National Geographic Society

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Leisure and Society Irene Handl
IH 's remarkable range of interests was reflected in her memberships of organizations. She was both a Fellow of the National Geographic Society and a member of the Elvis Presley Club (her Times obituary commented...
Publishing Jan Morris
JM published at Washington, DC, A Writer's House in Wales (commissioned by the National Geographic Society ).
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Morris, Jan. A Writer’s House in Wales. National Geographic, 2002.
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17 July 1959: While her husband Louis was in bed with the...

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17 July 1959

While her husband Louis was in bed with the flu, Mary Leakey discovered the 1.75-million-year-old skull of australopithicus boisei, better known as Nutcracker Man, in Olduvai (or properly Oldubai) Gorge, Tanzania.
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1967: The National Geographic Society published...

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1967

The National Geographic Society published My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees by scientist Jane Goodall .
Corbey, Raymond. The Metaphysics of Apes: Negotiating the Animal-Human Boundary. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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