explorer
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Department of Agriculture plant explorer Frank Meyer collected dozens of soybean varieties in China, many of which government researchers Charles Piper and William Morse planted at the department’s Arlington Experimental Farm in Virginia.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Its remark follows an all-stock takeover deal between the explorer and Evolution Mining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Matthews, a maritime explorer and historian, first became interested in the crash in 2019, after reading about a luggage tag from the flight that had washed ashore in Florida.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Critics on the Croisette are starting to resemble that classic comic-strip panel in which an explorer crawls desperately across the sand toward an oasis that’s only a mirage.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Since the news was first reported, there were some geographers, including Sir Clements Markham, a British explorer and former president of the Royal Geographical Society, who had stirred up controversy by doubting Roosevelt's story.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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"Humans are natural explorers, and with them come their voices, their memories … and their microbes," said Prabal Saxena, a planetary scientist who led the study from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
But Jones doesn’t mind the urban explorers if they don’t trash the place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
It’s a tradition that dates back to 1886, and there have been over 200 such parades since then, celebrating great explorers, war heroes and champion athletes.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
During 32 dives to the site, explorers collected samples from 485 whale-fossil sites and active whale falls, and found a treasure trove of remains, including one extinct whale's skeleton.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
However, archaeological excavations, and scrutiny of descriptions left by the very first European explorers on our coasts, now suggest an initial number of around 20 million Indians.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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