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- Nicholas J. Matzke is Public Information Project Director at the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), the leading American...
- male, deceased (1620)
- Firishta or Ferishta (c. 1560-c. 1620), given name "Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah" was a Persian historian. Firishta was born at Astrabad, on the...
- male
- Edward Relph is a prominent Canadian geographer, mostly famous for his groundbreaking study of 'place', "Place and Placelessness", but also for his...
- male, 64 years old
- Since 1970 Sam Abell has been a fixture at National Geographic, having shot dozens of stories, authored award-winning books, and shown his work...
- male
- Hippalus was a Greek navigator who probably lived in the 1st century BCE. He is sometimes conjectured to have been the captain of the Greek...
- male, deceased (1842)
- Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, (August 7 1779-August 18 1842) was a French navigator.
- male, deceased (1949)
- Erich von Drygalski or Erich Dagobert von Drygalski was a German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist, born in Königsberg, East Prussia. B...
- male
- Colocolo was a Mapuche leader ("cacique lonco"). He held the position of "Toqui de la Paz" ("Peace Chief") but took over strategic duties when...
- male, 45 years old
- Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is a member of the Islamic Court Union (ICU), which controlled Somalia's capital of Mogadishu and much of south and...
- male, deceased (1782)
- Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782), perhaps the greatest geographical author of the 18th century, was born at Paris on the 11th of...
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