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* Ernest Shackleton ( 1874 – 1922 ) – Anglo-Irish Explorer, noted for his ill-fated Endurance expedition to Antarctica.
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* 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship.
* 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
* Sir Ernest Shackleton ( 1874 – 1922 ), Antarctic explorer during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
This march, undertaken by Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson, took them to a latitude of 82 ° 17 ′ S, about from the pole.
It was therefore unwelcome news to him that Ernest Shackleton had announced his own plans to travel to Discoverys old McMurdo Sound base and launch a bid for the South Pole from there.
Amundsen, along with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
* RRS Discovery, a Royal Geographical Society research vessel which, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, was the main ship of the 1901 – 1904 " Discovery Expedition " to Antarctica which is still preserved as a museum in Dundee, Scotland.
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE, FRGS ( 15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922 ) was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer, one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Ernest Shackleton was born on 15 February 1874 in kikea near Athy, County Kildare, Ireland, about from Dublin.
In 1880, when Ernest was six, Henry Shackleton gave up his life as a landowner to study medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, moving his family into the city.
Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
In 1913 Peary was photographed with North Pole explorer Roald Amundsen and South Pole explorer Ernest Shackleton
* Land-based maritime patrol aircraft were named for naval explorers-Avro Anson ( George Anson, 1st Baron Anson ), Lockheed Hudson ( Henry Hudson ), Avro Shackleton ( Ernest Shackleton ), Bristol Beaufort ( Francis Beaufort ).
Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who presided at the club dinner in 1910, allowed his two young children-Raymond and Cecily-to play cowboys and Indians on the cricket green during the week.
Famous people who have lived here include Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer ; George Grove of musical dictionary fame ; John Logie Baird, the television inventor ; Jason Statham, an actor ; the comics and film historian Denis Gifford ; and Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement.
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Ernest Duchesne ( 30 May 1874 – 12 April 1912 ) was a French physician who noted that certain moulds kill bacteria.
Alfred Ernest Tysoe ( 21 March 1874 – 26 October 1901 ) was a British athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1900 Olympic Games.
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( Alfred Alexander William Ernest Albert ; 15 October 1874 – 6 February 1899 ) was born a member of the British Royal Family.
Ernest William Barnes FRS ( 1 April 1874 – 29 November 1953 ) was an English mathematician and scientist who later became a theologian and bishop.
The Gibson Desert was named by explorer Ernest Giles after a member of his party, Alfred Gibson, who became lost and presumably died in this desert during an expedition in 1874.
Alfred Gibson ( died 1874 ) was an Australian explorer who died in an 1874 expedition organised by Ernest Giles which sought to cross the deserts of Western Australia from east to west.
Ernest Sargent Barnard ( July 17, 1874 – March 27, 1931 ) was the second President of the American League, serving from 1927 until his death in 1931.
Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Ernest George Archibald Weigall, 1st Baronet KCMG ( 8 December 1874 – 3 June 1952 ) was a British Conservative politician who was Governor of South Australia from 9 June 1920 until 30 May 1922.
He was the father of Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond ( b. 1871 ), a naval historian, and of Ernest Richmond ( b. 1874 ), an architect.
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The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).
Ernest, Elector of Saxony ( 1464 – 1486 ), Frederick II, Elector of Saxony ( 1428 – 1464 ) and Albert III, Duke of Saxony ( 1486 – 1500 ); Fürstenzug, Dresden, Germany
William Ernest " Bill " Walsh ( November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007 ) was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.
In 1878 the Monets temporarily moved into the home of Ernest Hoschedé, ( 1837 – 1891 ), a wealthy department store owner and patron of the arts.
Lithograph of the President's House, Thornton Hall, Dartmouth Hall, and Wentworth Hall, circa 1834. Presidents Ernest Fox Nichols ( 1909 – 16 ) and Ernest Martin Hopkins ( 1916 – 45 ) continued Tucker's trend of modernization, further improving campus facilities and introducing selective admissions in the 1920s.
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