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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Michael J Ybarra, Man On a Quest; For one era, a saint and martyr; for
another, a racist and imperialist. Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230406650457634772
(book review on Frank McLynn, Captain Cook; Master of the Sea. Yale Univ
Press, 2011)
Note:
(a) James Cook (1728-1779)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_cook
His first two voyages were circumnavigation. In his third voyage, he was
killed at Hawaii and his crew completed the navigation. See the map in
section 5 Interlude.
(b) HMS Endeavour "was a British Royal Navy research vessel commanded by
Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New
Zealand from 1769 to 1771."
HMS Endeavour
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Endeavour
Due to this fame, a US space shuttle is spelled the British way: "Endeavour."
(c) Terra Australis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Australis
(section 1 Origin)
* Terra Australis Incognita is Latin for "unknown southern land."
* Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
(the name Australia is derived from the Latin australis, meaning "southern")
(d) Marcus Aurelius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius
(121-180; Roman emperor 161-180)
(e) recourse (n; Latin recurrere to run back):
"a turning to someone or something for help or protection
matter without recourse to law>"
www.m-w.com
(f) Boys' Own
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys%27_Own
(g) James Wolfe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe
(1727-1759; In Seven Years' War (1756-1763), Wolfe captured Quebec from
French after a lengthy siege; Wolfe was killed at the height of the battle
due to injuries from three musket balls)
(h) execration (n):
"1 the act of cursing or denouncing; also : the curse so uttered
2: an object of curses : something detested"
(i) Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of Queensland in north-east
Australia.
(j) Age of Discovery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery
(a period in history starting in the early 15th century and continuing into
the early 17th century during which Europeans engaged in intensive
exploration of the world; from the 1580s to the 1640s Russians explored and
conquered almost the whole of Siberia)
(k) WDoing research on New Zealand, I was surprised by the new discovery
that is unknown to me, about aborigines from Taiwan to populate the Pacific.
See the map in section 2 History of
New Zealand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_zealand
, citing
Wilmshurst JM, Hunt TL; Lipo CP and Anderson AJ, High-Precision Radiocarbon
Dating Shows Recent and Rapid Initial Human Colonization of East Polynesia".
Proc Nat Acad Sci, 108: 1815–1820 (2011).
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/5/1815 |
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