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Buzz Aldrin. Apollo 11. Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Aldrin, photographed July 20, 1969, during the first manned mission to the Moon's surface. Reflected in Aldrin's faceplate is the Lunar Module and astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took the picture.
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Paleogeography and paleoceanography of Early Triassic time. The present-day coastlines and tectonic boundaries of the configured continents are shown at the lower right. Continents, continental drift, plate tectonics, Pangea, Laurussia, Gondwana.
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Currency. Money. Cash. Dollars. Bills. Pile of ten, twenty, fifty, and hundred dollar bills.
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Born April 30, 1770 • London • England
Died February 10, 1857 (aged 86) • Canada
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Aaron Arrowsmith, engraving by T.A. Dean after a portrait by H.W. Pickersgill
Aaron Arrowsmith
British geographer and cartographer
Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
George Vancouver
George Vancouver
British explorer
Rennell, detail from a pencil sketch by G. Dance, 1794; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Rennell
British geographer
Douglas Freshfield
British explorer
Lady Hester Stanhope
British noble
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Burton
British scholar and explorer
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Francis Galton
Francis Galton
British scientist
Sir John Franklin
Sir John Franklin
English explorer
George Mallory
George Mallory
British explorer and mountaineer
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Speke
John Hanning Speke
British explorer
Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
English officer and explorer
Edward Whymper
Edward Whymper
British mountaineer and artist
Oxley, John
John Oxley
British explorer
Evans, George William
George William Evans
English surveyor and explorer

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