#Robert e Peary

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I saw this image many years ago and it’s stayed in my head ever since.

Robert E. Peary

AN INUIT MAN WARMS HIS WIFE'S FEET, 1890.

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In this May 14, 1926 photo, Matthew A. Henson points to a map of the North Pole. Henson was one of Robert E. Peary's crew on seven voyages over nearly 23 years. They and a team of Inuit guides planted a U.S. flag at the North Pole in April 1909, making them the first modern team to reach that point. In 1912, Henson published a memoir entitled A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Photo: Associated Press

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Robert E. Peary, An Inuit man warms his wife’s feet, Greenland, 1880—1890s, National Geographic

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Taormina has always been renowned as a destination for British visitors ever since the 18th Century with many leaving a legacy of history and romance giving the town a quintessential British touch. From the Grand Tour to poets, writers, movie stars and pop idols you can find evidence of the British Isles everywhere.

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From The Buffalo Evening News, 27 July 1911

Frederick Cook defends his reputation to the lecture-going public.

Full transcript and link beneath the cut.

DR. COOK FEELS LIKE PUNCHING CAPT. PEARY

Special to the NEWS

BELLEFONTAINE, O. [Ohio], July 26.—Dr. Frederick Cook, Arctic explorer, opened his batteries here last night on Capt. Robert E. Peary from a Chautauqua platform. Dr. Cook asserted, with clenched fists, that Peary resorted to trickery of every sort to besmirch his name and rob him of the honor of discovering the north pole.

“I only want the honor of discovering the north pole to which I am rightfully entitled. I will defend my honor with my money and documents and if necessary with my fists,” declared the doctor.

Source: NYS Historic Newspapers

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An aerial view of the U.S. Navy Battle Group Echo underway in formation in the northern Arabian Sea on 1 November 1987. The ships are, from the top, right to left,

Row 1:

USNS Hassayampa (T-AO-145),

USS Leftwich (DD-984),

USS Hoel (DDG-13);

Row 2:

fleet replenishment oiler USS Kansas City (AOR-3),

USS Bunker Hill (CG-52),

USS Robert E. Peary (FF-1073);

Row 3:

USS Long Beach (CGN-9),

USS Ranger (CV-61),

USS Missouri (BB-63);

Row 4:

USS Wichita (AOR-1),

USS Gridley (CG-21),

USS Curts (FFG-38);

Row 5

USS Shasta (AE-33),

USS John Young (DD-973) and

USS Buchanan (DDG-14) . USN Image PH3 Wimmer, U.S. Navy

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“𝗜𝗻𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗳𝗲'𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝘁, 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝟭𝟴𝟵𝟬𝘀

Robert E. Peary went to Greenland in 1891 along with his wife, Josephine, and Frederick A. Cook, an explorer who would guide them. Peary wanted to spend time with the isolated tribe known as the "Arctic Highlanders" whom he has made contact with. They liked him and helped him as he explored their land.

During his time there, he snapped photos of their lives and how they survive in such harsh conditions. This photo that Peary took shows how an Inuit man is warming his wife's feet.” - @/historical world

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Diary of Robert E. Peary, page 5

Collection XP: Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary Family CollectionSeries: North Pole Diaries

[double underline] C. Columbia [/double underline]

16 ret. m.      61 d. 

Wed-Thurs. Apr. 22-23

8.-a.m. Apr. 23

My life work is [ended - crossed out] accomplished. The thing which it was intended from the beginning that I should do, the thing which I believed could be done, & that I could do, I have done.

I have got the North Pole out of my system.

After 23 yrs. of effort, hard work, disappointments, hardships, privations, more or less suffering & some risks, I have won the last, great, geographical prize, the North Pole, for the credit of the U.S., the Service to which I belong, myself, & my family.

My work is the finish, the cap & the climax, of 300 years of effort, loss of life, & expenditure of millions, by some of the best men of the civilized nations of

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Today's Black History Month illustration is of Matthew Henson, the first Black Arctic explorer and a part of the small group considered to be the first to reach the geographic North Pole in 1909.

Matthew Alexander Henson was born in 1866 in Maryland. He was the son of two freeborn Black sharecroppers. When Henson was 4, his father moved the family to Washington DC for better work opportunities. His parents died early on and Henson and his siblings were left with other family members.

When Henson was 11, he left home to find his own way. He walked from DC all the way to Baltimore, Maryland and found work as a cabin boy on the ship Katie Hines. The skipper, Captain Childs, took Henson under his wing and educated him. Also, while being a cabin boy, he travelled to Asia, Africa, and Europe.

After Captain Child passed, he made his way back to Washington DC. In 1887, while working in a store, Henson met Robert E. Peary, who hired him as a valet for his next expedition to Nicaragua. Peary was impressed with Henson’s skills and all around resourcefulness and employed him as an attendant on seven expeditions to the Arctic.

On April 6, 1909, Henson, Peary, and four Inuit guides, Egingwah, Ooqueah, Ootah, and Seeglo, drove their dogsleds to the North Pole. It’s said that Henson arrived alone at what he thought was the North Pole. Peary caught up to him an hour later and refused to accept Henson’s calculation. Peary then chose a different location and called it the North Pole.

When they returned home from the expedition, Peary received most of the accolades for the trip even though Henson was technically first. And despite the accolades, the team faced a lot of skepticism, and Peary had to testify before Congress about the lack of proof of reaching the North Pole.

By order of President Taft, Henson was appointed clerk in the US Customs House in New York City and he also continued to talk about his experiences as an explorer. In 1912, he wrote the book A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. In 1937, when Henson was 70, he was accepted as an honorary member of the highly regarded Explorers Club. A few years later, he and the other members of the North Pole Expedition were awarded a Congressional Medal. In 1947, he worked with Bradley Robinson to write his biography, Dark Companion.

Henson died in NYC in 1955, but was reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery in 1987 at the request of Dr. S. Allen Counter of Harvard University.

I'll be back tomorrow with another illustration and story!

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North Carolina Whistleblower: FEMA Has Housing Units but Has No Timeline to 'Release' Them

Helene continues to be a homewrecker. The hurricane that swept through western North Carolina in October, ravaging towns, destroying roads, burying people, and ruining lives, continues to haunt North Carolinians. Is the government doing what it should to help? It doesn't seem so.   

We tend to forget unless reminded, but people are still suffering in North Carolina. America was assured that FEMA was there to help. And maybe they were, but we were also told that claims of FEMA slow walking desperately needed help and aid were nasty, baseless rumors. Until they weren't rumors. A FEMA crew leader told her team to avoid houses with Trump signs. She was fired, but she had a lot to say. 

[N]ow that unemployed official is talking, and she's revealing there's much more to the story. Her name is Marn'i Washington, and she was a reservist disaster assistance crew leader. She spoke to Roland Martin on his show "Roland Martin Unfiltered" on the Black Star Network on Monday evening and said the avoidance in question was "not isolated" and was part of a broader agency approach.  She alleged it was a "colossal event of avoidance not just in the state of Florida" but that it also happened "in the Carolinas." She said, "Senior leadership will lie to you and tell you they did not know." But she said if you asked the people in the field, they would tell you.   She claimed that the avoidance was about keeping teams safe.

Before that, we watched as FEMA employees gave each other virtual hugs on a Zoom call demanding that FEMA prioritize help based on DEI.   

We learned that rebuilding roads that were destroyed might take a year. Coal miners from West Virginia said, “Not on your life.”  

— Appalachian Liberty (@Liberty_Xtreme) October 26, 2024

I mused about the coal miners not pulling permits and maybe not submitting an environmental impact report (in triplicate). I guess I wasn’t far off. 

No doubt that government officials are claiming that the road built by coal miners wasn't constructed to last, and someone might get hurt driving on it. 

Then fix it. 

When America was brought into World War II, America ramped up. American workers got it done. By example: 

Liberty Ships, the "Ugly Duckling" workhorses of World War II, were built in 13 states by 15 companies in 18 shipyards. The first of 2,710 Liberty ships, the SS Patrick Henry, was launched in September 1941, after 150 days of construction. (The shipyard was built at the same time as the ship.)  

The Liberty ship Robert E. Peary was built in four days, 15 hours, and 29 minutes — entire ship built in under a week. If government wanted to get things "done" in North Carolina, things would get done. Government in western North Carolina isn’t solving problems; it is doing what it does best: It’s putting up roadblocks. Literal roadblocks. 

Is government helping to house people who lost everything? 

While federal employees are mostly working from home, people in western North Carolina don’t have homes. FEMA people are cutting videos and claiming they are doing their best. Are they? 

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) November 20, 2024

Why the delay? Why is FEMA producing videos but not delivering housing to people who are living in tents? 

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) November 18, 2024

Is there a reason — a legitimate reason? Or is FEMA doing what government always does? Nothing productive. Winter is right around the corner. Units are waiting. And for what? 

— Cassie Clark (@dogwoodblooms) November 20, 2024

Everyone recalls what happened in New Orleans, and a lot of the stories turned out to be myth. Here is actual evidence of people in desperate need and FEMA is sitting on its hands.    

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This is everything I've read and tagged "polar adjacent" on my Goodreads. As you can see, I read The Terror and then fell straight down a deep Arctic crevasse, reading everything I could get my hands on across two library systems and a couple ILLs.

Roughly in order of read date:

The Terror, by Dan Simmons

Frozen In Time: The Fate of The Franklin Expedition, by Owen Beattie and John Geiger

Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage, by Glyn Williams

Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition, by Scott Cookman

The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage, by Anthony Brandt

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole, by Fergus Fleming

The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne

Across The Top Of The World: The Last Great Journey On Earth, by Wally Herbert

The Noose of Laurels: Robert E. Peary and the Race to the North Pole, by Wally Herbert

True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole, by Bruce Henderson

Winner Lose All: Dr. Cook and the theft of the North Pole, by Hugh Eames

To the End of the Earth: Our Epic Journey to the North Pole and the Legend of Peary and Henson, by Tom Avery

Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Høeg

Cook and Peary: The Polar Controversy, Resolved, by Robert M. Bryce

The Annotated Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Martin Gardner, and illustrated by Gustave Doré

North to the Pole, by Will Steger

Antarctica: Exploring the Extreme: 400 Years of Adventure, by Marilyn J. Landis

Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899: A Narrative of the Voyage of the "Belgica" Among Newly Discovered Lands and Over an Unknown Sea About the South Pole, by Frederick A. Cook

An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science, by Edward J. Larson

The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: Unseen Images from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition, by David M. Wilson

And an honorable mention to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, my reading of which predates this polar madness, and a special shoutout to Smilla, Frankenstein, and the Ancient Mariner, which were all rereads.

The Terror

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Events 4.6 (before 1940)

46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus. 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia. 1320 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. 1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople. The city falls on May 29, and is renamed Istanbul. 1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place. 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town. 1712 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat. 1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) establishes the Chakri dynasty. 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic. 1800 – The Treaty of Constantinople establishes the Septinsular Republic, the first autonomous Greek state since the Fall of the Byzantine Empire. (Under the Old Style calendar then still in use in the Ottoman Empire, the treaty was signed on 21 March.) 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire. 1812 – British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France. 1814 – Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba. 1830 – Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith and others at either Fayette or Manchester, New York. 1841 – U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become president upon William Henry Harrison's death. 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois. 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston. 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia, during the Appomattox Campaign. 1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956. 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I. 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability. 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg). 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany. 1918 – Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere ends. 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines). 1929 – Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives. 1930 – At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." 1936 – Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.

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IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL DIA 6 DE ABRIL DE 2024

Día Internacional del Deporte para el Desarrollo y la Paz, Año Internacional de los Camélidos.

San Genardo y San Celestino.

Tal día como hoy en el año 1994

La región africana de los Grandes Lagos será escenario desde el día hoy hasta el 19 de julio de uno de los más grandes genocidios de la historia de la humanidad, al asesinar milicias extremistas de la etnia hutu a casi un millón de ruandeses tutsis e incluso hutus moderados. (Hace 30 años)

1959

La UNESCO lanza un llamamiento internacional en el que invita al mundo a conceder ayuda financiera y técnica para salvaguardar los monumentos egipcios de la Baja Nubia, que inevitablemente van a quedar sumergidos en el enorme lago artificial que se va a crear, de más de 500 km de longitud con una anchura máxima de 30 km, y media de 10 km, al iniciarse, hace poco, las obras de construcción de la gran presa de Aswan en Egipto. (Hace 65 años)

1943

En Francia ve la luz la primera edición de la inmortal obra de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "El principito", una bella metáfora sobre la vida, la amistad y el amor en forma de fábula infantil para adultos. (Hace 81 años)

1909

Robert E. Peary, marino, científico y explorador estadounidense alcanza, por primera vez en la historia de la humanidad, el Norte geográfico. Partió en esta expedición de exploración, en noviembre del año anterior. (Hace 115 años)

1896

En Atenas (Grecia) se inauguran los I Juegos Olímpicos de la Era Moderna, 1.500 años después de su prohibición por el emperador romano Teodosio I. Competirán en ellos 13 países y 295 atletas, 197 de los cuales serán griegos. Estas olimpiadas se clausurarán el día 15 de abril. El barón Pierre de Coubertin, pretende así recuperar los ideales deportivos de la Grecia clásica. (Hace 128 años)

1814

En París (Francia) Luis XVIII, hermano de Luis XVI, es coronado rey al presentar Napoleón I su abdicación al gobierno provisional de un país ocupado por las tropas triunfantes de los aliados. Se convierte así en el primer monarca de la Restauración Borbónica. Con él, regresan a Francia costumbres que parecían desterradas: rígida etiqueta cortesana y una intromisión, no disimulada del rey, en los asuntos de gobierno. (Hace 210 años)

1722

El emperador ruso Pedro I el Grande impone un tributo de 50 rublos anuales sobre las barbas que llevan los fieles ortodoxos. (Hace 302 años)

1652

En Sudáfrica, un holandés, Jan Van Riebeck, empleado de la Compañía Holandesa de las Indias Orientales, funda Ciudad de El Cabo, que aún permanecerá muchos años semiabandonada. (Hace 372 años)

1453

El sultán turco Mehmed II, con un ejército de unos 100.000 hombres y diez baterías de artillería, entre las que se cuentan tres enormes cañones, comienza el asedio de Constantinopla (actual ciudad de Estambul, Turquía). La artillería someterá a las murallas a un bombardeo casi constante. Tras varias escaramuzas, finalmente, el 29 de mayo comenzará el ataque final y al atardecer los jenízaros lograrán abrise paso a través de los muros destruidos por la artillería junto a la puerta de San Romano y la bandera turca ondeará en las, hasta ese momento, infranqueables murallas de Constantinopla. (Hace 571 años)

402

El rey visigodo Alarico I, que en su conquista de la península itálica tras saquear el Veneto y el valle del Po se dirige hacia la región de Milán, sufre un revés al ser asaltado su campamento y resultar secuestrada su esposa e hijos por parte de las tropas del general romano Estilicón. Este hecho acabará por hacerle negociar y aceptar el compromiso de abandonar Italia, retirándose a Istria (actual Croacia), a cambio de la libertad de su familia y algunos miembros de su comitiva que también fueron apresados durante el asalto. (Hace 1622 años)

46aC

Julio César da el golpe final contra la facción conservadora republicana del Senado, partidarios de Pompeyo el Grande dirigidos por Marco Porcio Catón y Quinto Cecilio Metelo Escipión, en la batalla de Tapso (Túnez). Con esta victoria, César termina con la resistencia en África, y da un paso más hacia la victoria en la Guerra civil y al poder absoluto. (Hace 2070 años)

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Robert E. Peary, Members of a group led by Robert E. Peary wave from a spot near the North Pole, 1909

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Robert E. Peary - An Inuit man warms his wife's feet, 1890

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