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  Matthew Patay
The banknote is brown and brown-orange on multi-colored underprint.
Sir Edmund is the only living New Zealander to appear on a banknote.
Sir Edmund is the first foreign national to receive such an honour from the Nepalese.
www.banknoteworld.com /NoteofMonth/matthew_patayDecember2005NewZealand.htm   (1529 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary 1919–, New Zealand mountain climber and explorer.
He went on many mountain-climbing expeditions before 1953, when he and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal were the first people to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
HILLARY, SIR EDMUND PERCIVAL [Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival] 1919-, New Zealand mountain climber and explorer.
His works include High Adventure (1955), the story of his Everest climb, and No Latitude for Error (1961), which recounts the South Pole expedition.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival" at HighBeam.
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 JOSEPH HENRY SHORTHOUSE - LoveToKnow Article on JOSEPH HENRY SHORTHOUSE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
It became the most discussed book of the day, and its author was suddenly famous.
Besides John Inglesant (1881), Shorthouse published The Little Schoolmaster Mark (1883), Sir Percival (1886), The Countess Eve and A Teacher of the Violin (1888), and Blanche, Lady Falaise (1891); but none of these has been so popular as his first novel.
He will always remain known to fame as " the author of John Inglesant." Shorthouse was originally a Quaker, but the appeal of the Anglican Church was insistent with him, and he was baptized into its body before the appearance of his story.
www.1911ency.org /S/SH/SHORTHOUSE_JOSEPH_HENRY.htm   (359 words)

  
 Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
He went on many mountain-climbing expeditions before 1953, when he and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal were the first people to reach the summit of Mt.
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