were the British explorers John Hanning Speke and James Grant, when they were searching for the source of the...
The first European to see the lake was British explorer John Hanning Speke in 1858, while on an expedition attempting to discover the source of the...
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 Speke's Journal, reviewed by Sean Redmond
Speke had planned to go shooting in the Caucasus, but he and Burton set out in June 1857 to investigate the truth about the Tanganyika, a reportedly huge lake in central Africa and perhaps the long-sought source of the Nile.
Because Speke wants to show his influence on the personalities around him, we get much better pictures of his fellow travelers and of the people he meets than in the writings of the misanthropic Burton.
Speke's account of their "paganism" is equally careless, and what religion he could discern is taken only as evidence of their fall from grace.
www.unc.edu /~ottotwo/Spekereview.html   (2145 words)

  
 Speke, John Hanning on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Together they discovered (1858) Lake Tanganyika; then Speke continued alone and discovered Lake Victoria, which he believed to be a source of the Nile.
He wrote Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863).
John Hanning Speke (1827-64): Richard Burton's exploring companion, John Speke was the first European to reach Lake Victoria, which he correctly identified as a source of the Nile.(Late Great Geographers #54)(Biography)
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 Geometry.Net - Book_Author: Speke John Hanning
Speke chose James Augustus Grant, a friend from his army days, as his companion, while John Petherick, the British consul in Khartoum, was ordered to send ships upstream the Nile to Gondokoro to aid the explorers in their voyage back home.
John Hanning Speke (18271864) was an officer in the BritishIndian army, who made three voyages of exploration to Africa.
John Hanning Speke (18271864) was a British explorer most famousandinfamousfor his lifelong quest to find the source of the Nile.
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 Bug in the Ear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It was the mid-1800s and John Hanning Speke sat in his tent waiting for a violent storm to end.
John tried brushing them off his clothes and bedding but as soon as he flicked one, another one replaced it.
John's facial glands from the ear to the shoulder became deformed.
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 John Hanning Speke - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
John Hanning Speke (May 4 1827-September 15 1864) was an officer in the British Indian army, who made three voyages of exploration to Africa.
He also created the Hamitic hypothesis, a major cause of the Rwandan genocide.
The complete text of The Discovery Of The Source Of The Nile by John Hanning Speke.
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 John Hanning Speke
In 1856 the British Royal Geographical Society commissioned Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke to look for the sources of the Nile; during their expeditions they found Lake Ukerewe in 1858 which was renamed, after the Queen, Victoria Nyanza and continuing westwards via Tabora they reached Ujiji and found Lake Tanganyika.
This rewriting drastically changed the original texts of the explorer John Hanning Speke's Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, according to a comparison of the drafts.
Speke's early chapters were "written in such an abominable, childish, unintelligible way that it is impossible to say what anybody could make of them", John Blackwood said.
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 John Hanning Speke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
John Hanning Speke (May 4 1827 - September 15 1864) was an officer in the British army who made three voyages of exploration Africa.
Speke's voyage did not resolve the issue claimed that because Speke had not followed Nile from the place it flowed out Lake Victoria to Gondokoro he could not sure they were the same river.
A was planned between the two on September 16 1864 but Speke died just one day of a hunting accident - although Burton some others believed it might actually have suicide.
www.freeglossary.com /John_Hanning_Speke   (365 words)

  
 Discoverers Web: Speke and Grant
John Hanning Speke, who had already fought in the British army in India, first became an explorer in 1854, when he joined Richard Burton on a voyage of exploration to Somaliland and eastern Ethiopia.
When Speke arrived at the king's palace in the province of Bandawarogo, he wanted to immediately visit the king, but was told that he could not.
Speke noticed that the king governed with great cruelty - almost every day one or more of his concubines was executed, often for very minor offences.
www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/speke2.html   (841 words)

  
 Speke, John Hanning --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon John Boyd Dunlop was born in Dreghorn, near Irvine.
English astronomer John Frederick William Herschel was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, on March 7, 1792.
John Herschel discovered 525 star clusters and nebulae not recorded by his father, and he made the first telescopic survey of the southern heavens.
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 John Hanning Speke — Infoplease.com
Together they discovered (1858) Lake Tanganyika; then Speke continued alone and discovered Lake Victoria, which he believed to be a source of the Nile.
John Hanning Speke (1827-64): Richard Burton's exploring companion, John Speke was the first European to reach Lake Victoria, which......
The sad story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, was John Hanning Speke a cad?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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 SPEKE, JOHN HANNING (1827-1864) - Online Information article about SPEKE, JOHN HANNING (1827-1864)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Here they learnt from an Arab trader that further inland were three great lakes—and Speke leapt to the conclusion that the most northerly of the three would prove to be the source of the Nile.
But as Speke had not been able to follow the Nile the whole way from the Victoria Nyanza to Gondokoro, and as the part played in the Nile regime by the Albert Nyanza was then unknown, Burton and others remained unconvinced, and Speke's conclusions were criticized in The Nile See also:
BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SOU_STE/SPEKE_JOHN_HANNING_1827_1864_.html   (1378 words)

  
 The Discover of the Source of the Nile By John Hanning Speke - Editor's Notes
John Hanning Speke was a man of thirty-six, when his Nile Journal appeared.
Speke arrived back in England in the spring of 1859, Burton being left behind on account of his illness.
Speke telegraphed early in 1863, that the Nile source was traced.
www.touregypt.net /source1.htm   (390 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: John Hanning Speke
The Hamitic hypothesis is a racialist hypothesis created by John Hanning Speke that taught that the Tutsi people (Hamites) were superior to the Hutus (Bantus).
The skulls of victims show gashes and signs of violence The Rwandan genocide was the slaughter of roughly one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus by a group of Hutu extremists known as Interahamwe during a timespan of 100 days in 1994.
September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years).
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 Speke, John Hanning - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Speke, John Hanning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He joined British traveller Richard Burton on an African expedition in which they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1858; Speke became the first European to see Lake Victoria.
His claim that it was the source of the Nile was disputed by Burton, even after Speke and James Grant made a second confirming expedition 1860–63.
Speke accidentally shot himself, in England, the day before he was due to debate the matter publicly with Burton.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Speke,%20John%20Hanning   (135 words)

  
 JOHN HANNING SPEKE FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
John Hanning Speke (May_4 1827 – September_15 1864) was an officer in the British Indian army, who made three voyages of exploration to Africa.
They travelled on the west side around Lake Victoria without actually seeing much of it, but on the north side of the lake, Speke found the Nile flowing out of it and discovered the Rippon_Falls.
A debate was planned between the two on September_16, 1864, but Speke died just one day before, of a hunting accident - although Burton and some others believed it might actually have been suicide.
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 Menu page for John Hanning SPEKE
John Hanning SPEKE was a Victorian Exlporer who discovered the source of the Nile.
To commemorate Speke’s life, or more accurately his death, a memorial was erected at the very spot where he died.
Box Parish Council has been given a number of original documents relating to Speke, particularly drawings of the memorial, presumably for the masons to use in its construction.
www.boxparish.org.uk /people/speke/menu.htm   (168 words)

  
 Past Inhabitants of Ilminster - About - Residents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Anne Speke lived at Dillington House which she inherited in 1753.
John Hanning Speke was born in Ilminster in 1827.
John Edward Tayor was born in Ilminster on 11 September 1791 and was the son of the Unitarian Minister at what is now The Meeting House.
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 JOHN HANNING SPEKE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Speke entdeckte 1858 mit Richard Francis Burton den Tanganjikasee und ebenfalls 1858 den Victoriasee, welchen er als Quellsee des Nils identifizierte.
Speke ist somit als der Entdecker der Nilquellen anzusehen.
Speke, John Hanning (http://susi.e-technik.uni-ulm.de:8080/meyers/servlet/showSeite?SeiteNr=0117andBandNr=15andtextmode=true), in: Meyers Konversationslexikon, 4.
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 John Hanning Speke Biography / Biography of John Hanning Speke Main Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
An English explorer of Africa, John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) solved the riddle of the Nile River by discovering its source during the course of an epic journey to and through the Great Lakes region of eastern Africa.
John Speke was born at Jordans, Somersetshire, on May 4, 1827.
Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
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 John Hanning Speke - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
John Hanning Speke (nacido el 4 de mayo de 1827 y muerto el 15 de septiembre de 1864) fue un oficial del ejército británico indio quien hizo tres viajes entre 1857 y 1858 a África con Richard Francis Burton en busca de las fuentes del río Nilo, señalando al lago Victoria como origen.
La discusión con Burton se originó a raíz de que Burton creía que nacía (El Nilo) en otro lago, pero Speke le dijo que no podía ser porque ese lago estaba por debajo del nivel más bajo del río y que el agua no podría subir.
Commons alberga contenido multimedia sobre John Hanning Speke.
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 John Hanning Speke History Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Speke served in the army in India before setting out with Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) to explore the African interior.
Together they discovered Lake Tanganyika and then, traveling alone, Speke discovered Lake Victoria, which he recognized as the source of the Nile.
When, upon his return to England, his claim about the Nile's source was doubted, Speke made another trip to confirm his discovery, only to have his discovery questioned again.
www.bookrags.com /history/sciencehistory/john-hanning-speke-scit-051   (147 words)

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