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Birth
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January 28, 1841
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Death
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May 10, 1904
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Place of Birth
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Denbigh, Wales
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Known for
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Opening Central Africa to exploration and commercialization by European powers
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Locating Scottish missionary-explorer David Livingstone in East Africa in 1871
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Milestones
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1868 As a reporter for the New York Herald, was the first to report the British defeat of Ethiopian Emperor Theodore II at Magdala, Ethiopia
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November 10, 1871 Found David Livingstone in Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, East Africa
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1874-1877 Embarked on second expedition to Africa, during which he circumnavigated Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika; traced the course of the Congo River, crossing Africa from east to west
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1879 Returned to the Congo River under sponsorship of King Leopold II of Belgium to set up trading posts
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1888 Rescued Emin Pasha, administrator in the Sudan, who had been holding out against a Muslim uprising for several years
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1889 Traveled with Emin Pasha to Zanzibar, crossing Africa from west to east
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1889? Sighted the Ruwenzori Range, known in the past as the fabled 'Mountains of the Moon' and believed in ancient times to be the source of the Nile
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1895 Won a seat in the British Parliament
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1899 Was knighted by Queen Victoria
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Quote
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'Dr. Livingstone, I presume?' Reportedly said in greeting to David Livingstone, November 10, 1871.
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Did You Know
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Stanley was known by Africans as Bula Matari ('breaker of rocks') for showing them how to break up rocks in the construction of roads.
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Stanley joined the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and was captured; he was released after agreeing to join the Union Army, became ill, and was discharged.
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The expedition to find David Livingstone was a New York Herald assignment given to Stanley by the newspaper's editor.
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Stanley was born John Rowlands, the illegitimate child of an absent father and a mother who died when he was young; as an adult he changed his name to Henry Morton Stanley, after a New Orleans businessman who gave him a job.
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