British explorers Richard Burton and John Speke crossed the interior to Lake Tanganyika in June 1857.

* February 13 – Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke become the first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika.

The lake was first sighted by a European in 1858 when the British explorer John Hanning Speke reached its southern shore while on his journey with Richard Francis Burton to explore central Africa and locate the Great Lakes.

Burton, who had been recovering from illness at the time and resting further south on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, was outraged that Speke claimed to have proved his discovery to have been the true source of the Nile, which Burton regarded as still unsettled.

The party was attacked and Burton and Speke were both severely wounded.

rightIn 1856, Speke and Burton went to East Africa to find the Great Lakes, which were rumoured to exist in the centre of the continent.

Routes taken by the expeditions of Burton and Speke ( 1857-1858 ) and Speke and Grant ( 1863 ).

Speke returned to England before Burton, on 8 May 1859, and made their trip famous in a speech to the Royal Geographical Society, in which he claimed to have discovered the source of the Nile.

A further rift was caused when Speke was chosen to lead a subsequent expedition instead of Burton.

Burton claimed that because Speke had not followed the Nile from the place it flowed out of Lake Victoria to Gondokoro, he could not be sure they were the same river.

" Cartographical Quandaries: The Limits of Knowledge Production in Burton ’ s and Speke ’ s Search for the Source of the Nile ".

The first known Westerners to find the lake were the Great British explorers Richard Burton and John Speke, in 1858.

* A debate at the Royal Geographical Society between Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke fails to take place, owing to Speke's suicide ( or accidental shooting ).

A definitive series, with new designs, was issued in 1954 for Queen Elizabeth, and in 1958 a pair of commemoratives marked the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Great Lakes of Africa by Burton and Speke.

Ujiji is the place where Richard Burton and John Speke first reached the shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1858.

One by one the other great mysteries had been investigated: the coasts by Prince Henry the Navigator's Portuguese sailors in the 15th century ; the Blue Nile by James Bruce in 1773 ; the remote upper Niger by Mungo Park in 1796 ; the vast Sahara by competitors Laing, Callié, and Clapperton in the 1820s ; the fever-ridden mangroves of the lower Niger by the Lander Brothers in 1830 ; southern Africa and the Zambezi by Livingstone and John Clafton in the 1850s ; the upper Nile by Burton, Speke, and Baker in a succession of expeditions between 1857 and 1868.

Some of these were Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Morton Stanley and James Augustus Grant.

The map details the mythical Mountains of the Moon ( Africa ) | Mountains of the Moon, which were first postulated by Ptolemy to be the source of the Nile and remained on maps until the mid 19th century explorations of Richard Francis Burton | Burton, John Hanning Speke | Speke, and David Livingstone | Livingstone.

Expeditions by Burton and Speke ( 1857 – 1858 ) and Speke and Grant ( 1863 ) located Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria.

Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.

* Absalom is the name given to the caterpillar by screenwriter Linda Woolverton in Disney's " Alice in Wonderland ," directed by Tim Burton.

Photograph by Harry Burton ( Egyptologist ) | Harry Burton ( 1879-1940 )

Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).

Almost Like Being in Love featured music by Frederick Loewe, Burton Lane, Andre Previn, Charles Strouse, and Kurt Weill.

In the American Old West of 1874, construction on a new railroad led by Lyle ( Burton Gilliam ) runs into quicksand.

It is made in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, owned and distributed by Unilever UK.

In 1994, the biopic Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton, alleged that Wood and the filmmakers stole the mechanical octopus ( previously used in the film Wake of the Red Witch ) from the Republic Studios backlot, while failing to steal the motor which enabled the prop to move realistically, although, by the director's admission, the film preferred narrative interest over historical accuracy.

In his book The Myth of the Robber Barons, Burton W. Folsom, Jr. distinguished those that engage in crony capitalism — designated by him " political entrepreneurs "— from those who compete in the marketplace without special aid from government, whom he calls " market entrepreneurs " who succeed " by producing a quality product at a competitive price "

Also suggested as a possible influence on Poe is ‘ The Secret Cell ’, a short story published in September 1837 by William Evans Burton, describing how a London policeman solves the mystery of a kidnapped girl.

The last English translation of the novel in the 20th century was by Burton Raffel, published in 1996.

Richard Burton starred in the first broadcast in 1954, and was joined by Elizabeth Taylor in a subsequent film.

His visit to say goodbye to BBC producer Philip Burton, a few days before he left for New York, was interrupted by a blackout.

* 1962: Dylan Thomas, a short, Oscar-winning, documentary film with Richard Burton as narrator, directed by Jack Howells.

The first practical electron microscope was constructed in 1938, at the University of Toronto, by Eli Franklin Burton and students Cecil Hall, James Hillier, and Albert Prebus ; and Siemens produced the first commercial transmission electron microscope ( TEM ) in 1939.

Translated by Burton Raffel.

Records such as " Let Me Be the One " by Safire, " I Remember What You Like " by Jenny Burton, " Running " by Information Society, " Give Me Tonight " by Shannon and " It Works For Me " by Pam Russo enjoyed heavy New York radio airplay.

Most Muslim scholars have regarded the story as historically implausible, while opinion is divided among western scholars such as Leone Caetani and John Burton, who argue against, and William Muir and William Montgomery Watt, who argue for its plausibility.

Portrait by Frederick William Burton.

* 1789 – William Burton, American politician ( d. 1866 )

Today some rabbis who advocate some form of process theology include Bradley Shavit Artson, Lawrence A. Englander, William E. Kaufman, Harold Kushner, Anton Laytner, Michael Lerner, Gilbert S. Rosenthal, Lawrence Troster, Donald B. Rossoff, Burton Mindick, and Nahum Ward.

In 1641, the Long Parliament, led by John Pym and inflamed by the severe treatment of John Lilburne, as well as that of other religious dissenters such as William Prynne, Alexander Leighton, John Bastwick and Henry Burton, abolished the Star Chamber with an Act of Parliament, the Habeas Corpus Act 1640.

WarGames was nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Cinematography ( William A. Fraker ), Sound ( Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios, Aaron Rochin, Willie D. Burton ), and Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen ( Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes ).

The efficiency of what later was to be called the " cap-and-trade " approach to air pollution abatement was first demonstrated in a series of micro-economic computer simulation studies between 1967 and 1970 for the National Air Pollution Control Administration ( predecessor to the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation ) by Ellison Burton and William Sanjour.

* 1921: The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, whose nature has been so clearly fixed in the English-speaking imagination that, as Katherine Briggs has remarked, " it no longer seems natural to talk as Robert Burton does in the Anatomie of Melancholy of a puck instead of ' Puck '".

Spiner with William Shatner and LeVar Burton in July 2010

* Burton process, a thermal cracking process invented by William M. Burton, used to produce diesel fuel

* Sir Frederick William Burton ( painter )

Seven of Delaware's governors have come from Milford: Daniel Rogers ( who served 1797-99 ), Joseph Haslet ( 1811 – 14 ), William Tharp ( 1847 – 1851 ), Peter F. Causey ( 1855 – 59 ), William Burton ( 1859 – 63 ), William T. Watson ( 1895 – 97 ), and Ruth Ann Minner ( 2001 – 09 ).

" William Burton Patent for Long Neck "

" Whereas, there is a certaine parcel of land situated on the West side of Delaware Bay the which hath been certified by the Court at the Horekill and laide out for William Burton the saide Land being called the Long Neck lying on the South side of Rehoboth Bay and on the North side of the Greate River beginning at a point of woods and running West up the Greate River one thousand perches to a White Oak at the head of a small creek called Indian Cabin Creek and from thence North three hundred and fifty perches to a White Oak standing by a creek side called Middle Creek with a line of marked trees and from thence bounder upon the aforesaid Bay to the first bounded point Southeast one thousand perches containing One Thousand Acres of Land.

" Know Ye That by Virtue of His Majesty Lord's Patent and the Commission and authority unto me given by His Royal Highness, I have given and granted by these presents, Doe hereby give and grant unto the said William Burton his heirs and assigns the aforesaid recited piece of Land and Premises with their and every of their appurtenances ; To Have and To Hold the saide piece of land and premises unto the saide William Burton his heirs and assigns unto the proper use and behoofe of him the said William Burton his heirs and assigns forever he making present improvements thereon and continuing in obedience and conforming himself according to the Laws of this Government and yielding and paying therefor yearly and every yeare unto His Royal Highness as a quite Rent Ten bushels of good winter wheat unto such officers as shall be there Impowered to receive the same.