Explorers

The 'old bus' endures: Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith's famous Fokker Southern Cross has pride of place in Brisbane.(RESTORED)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 2055 words; ...to venture into the Fokker's cockpit, an experience I will not soon forget. Kingsford-Smith acquired the Fokker from explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, who had originally intended to use it on an arctic expedition. Wilkins repaired the aircraft after an...

Mad Anthony.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 727 words; ...William Clark, who later used the 1794 campaign to start careers that took one to the presidency, one to iconic status as an explorer and both to territorial governorships. To call the Kentucky mounted rifles "militia" conjures up images of ill-armed...

SMOS satellite instrument comes alive.
NewsRx Health & Science; 12/20/2009; 788 words; ...the ground station," SMOS Mission Manager Susanne Mecklenburg said. The SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) Earth Explorer satellite and ESA's Proba-2 were launched into orbit together from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on 2 November...

New Cleopatra Exhibition to Make World Premiere at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute in Spring 2010.
NewsRx Health & Science; 12/20/2009; 1399 words; ...to the exhibition will be treated to an inside view of the search for Cleopatra through two ongoing expeditions by modern explorers Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt's pre-eminent archaeologist and Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and...

Banro appoints Michael Beckett to Board of Directors.
Investment Weekly News; 12/19/2009; 1232 words; ...Artillery. Commenting on Mr. Beckett's appointment, Simon Village, Chairman of Banro, stated: "As Banro moves from explorer to producer over the next 2 years we believe the Company will benefit from Michael's career experience and his input towards...