explorer
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In the 1770s, Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza led an expedition of settlers into what would later become California, bringing donkeys and horses with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Lynas Rare Earths has agreed to buy Meteoric Resources in an all-share deal that values the Australia-listed explorer at around $672 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Paddy describes himself as an "artist, inventor, explorer and plumber based in Belfast".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
It would take 118 years for a spacecraft to travel far enough away to find it, based on estimates from the speed of Nasa’s New Horizons explorer.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 2026
Frank Hurley, the twenty-four-year-old photographer, had been to the Antarctic with an explorer named Douglas Mawson, and was a key member because of the financial backing he could attract.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Dr Konyak points to explorers, colonial officials, missionaries and photographers drawn to tattooed faces, ornaments, weapons and headhunting, while the lives behind them often receded from view.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
By the end of the 16th century, travel accounts by English explorers inspired efforts to colonize the Carolina coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"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
Not a very imaginative lot, those Spanish explorers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The stars are the friends of explorers, then with seagoing ships on Earth and now with spacefaring ships in the sky.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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