This has been put forward by J. Richard Gott III, James E. Gunn, David N. Schramm, and Beatrice Tinsley, who said that asking what occurred before the Big Bang is like asking what is north of the North Pole.

* Greene, Jack, and J. R. Pole, eds.

On January 19 – 20, 1991, Charles J. Blackmer, an iron-worker for many years at McMurdo Station and the South Pole, accomplished a solo ascent in approximately seventeen hours via snow mobile.

In 1889 Verne wrote a second sequel to the novel, The Purchase of the North Pole, which has the gun club members ( led by J. T. Maston ) plan to use the " Columbiad " to alter the tilt of the earth to enable the mineral wealth of the Arctic region to be put within reach of exploitation.

* J. R. Pole ; Political Representation in England and the Origins of the American Republic ( 1966 )

Professor Jerome J. Collins, the Arctic explorer, postponed his departure on an ill-fated North Pole expedition to visit the caverns.

Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant John R. Swadener, U. S. Navy, navigator of the ski-equipped R4D in which Rear Admiral George J. Dufek made the first aircraft landing at the geographic South Pole, on October 31, 1956.

It was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U. S. Navy air photos, 1957 – 59, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Colonel Cicero J. Ellen of the U. S. Air Force, who was in command of many of the air operations when the South Pole Station was established by air drop in the 1956 – 57 season.

* Greene, Jack P. and J. R. Pole, eds.

Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.

Until I was transferred into the Seventh Ulanys I was like every other Pole in my feeling about Jews.

What I mean is, he was a Pole and the greatest soldier in the Ulanys.

In 1607 and 1608, the English Muscovy Company had sent him northward to look for a route over the North Pole or across the top of Russia.

The ship's compass was useless because of the nearness of the magnetic North Pole.

Fridtjof Nansen won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86 ° 14 ′ during his Nansen's Fram expedition | North Pole expedition of 1893 – 96.

* 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.

* 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.

The Antarctic continent, located in the Earth's southern hemisphere, is centered asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle.

East Antarctica is the larger part of the continent, both the South Magnetic Pole and geographic South Pole are situated here.

The McMurdo – South Pole Highway is a 900-mile ( 1450 km ) road in Antarctica linking the United States McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station.

Travelling in a specially designed six wheel drive vehicle, the team completed the journey from the Antarctic coast at Patriot Hills to the geographic South Pole in 69 hours.

They arrived at the South Pole on the 12th of December 2005.

* 1473 – Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury ( d. 1541 )

* 1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.

In 1680 Jean Picard, in his Voyage d ’ Uranibourg, stated, as a result of ten years ' observations, that Polaris, or the Pole Star, exhibited variations in its position amounting to 40 ″ annually.

John Flamsteed, from measurements made in 1689 and succeeding years with his mural quadrant, similarly concluded that the declination of the Pole Star was 40 ″ less in July than in September.

13 games were announced for the system's launch, including Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position II, Centipede, Joust, Dig Dug, Desert Falcon, Robotron: 2084, Galaga, Xevious, Food Fight, Ballblazer, Rescue on Fractalus !, and Track and Field.

Bundled accessories included two CX24 Pro-Line joysticks, AC adapter, switchbox, RCA connecting cable, and Pole Position II cartridge.

In 1947, at the age of 44, she met former actor Rupert Pole in a Manhattan elevator on her way to a party.

The two ended up dating and traveled to California together ; Pole was sixteen years her junior.

On March 17, 1955, she married him at Quartzsite, Arizona, returning with Pole to live in California.

: New general catalogue of double stars within 120 deg of the North Pole ( 1932, R. G. Aitken ).

At geodetic latitude 48. 46791 … degrees ( e. g., Lèves, Alsace, France ), the radius R is 20000 / π ≈ 6, 366. 1977 …, namely the radius of a perfect sphere for which the meridian arc length from the equator to the North Pole is exactly 10000 km, the originally proposed definition of the meter.

Bahia's Petrochemical Pole is the largest integrated complex in the Southern Hemisphere, and is the result of R $ 10 billion in investments, accounting for a third of the state's exports and for nearly half of the industrial production value.

From August 1, 1958 through August 5, 1958, USS Nautilus ( SSN-571 ) ( the first nuclear powered submarine, and the first nuclear powered ship of any kind ), under the command of Commander ( later Captain ) William R. Anderson, steamed under the Arctic ice cap to make the first crossing from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the North Pole.

* Fiennes, R. Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest.

Named by US-ACAN for Merritt R. Helfferich, USARP worker in the field of ionospheric physics at South Pole Station, 1967-68.

The United States, along with Great Britain, France, Japan, Norway, Chile, Argentina, and the U. S. S. R. agreed to go to the South Pole — the least explored area on Earth.

It reads " To the Glory of God and in memory of Edgar Evans 1st Class Petty Officer, R. N., and a native of this Parish, who perished on the 17 February 1912, when returning from the South Pole with the Southern Party of the British Antarctic Expedition under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, C. V. O., R. N.

* Review of surface melting from 2002 to the present revealed by the North Pole Web Cam

The new album will feature " Flyin ' the Flannel ," " Live Totem Pole EP ," " Mr. Machinery Operator ," as well as bonus material, including live cuts and instrumentals.

Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins took the leading roles as Miss Matty and Miss Deborah Jenkyns, with Imelda Staunton cast as the town's gossip, Miss Pole, and Michael Gambon as Miss Matty's former admirer, Mr. Holbrook.

In the second season, it is learned that he went to the North Pole at the end of the Christmas special and his cousin, also named Mr. Conductor, moved into the signal house and took on the role that his cousin played in the first season.

The second season casting change from Mr. Starr to George Carlin as Mr. Conductor would be explained by Starr's character having left Shining Time Station to go with Mr. Nicholas to the North Pole.

Once again reformed, Bad Mr. Frosty is a grouchy snowman who seeks to halt Dr. Kiln's sinister plot, and reclaim the North Pole from Sumo Santa.

At the same time, Lady Pole attempts to shoot Mr Norrell as he is returning home.

With the use of Mr. Hankey's Poo-Choo train ( a train made of feces that Stan and Kyle Broflovski want nothing to do with ), Cartman and the other boys travel to the North Pole to convince Santa Claus to make a special trip.

The Poppers wave goodbye as Mr. Popper and his penguins sail away towards the North Pole and Mr. Popper promises to be back in a year or two.