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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Park Mungo
		The first Europeans to enter the area were the Scottish surgeon and explorer Mungo Park and the German explorers Heinrich Barth and Eduard Vogel.
		Park, Mungo (1771-1806), British explorer, born in Foulshiels, Selkirk, Scotland.
		Mungo National Park, remote area in New South Wales, Australia.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Park_Mungo.html (104 words)

	Scottish Borders Heritage: Mungo Park Statue, Selkirk
		Statue, erected in the memory of the explorer, Mungo Park.
		Mungo Park (1771-1806) was born at Foulshiels, (6kms/ 4 miles) from Selkirk.
		Mungo became famous as an explorer of Africa, and in particular of the River Niger.
	www.scottishbordersheritage.co.uk /heritage/lastdetails.jsp?id=121 (119 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Park Mungo
		The first Europeans to enter the area were the Scottish surgeon and explorer Mungo Park and the German explorers Heinrich Barth and Eduard Vogel.
		Park, Mungo (1771-1806), British explorer, born in Foulshiels, Selkirk, Scotland.
		Mungo National Park, remote area in New South Wales, Australia.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Park_Mungo.html (104 words)

	Famous Explorers of Africa
		Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer who led one of the first expeditions to investigate the course of the Niger river in Western Africa.
		Mungo Park was a 23 year-old scottish surgeon surgeon who had just returned from a journey to Sumatra on a ship of the East India Company.
		Johann Rebmann was a German missionary, who was not like Mungo Park or Rene Callie.
	www.studyworld.com /famous_explorers_of_africa.htm (935 words)

	Mungo Park
		A beautifully sculpted statue of the explorer Mungo Park by Thomas Clapperton adorns one end of the High Street in Selkirk, and one of his friend, Sir Walter Scott adorns the other.
		Mungo Park was born at Foulshiels, near Selkirk, one of 14 children.
		Park was a totally unpretentious individual much admired by Sir Walter Scott.
	www.scotcolour.com /castles/mungopark.htm (108 words)

	USA Today: Microsoft pulls plug on Mungo Park@ HighBeam Research
		Microsoft's Mungo Park, a travel Web site named after an 18th century explorer who vanished while navigating Africa's Niger River, has met a similar fate in the treacherous currents of cyberspace.
		Mungo Park's demise reflects a growing emphasis on transaction-based travel Web sites rather than on content-based sites that earn...
		Microsoft officials say they'll divert resources from the failed enterprise to the company's more promising -- though still not profitable -- on-line booking service, Expedia.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:4819423&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (174 words)

	Mungo Park, Explorer
		Despite his attempts to settle in the Borders, he set off once more in 1805 for Africa on a fateful trip whose participants were decimated by malaria and native attacks; neither Park nor his journals were ever found again.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /park.htm (72 words)

	MUNGO PARK - AUTOGRAPH RECEIPT SIGNED
		Anderson." Scottish surgeon and explorer Mungo Park (1771-1806) went to Africa in 1795 to explore the Niger River.
		Park reached the town of Sansanding, where he planned to build boats to journey down the Niger, on September 27.
		Park was captured by a local chief but escaped and returned to Scotland.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/8_2001/explorers/MUNGO_PARK.htm (347 words)

	Mungo Park Statue, Selkirk, Scotland
		Description: This monument remembers the life and works of Mungo Park, the doctor and explorer who was born in 1771 at Foulshiels, 4 miles from Selkirk.
		Galashiels Old Graveyard has the memorial stone to Mungo Park.
		This intricate sculpted column was erected in 1859, outside what were at the time the Municipal Buildings, and had been the surgeon’s house where he did his apprentice training.
	www.discovertheborders.co.uk /places/165.html (111 words)

	RE: [Leica] RE:Mungo Park
		Mungo Park (the online adventure mag), was named after the intrepid explorer.
		Keeping on topic, if Mungo Park had better equipment, he wouldn't have been lost on his expedition.
		Anyway, Mungo was a great project that should have been given more of a chance to succeed than it had.
	www.leica-users.org /v04/msg02905.html (204 words)

	Wired News: Mungo Park Dies, Again
		Mungo Park - named after a Scottish explorer who died on a trip up the River Niger in 1806 - featured a series of expeditions to exotic locations with frequent and sometimes live audio and video updates on the Internet.
		03:09 PM Dec. 11, 1997 PT In its latest move toward transaction-focused services on the Web, Microsoft has announced that it will shut down its adventure site, Mungo Park, and focus more resources on its online travel agency, Expedia.
		The site covered adventurist Richard Bangs' raft descent of Ethiopia's Tekeze River and has published reports from astronauts aboard the Mir space station.
	www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,9095,00.html (437 words)

	Mungo Park
		The scientific name has been given in Mr Mungo PARK's honour.
		WHAT IS How Sheabutter was discovered by M. Mungo PARK
		Extracts from the book TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA by M. Mungo PARK, Edinburgh 1797.
	www.sheabutter.com /USSheaolein/Mungo.htm (337 words)

	Anecdote - Mungo Park - Mungo Park?
		Park, Mungo (1771-1806) Scottish explorer of Africa [noted for his African expeditions (the first of which he chronicled in Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1799), and the second of which led to his death by drowning during an attack by natives)]
		While exploring a particularly wild region of Africa, Mungo Park happened upon a gibbet.
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	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=3777 (149 words)

	Mungo Park -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1795 Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, traveled overland from the Gambia region and reached the Niger near Ségou, where in July 1796 he established that the river flowed eastward.
		A young Scottish surgeon, Mungo Park, was asked to explore it by the African Association of...
		Educated as a surgeon at the University of Edinburgh, Park was appointed a medical officer in 1792 on a vessel engaged in the East Indies trade.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9058497?tocId=9058497 (723 words)

	mungo park - OmniMedicalSearch.com - mungo park
		Physicians as explorers: Mungo Park, the doctor on the Niger.Can Med Assoc J. 1977 Sep 17;117(6):695-7.
		Scottish physician as African explorer.-- Mungo Park (1771-1806).JAMA.
		Human health effects associated with acute and chronic exposures to air pollution are well documented.
	www.omnimedicalsearch.com /query.php?pge=mungo+park (723 words)

	Parkes
		Mungo Park - Park, Mungo, 1771–1806, British explorer in Africa, b.
		Park Range - Park Range, part of the Rocky Mts., central Colo. and S Wyo., extending N from the Colorado River.
		Park Chung Hee - Park Chung Hee, 1917–79, president (1963–79) of the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0837671.html (723 words)

	Mungo Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mungo Park (September 10, 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of the African continent.
		He was born in Selkirkshire, Scotland, at Foulshiels on the Yarrow--the farm which his father rented from the Duke of Buccleuch.
		In 1827 his second son, Thomas, landed on the Guinea coast, intending to make his way to Bussa, where he thought his father might be detained a prisoner, but after penetrating some little distance inland he died of fever.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mungo_Park (1379 words)

	AllRefer.com - Mungo Park (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		Mungo Park 1771–1806, British explorer in Africa, b.
		He was sent (1805) by the government to trace the Niger to its mouth, but at Bussa he and his party were attacked in their canoes and Park was drowned.
		After serving as a surgeon with the East India Company, he was employed by the African Association to explore the course of the Niger River.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Park-Mun.html (224 words)

	AllRefer.com - Niger, river, Africa, Africa (African Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		The course of the Niger long puzzled European geographers; only from 1795 to 1797 did Mungo Park, the Scots explorer, correctly establish the eastern flow of the upper Niger, and it was not until 1830 that Richard and John Lander, English explorers, found that the river emptied into the Gulf of Guinea.
		Major towns in the delta are Port Harcourt and Bonny.
		The water level of the Niger has been substantially lowered as a result of the long-term W African drought in the late 1960s, 70s and 80s.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NigerR.html (453 words)

	Dictionary park
		, Mungo Park -- Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806)
		, parking area -- a lot where cars are parked
		-- place temporarily; "park the car in the yard"; "park the children with the in-laws"; "park your bag in this locker"
	www.dictionarydefinition.net /park.html (453 words)

	Mungo Park -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1795 Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, traveled overland from the Gambia region and reached the Niger near Ségou, where in July 1796 he established that the river flowed eastward.
		Educated as a surgeon at the University of Edinburgh, Park was appointed a medical officer in 1792 on a vessel engaged in the East Indies trade.
		The existence of a great river in the interior of West Africa was known to the Greeks, but in which direction it flowed and whether it found an outlet in the Sénégal, the Gambia, the Congo, or even the Nile were in dispute.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9058497?&query=mungo (723 words)

	Mungo Park
		While Park was still missing and unheard of, the Africa Association had been busy, recruiting yet another young explorer.
		Park and his party responded in kind and gained a reputation as "Tanakast" or wild beasts, a tale retold for decades by the natives of the area.
		The latter said that Park had realized that he was in unfriendly and potentially hostile territory and had elected to make a run for it, staying in the middle of the river on the armed boat for however long it might take them.
	www.redlandsfortnightly.org /mungo.htm (8196 words)

	Wonders of the African World - Episodes - Road to Timbuktu
		Explorers such as the Scotsman Mungo Park and the Frenchman Réné Caillé sought to open new markets for European commerce and to broaden geographic knowledge.
		The substance behind the ancient myths of Mali, which enthralled 19th century explorers, is beginning to become clear, and the future promises to bring ever more of West Africa's cultural heritage to light.
		Through the media and tourism Americans and Europeans are beginning to learn of such surprising things as the one thousand year old city of Djenné and its Sudanic architectural style (see Great Mosque of Djenne), the ancient "University of Timbuktu," (see Sankore Mosque) and the even more ancient accomplishments of the peoples of Mali.
	www.pbs.org /wonders/Episodes/Epi5/roadto_2.htm (774 words)

	Infoplease Search: newbury park
		(Encyclopedia) Park, Mungo, 1771–1806, British explorer in Africa, b.
		(Almanac - People) Rosa Parks Age: 92 a black seamstress who in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 was arrested for refusing...
		(Encyclopedia) Park Range, part of the Rocky Mts., central Colo. and S Wyo., extending N from the Colorado River.
	www.infoplease.com /search.php3?query=newbury+park&in=all (227 words)

	Infoplease Search: newbury park
		(Encyclopedia) Park, Mungo, 1771–1806, British explorer in Africa, b.
		(Encyclopedia) Park Range, part of the Rocky Mts., central Colo. and S Wyo., extending N from the Colorado River.
		(Almanac - People) Tongsun Park, South Korean businessman, was indicted in April and charged with making as much as $2...
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	Famous Scots
		Park, Mungo (1771 - 1806) Explorer, born at Foulshiels on the Yarrow, Scotland.
		So Lister initiated a top-priority scrub process where by all instruments, dressings, equipment, and personnel involved in the hospital were subject to lavish scrubbings with a carbolic acid solution.
		He lead a national strike in 1897-8 that established the principle of collective bargaining.
	www.gulftel.com /ryoung/scot.htm (8284 words)

	Infoplease Search: vinita park
		(Encyclopedia) Park, Mungo, 1771–1806, British explorer in Africa, b.
		(Almanac - People) Rosa Parks Age: 92 a black seamstress who in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 was arrested for refusing...
		(Encyclopedia) Park Range, part of the Rocky Mts., central Colo. and S Wyo., extending N from the Colorado River.
	www.infoplease.com /search.php3?query=Vinita+Park&in=all (249 words)

	Infoplease Search: alton park
		(Encyclopedia) Park, Mungo, 1771–1806, British explorer in Africa, b.
		(Almanac - People) Rosa Parks Age: 92 a black seamstress who in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 was arrested for refusing...
		(Almanac - People) Tongsun Park, South Korean businessman, was indicted in April and charged with making as much as $2...
	www.infoplease.com /search.php3?query=Alton+Park&in=all (236 words)

	Senegal - Chasing the Lizard’s Tail
		Only in 1796 was the riddle of the rivers finally unravelled, when the indefatigable Scottish explorer Mungo Park reached the Niger and correctly reported its eastward course, thereby proving conclusively that it could not possibly also be the Senegal or the Gambia.
		To European minds, the greatest of them all was that of the fabulous Malian city of Timbuctoo which lured, like moths to the flame of a candle, so many explorers to their doom.
		According to an apocryphal Wolof tale, it was an anonymous - but above all witness - explorer in the mould of Stanley who, on reaching the bank of the river, pointed across it and asked some nearby fishermen what it was called.
	www.bluegecko.org /lizard/lizard11.htm (9135 words)

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