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	Ralph Plaisted - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ralph Plaisted made the first confirmed trek to the Geographic North Pole over the sea ice in 1968.
		Starting his trek from Nunchuk Bay, northern Greenland, on March 7, 1968, in minus 60 degree weather, Plaisted's expedition, using snowmobiles as the primary means of transportation, arrived exactly at the North Pole in a total elapsed time of 43 days, 2 hours and 30 minutes.
		Given the doubts surrounding the North pole conquest claims of Robert Peary and Frederick Cook, Ralph Plaisted's April 19, 1968 record is now part of history as the first fully confirmed successful surface conquest of the North Pole.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ralph_Plaisted (141 words)

	Bio of General Harris Merrill Plaisted
		GENERAL PLAISTED was born in Jefferson, N. November 2, 1828, the son of Deacon William and Nancy (Merrill) Plaisted.
		General Plaisted is the seventh in descent from this brave old Indian fighter.
		Plaisted died October 25, 1875, and the General married, September 27, 1881, Mabel True, daughter of Hon.
	history.rays-place.com /bios/maine/plaisted-hm.htm (776 words)

	RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Shirley's Tree and Connections
		Walter PLAISTED was born 15 AUG 1908 in West Union, Steuben, NY, and died JAN 1984 in Tenafly, Bergen, New Jersey.
		Rodney PLAISTED was born 18 DEC 1910 in Troupsburg, Steuben, NY, and died 16 JUL 1997 in Troupsburg, Steuben, NY.
		Ralph PLAISTED was born 27 MAR 1920 in Wesleyville, Erie, PA, and died 15 APR 1921 in Wesleyville, Erie, PA.
	worldconnect.rootsweb.com /cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=040738&id=I03541 (1047 words)

	MacKay Descendants 1750-2001
		Kevin Ralph Gillbanks was born on 26 October 1933 in New Plymouth, New Zealand and died in 1974 in Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand.
		Gladys Elizabeth Catherine Plaisted was born in 1917 in New Plymouth, New Zealand, died on 11 June 2001 in Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand.
		Ernest William Plaisted was born on 27 February 1920 in New Plymouth, New Zealand, died on 15 September 1987 in Whangarei, New Zealand.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /ryangenealogy/mackay.html (3596 words)

	Musée Bombardier \| Le transport et la neige
		In one such expedition, American Ralph Plaisted traveled to the North Pole in 1968: an outstanding moment in the conquest of the Arctic.
		Before departure three simple modifications were made to the vehicles: the addition of a gas reservoir on the hood, the shortening of the seat for more storage space, and the insertion of metal studs in the rubber track to increase traction on ice.
		During the Plaisted expedition, Ski-Doo* snowmobiles had to cross breaks in the ice up to 3 m (10 ft.) wide, and ice ridges reaching as much as 12 m (40 ft.) high.
	www.museebombardier.com /en/content/motoneige/letransportetlaneige.htm (677 words)

	The Plaisted Polar Expedition, 90 Degrees N by Snowmobile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ralph Plaisted was an insurance salesman from White Bear Lake, Minnesota who had some polar experience, or near-so, from hunting and fishing in the great Northwest.
		Plaisted had the finest of ham radio and other communications gear, and fuel and supplies with which to rendezvous with on the ice pack, but they found the 1967 attempt a bitter disappointment.
		According to an article in the Montreal Gazette of March 7, 1985, Plaisted was a support team member for the 1985 McGuire Polar Expedition.
	www.qsl.net /kg0yh/plaisted.htm (598 words)

	CA - California Maritime Academy - Sean Plaisted -- Campus Coordinator Profiles - Nader for President 2004 - ...
		I support Ralph Nader because I believe that the problems and imperfections of our country that are blamed on politicians by voters are in fact the fault of the voters.
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	Musée Bombardier \| Le transport et la neige
		Ralph Plaisted travaille dans les assurances à St. Paul, au Minnesota.
		Avant d’entreprendre le périple, Ralph Plaisted doit, pour obtenir un permis d’explorateur, séjourner durant 15 mois en régions éloignées afin de démontrer ses capacités.
		Lors de l’expédition Plaisted, les motoneiges Ski-Doo* ont dû franchir des crevasses d’eau de 3 m (10 pi) de largeur et des crêtes de glace atteignant jusqu’à 12 m (40 pi) de hauteur.
	www.museebombardier.com /fr/content/motoneige/letransportetlaneige.htm (820 words)

	UNC-CH CS Alumni Newsletter Issue 15
		Ralph was also a key player in the planning and design of Sitterson Hall, where we consolidated from six buildings to one in the summer of 1987.
		Ralph hopes to spend more time with his large and growing family (he has five grandchildren--three boys and two girls--with another on the way), and--for those who know him this won't come as any surprise--on the golf course.
		David Plaisted, professor, who was invited to be a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Functional and Logic Programming, which is published electronically by MIT Press.
	www.cs.unc.edu /NewsAndNotes/Issue15 (7584 words)

	LEPC Meeting Minutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Following a luncheon and introductions by those present, Paul Plaisted, of JPMA (Justice Planning and Management Associates), gave an overview of on-line training developed by his company, with the support of the Maine Chiefs of Police Association, Maine Emergency Management Agency and grant funding.
		A motion was made by Ralph Pinkham and seconded by Mike Hangge and carried to accept the minutes as written.
		Ralph Pinkham, EMA Director, reported on the Calais/St Croix exercise, the communications trailer, and the EMCOMM CERT TEAM, the upcoming QM2 exercise at the
	www.co.hancock.me.us /meetminutes.html (3599 words)

	Minnesota Historical Society \| History Topics \| Polar Exploration
		Newspaper clippings and other papers related to two snowmobile expeditions from northern Canada to the North Pole organized by Ralph Plaisted, a St. Paul insurance agent, snowmobile enthusiast, and amateur explorer.
		After an aborted attempt in 1967, Plaisted's group reached the North Pole in April 1968, the first mechanized expedition to do so and the first to arrive by sled since 1909.
		Note: Ralph Plaisted's personal papers are at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Trans-Antarctica Expedition Records.
	www.mnhs.org /library/tips/history_topics/29polar.html (765 words)

	The Walter Pederson Expedition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This venture originated with the successful Plaisted North Polar Expedition, which, after an abortive try in 1967, successfully traveled from Ward Hunt Island to the North Pole in the spring of 1968 using Ski-Doo Olympic model 300 snowmobiles.
		The group consisted of Ralph Plaisted, Walter Pederson, Jean Luc Bombardier (nephew of Joseph-Armand Bombardier, the developer of the modern snowmobile), and Jerry Pitzel (Wes Thorn's description of this expedition).
		After Plaisted withdrew, the group was to be co-led by Bombardier along with Norman Vaughan, the Byrd expedition veteran.
	www.southpolestation.com /trivia/igy2/conrad/pederson.html (537 words)

	Elk River Star News
		Known as the Plaisted Polar Expeditions, this team, accompanied by budding correspondent Charles Kuralt, battled land and climate to achieve this remarkable feat.
		Pederson, a mechanical engineer for the expeditions, will present the history and exhibit expeditions items at a one-time program to be held at 7 p.m.
		The Plaisted Polar Expeditions were named after businessman Ralph Plaisted, an insurance man in Duluth.
	www.erstarnews.com /2003/january/21county.html (470 words)

	Army
		Ralph Omestead Ives: born in New York City, a 22-year old attorney and resident of Great Barrington, MA; Captain, United States Army, Company A, 10th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry; was commissioned on June 21, 1861; captured at Warrenton, Virginia, on September 3, 1863, and was confined to Salisbury Military Prison, North Carolina, on September 15, 1863.
		Will your authorities make a special exchange of Captain Ralph Omestead Ives, Tenth Massachusetts Regiment, captured at Warrenton, Va., September 3, 1863, and now a prisoner at Salisbury, N.C. This government is willing to give any Confederate officer of equal rank in exchange for Captain Ives.
		Ralph O. Ives, Tenth Massachusetts Volunteers, is held a prisoner by your authorities?
	www.andersonvillediary.com /army.htm (2391 words)

	TX - North West Vista Community College - Fred Casillas -- Campus Coordinator Profiles - Nader for President 2004 - ...
		Well, I can say that's why I support Ralph Nader is because I have never heard activist/politician who has more benevolent and a servant leader to society than Ralph Nader.
		I think Ralph Nader is very conservative in his beliefs against corporations because I believe the same because I'm Catholic.
		I used to be Republican myself, but Ralph Nader truly stuck out to me because I felt politically confused because I didn't know the moral difference between Democrats and Republicans.
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	Thomas D. Davies Rear Admiral, USN (ret)
		Other than Peary’s own description we cannot know what ice conditions were at the time, but we do know that Steger reported a smoothing of the ice and the presence of a frozen north-south lead that provided an improved surface for sledge travel in the near vicinity of the Pole.
		Ralph Plaisted’s colleague, Col. Gerry Pitzl, navigator on their successful snowmobile assault in 1968, similarly reported that for the last two weeks before reaching the Pole travel was “practically unrestricted...In many cases the lead direction was north, affording us the luxury of effortless travel.”
		Measurements of the ocean depth (soundings) taken by Peary on the trek from Cape Columbia to the Pole contribute significantly to the much-debated question of where his track lay.
	www.pearyhenson.org /northPole1909/daviesmain5.htm (709 words)

	1990 ISHOF Inductees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		RALPH PLAISTED, Explorer/Adventurer, saw his first snowmobile in 1964 and bought the "new contraption" on sight.
		Thus began an amazing chapter in the early use of snowmobiles in the polar regions of the far north.
		Ralph Plaisted's April 19, 1968 record is now part of history as the first confirmed successful surface conquest of the North Pole.
	www.ishof.com /1990.shtml (725 words)

	Genealogy - pafn01 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1920 census, listed with father Ralph and mother Violet C. Ruth was 1 year and 8 months old (census taken in Jan., 1920).
		He was born April 24, 1851 at Oill City, Pa., At an early age he moved with his parents to Cortland County, NY and later when a young man came to the place then known as Mallory's Corners, now Highup, with his parents.
		He was very gentle and was the one assigned to Grandma Plaisted for her own use.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~mabgenealogy/pafn01.htm (2262 words)

	Infobase Library
		RN 2 Linda Elaine (Vanatter Plaisted Dow) 1933 -
		RN 78 Ralph Leonard Vanatter 1898 - 1964
		RN 9 Ralph Davis Plaisted 1902 - 1999
	www.waynedow.net /infobase_library.htm (534 words)

	Ralph Plaisted Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography @ Local Color Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	UT - Utah State University - Drake Plaizier -- Campus Coordinator Profiles - Nader for President 2004 - ...
		In studying Ralph’s work, reading his biography, and speaking with Ralph himself, I feel that I have really gotten to know one of the most caring, devoted, honorable, compassionate, and enlightened men of our times.
		This election Ralph is faced with considerable repressive forces (more than usual) which claim that Ralph is a “spoiler” and that it is an emergency to get Bush out of the White House.
		To the people who claim this I have to say “The real emergency is to empower a government which is representative of the people and not corporations.
	www.votenader.org /sfn/index.php?cid=70 (999 words)

	Misc. Steuben County, NY Obituaries
		Merton T. Plaisted, age 73 of Wayne, NY passed away July 21, 2002 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.
		Merton was born in Wayne, NY on June 28, 1929, the son of Fredrick and Grace Plaisted.
		Merton was also survived by a sister, Eleanor (Plaisted) Swarthout of Gang Mills, NY and Jean (Plaisted) Palmer of Syracuse, NY.
	www.obitcentral.com /obitsearch/obits/ny/ny-steuben49.htm (8427 words)

	My Family
		He was married to Mary L. on SEP 30 1960 in Great Bend, Jefferson Co., NY.
		David TAYLOR was born on APR 8 1774 in Hebron, Tolland Co., CT. Parents: David TAYLOR and Rosanna GILBERT.
		Children were: Grace H. Harris Plaisted TAYLOR Jr.
	www.stevemix.esmartweb.com /d146.htm (1598 words)

	CADE 1988 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jean H. Gallier, Paliath Narendran, David A. Plaisted, Stan Raatz, Wayne Snyder : Finding Canonical Rewriting Systems Equivalent to a Finite Set of Ground Equations in Polynomial Time.
		Ralph Butler, Rasiah Loganantharaj, Robert Olsen : Notes on Prolog Program Transformations, Prolog Style, and Efficient Compilation to The Warren Abstract Machine.
		Ralph Butler, Nicholas T. Karonis : Exploitation of Parallelism in Prototypical Deduction Problems.
	www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/conf/cade/cade88.html (940 words)

	Minnesota Historical Society \| History Topics \| Snowmobiles
		Developed by David Johnson, Alan and Edgar Heteen, partners in a farm equipment business, snowmobiles caught on so well that, within a few years, the developers re-directed their efforts from making farm equipment to the manufacture of Polaris snowmobiles.
		In April, 1968, Ralph Plaisted of St. Paul, Minnesota, made history when he and his group reached the North Pole on Bombardier Ski-Doo snowmobiles, the first mechanized expedition to do so.
		Note: Ralph Plaisted's papers are at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Winter Carnival Association Records.
	www.mnhs.org /library/tips/history_topics/11snowmobiles.html (552 words)

	Unbelievable Journeys
		Ralph Plaisted, however, was an insurance salesman from Whitebear Lake, Minnesota, who, along with Walt Pederson, Jean Luc Bombardier and Jerry Pitzl, reached the North Pole by snowmobile on April 20th, 1968.
		Plaisted had received permission from the Canadian government the previous year to make the attempt, and sponsorship for the equipment.
		Plaisted's group encountered obstacles very much like those described by Hetteen some eight years earlier.
	www.snowridermag.com /2003/4la.html (1475 words)

	TENTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was married to Annie Mabel Parsons (daughter of Joseph Edward Parsons and Almeda M. Plaisted) on 23 Apr 1888 in Somerville, Middlesex, MA.
		Annie Mabel Parsons was born about 3 Jul 1868 in Milford, Penobscot, ME. Not sure of birth year.
		Ralph Aubrey Woods was born on 2 Jul 1899.
	personalpages.tdstelme.net /~n1uly/gen/farwell/d159.htm (120 words)

	Arctic Odyssey Members
		On April 20, 1068, Ralph Plaisted received a radio message from an Air Force weather plane verifying his position, "Everywhere from where you are now is south!" Plaisted and three companions were the first people to reach the North Pole by snowmobile, the first attempt ever by motorized vehicle.
		A native of Minnesota, Plaisted wanted to test the new snowmachines which were becoming popular with winter sportsmen.
		A person drawn to big ideas, Plaisted wanted to be the first to reach the Pole by crossing the frozen ice of the Arctic Ocean since Admiral Robert E. Peary in 1909.
	arctic.richardolsenius.com /members (10352 words)

	Breaking the Ice: Page 11 \| Robb Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If nothing less than military accuracy will suffice, then Ralph Plaisted is the winner.
		A U.S. Air Force plane flying over the Minnesotan and his team confirmed their arrival at 90º N on April 19, 1968.
		Some purists deride the accomplishment, however, because Plaisted relied on snowmobiles rather than dogsleds or man power.
	www.robbreport.com /Articles/Journeys/Breaking-the-Ice-11.asp (383 words)

	SKIRVIN FAMILY
		Most of this information was given to me by Dorothy Skirvin Plaisted.
		+ELLWOOD "A" PLAISTED b: October 15, 1938 in CEDAR CITY IRON CO. UTAH m: March 28, 1959 in JACKSONVILLE DUVAL CO. FLORIDS Father: ELLSWORTH A. PLAISTED Mother: GWEN JONES.....................
		11 JERED RALPH JEFFERS b: December 31, 1976..................
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Prairie/3985/Skirvin.html (13663 words)

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