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The Woman Who Crossed Africa in 1910 to Visit Her Fiancé’s Grave, and Is Buried in Granada

Despite its great success and being considered a classic today, the film adaptation of King Solomon’s Mines garnered some criticism because one of the characters, Sir Henry Curtis, the man who hires hunter Alan Quatermain to search for his missing brother in Africa, was turned into his wife, Elizabeth Curtis, on screen. A woman, in […]

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Carsten Niebuhr, the scientist who crossed the Middle East disguised as an Arab as the only survivor of the Royal Danish Expedition

Scientific travel became widespread among European countries from the mid-18th century following the establishment of the Enlightenment. And although the most famous were led by the great powers of the time (United Kingdom, France, Spain …), there were other nations that joined the trend. One of them was Denmark, which in 1761 organized an expedition […]