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CALENDARS

1,000 Places to See Before You Die Calendars
Travel Calendar

Star Trek - Ships of the Line Calendars
Star Trek - Ships of the Line Calendar

Destinations
Destinations Calendar




BOOKS ABOUT EXPLORERS

Around the World in a Hundred Years
Around the World
in a Hundred Years:
From Henry the Navigator
to Magellan


Nat'l Geographic World Atlas for Young Explorers
Nat'l Geographic
World Atlas
for Young Explorers


Women of Discovery
Women of Discovery:
A Celebration of
Intrepid Women Who
Explored the World


As Told at the Explorers Club
As Told at
the Explorers Club:
More than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure


Explorers South America
Explorers of
South America


Nat'l Geographic's Beyond 2000
Nat'l Geographic's
Beyond 2000
VHS



Teacher's Best - The Creative Process


Notable & Famous Explorers Posters “A...-”
for social studies teachers and home schoolers, theme decor in office.


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Harriet Chalmers Adams
Buzz Aldrin
Diego de Almagro
Francisco de Almeida

Pedro de Alvarado
Roald Amundsen
Roy Chapman Andrews
George Anson

Juan Bautista de Anza
Neil Armstrong
John James Audubon



Harriet Chalmers Adams in the Gobi Desert, Photographic Print
Harriet Chalmers Adams
in the Gobi Desert,
Photographic Print

Harriet Chalmers Adams
b. 10-22-1875; Stockton, California
d. 7-17-1937; Nice, France

Explorer, writer and photographer Harriet Chalmers Adams traveled extensively in South America, Asia, and the South Pacific. Her accounts were published in the National Geographic magazine and she lectured extensively.

Chalmers-Adams was also the only female journalist allowed to visit the trenches in World War I while she was a correspondent for Harper's Magazine.


Apollo II Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Photo Print
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin,
Photo Print

Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin
b. 1-20-1930; Glen Ridge, New Jersey

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the pilot of Apollo II, was the second man to step on the Moon, after Neil Armstrong as Michael Collins orbited in the command module, July, 1969.

“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” Buzz Aldrin


Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro Reconciled at Castille, Giclee Print
Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro Reconciled at Castille,
Giclee Print

Diego de Almagro
b. c. 1475; Almagro, Castile, Spain
d. 7-8-1538; Cuzco, Peru

Spanish conquistador Diego de Almagro, who became a rival of Francisco Pizarro, is credited as the first European discoverer of Chile.

History of How the Spaniards Arrived in Peru


Francisco de Almeida (circa 1450-1510), Portuguese Soldier and First Viceroy, Giclee Print
Francisco de Almeida Portuguese Soldier and First Viceroy, Giclee Print

Francisco de Almeida
b. c. 1450; Lisbon, Portugal
d. 3-1-1510; Cape of Good Hope

Francisco de Almeida, a Portuguese nobleman, soldier and explorer was appointed as the first governor and viceroy of the Portuguese State of India (Estado da Índia).

India & Portugal: Cultural Interactions


Codex Duran: Pedro de Alvarado, Companion-At-Arms of Hernando Cortes (1485-1547), Giclee Print
Codex Duran:
Pedro de Alvarado, Companion-at-Arms of Hernando Cortes,
Giclee Print

Pedro de Alvarado
b. c. 1495; Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
d. 7-4-1541; Guadalajara, New Spain

Pedro de Alvarado, a Spanish conquistador and second in command to Cortes, was known for his skill as a soldier.

His wife, Beatriz de la Cueva de Ubeda, succeeded his governorship of Guatemala after his death; she died several month later during the September 1541 eruption of the Guatemalan “de Agua” volcano.

Pedro de Alvarado, Conquistador


Amundsen and His Team at Hobart, Photographic Print
Amundsen and His Team
at Hobart, Australia,
Photographic Print

Roald Amundsen
b. 7-16-1872; Norway
d. c 6-18-1928; plane crash during an attempted rescue

Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian polar explorer, led the first successful Antarctic expedition to the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. Amundsen and a co-explorer, Oscar Adolf Wisting, may also be the first persons to be at both North and South poles.

The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912


Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews

Roy Chapman Andrews
b. 1-26-1884; Beloit, Wisconsin
d. 3-11-1960; California

Roy Chapman Andrews, explorer, adventurer and naturalist, wrote “I was born to be an explorer. . . There was never any decision to make. I couldn't do anything else and be happy.”

Andrews was the first to discover fossilized dinosaur eggs in Mongolia; he was also became the director of the American Museum of Natural History after his beginning position was a janitor in the taxidermy department.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin participated in the Gobi Desert expedition with Andrews. And Andrews is supposedly the model for the Indiana Jones character.

Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions


Baron George Anson British Naval Commander and Circumnavigator, Giclee Print
Baron George Anson
British Naval Commander
and Circumnavigator,
Giclee Print

George Anson
b. 4-23-1696; Staffordshire, England
d. 6-6-1762; Moor Park, Hertfordshire, England

George Anson circumnavigated the globe in the disastrous 1740-44 voyage when only 188 men survived from the original 1,854.

John “Foul Weather Jack” Byron was one of the survivors.


Jaun Bautista de Anza - Latinos in American History
Jaun Bautista de Anza
Latinos in American History

Juan Bautista de Anza
b. 7-6/7-1736; Fronteras, Sonora, New Spain
d. 12-19-1788; Arizpe, Mexico

Juan Bautista de Anza was the leader of the first Spanish overland expedition to the Las Californias Province of New Spain in 1769. Las Californias was previously only sighted and claimed for the Spanish Crown from the sea by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in 1542.

De Anza also named govenor of the Province of Nuevo Mexico, the present day state of New Mexico. In 1779 he led a punitive expedition against the Comanches, who had been raiding Taos, into present day Colorado, and Arizona.

De Anza was the first European to see the San Francisco Bay from land. The Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is named after him, as are numerous roads, streets, schools and buildings.


Astronaut Neil Armstrong Leaving for the Moon / LIFE Cover: July 25, 1969
Astronaut Neil Armstrong Leaving for the Moon
/ LIFE Cover:
July 25, 1969

Neil Armstrong
b. 8-5-1930; Wapakoneta, Ohio
d. 8-25-2012; Cincinnati, Ohio (complications coronary artery bypass surgery

Astronaut Neil Armstrong is best remembered as the first person to set foot on the Moon.

He began his astronaut career as a test pilot, Naval Aviator, and aerospace engineer. His first space flight was as command pilot of Gemini 8 (1966) with David Scott (completed the first docking of two spacecraft). His second and last space flight was as mission commander of Apollo 11, the first Lunar landing with Michael Collins & Buzz Aldrin of July, 1969.

Neil Armstrong quotes ~
• “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
• “That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.”
• “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis for man's desire to understand.” from the Gongressional Record of 9-16-1969


Portrait of John James Audubon, Giclee Print
John James Audubon,
Giclee Print

John James Audubon
b. 4-26-1785; Haiti
d. 1-27-1851; NY

Audubon was an ornithologist (a zoologist specializing in birds), hunter, and artist known today for his illustrations and descriptions of the birds of North America.

Audubon was an explorer and careful observer, noting “... the nature of the place — whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs — generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.”

FYI ~ Audubon's method for portraying birds in the motions of hunting and feeding involved using wires to prop the birds he first killed with fine shot.

Audubon's Birds of America


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