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5 days ago · 19:00, 28 Oct 2024. John Humphries, residents committee chairman (on the wall) with some of the tenants from Speke Estate. 3rd July 1988 (Image: Mirrorpix) A small village surrounded by farmland ...
Captain John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an English explorer and military officer who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was the first European to reach Lake Victoria (known to locals as Nam Lolwe in Dholuo and Nnalubaale or Ukerewe in Luganda).
Mountains of the Moon is a 1990 American biographical film depicting the 1857–1858 journey of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke in their expedition to Central Africa, which culminated in Speke's discovery of the source of the Nile River and led to a bitter rivalry between the two men.
The legendary true-story of two strangers who made friends by a savage land, they're Capt. Richard Francis Burton (Patrick Bergin) and cohort Lt. John Hanning Speke (Iain Glen) in the late 1800s, carrying out a tumultuous expedition that gains new life in this handsomely produced account.
Jack Speke was Burton's traveling companion and acolyte, much younger, six feet tall with blue eyes, whom Burton tried to seduce, claimed Speke, an incident totally ignored by Rice. It was Speke, to Burton's distress and humiliation, who discovered the source of the Nile.
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Jun 6, 2022 · The real Peaky Blinders was a petty street gang that operated from the 1880s until World War 1 in Birmingham, England. After a couple of cops tried to arrest one young Peaky Blinder, his crew threw a brick at one of the cop’s heads with such force that he fractured the skull in two places, killing him.
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Jul 27, 2023 · Less is known of Mabruki, the other caravan leader, but he was later known as Mabruki Speke, and like Bombay became one of East Africa's great caravan leaders and was also a member of the Yoa tribe like Bombay.
