Charging elephant kills BBC guide Oct 31, 2009
The show was tracing the footsteps of explorer David Livingstone in Africa. "We understand at this stage that he was charged by an elephant and was mortally injured," she added. (BBC News -- UK)
A big week for Liza Minnelli Oct 12, 2009
Strong, a Newcastle-born former Sydney Grammar student and great-great-grandson of the explorer David Livingstone, lives in Los Angeles. He formed a business partnership with the singer in 1989 that was called Jackson Strong Alliance. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
UK bank woes prompted riot fears Oct 7, 2009
Bank failures would have forced the government to cancel police leave and deploy troops as the breakdown of the financial payments system threatened the ability of utilities to provide essential services, said David Livingstone, a fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London, a former adviser to the government's Cobra crisis response committee. You are talking about a situation with mass disorder and panic,'' the former Royal Navy officer said in an interview. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Gods ways help in dark days Jul 5, 2009
David Livingstone said, I d rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God than on the throne of England out of the will of God. In Psalm 25, King David prayed for divine guidance. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
A royal rush Jun 21, 2009
Roaring sound and a dense mist announce Victoria Falls, which stuns viewers today as it did the explorer David Livingstone in 1855 ... The next morning, Chanter drove us through the city, to the edge of what the Scottish missionary doctor and explorer David Livingstone discovered in 1855 and called Victoria Falls, in honor of the British queen. (Boston Globe)
Zimbabwe seeks tourism kick from World Cup Jun 20, 2009
Scottish explorer David Livingstone is said to have written after first seeing the Victoria Falls in 1855: "On sights as beautiful as this, angels in their flight must have gazed.". The magnificent waterfalls were once one of Africa's biggest tourist attractions, but Zimbabwe's political violence and economic collapse have reduced visitors to a trickle both here and at the country's other attractions. (MSNBC -- Sports)
'Expedition' retraces steps of early adventurers May 30, 2009
"Expedition Africa" retraces Henry Morton Stanley's quest to find Dr. David Livingstone in 1871 ... The explorers were re-creating the journey that American journalist Henry Morton Stanley took in 1871 on his quest to find Dr. David Livingstone, the heroic 19th-century Scottish explorer who disappeared during an expedition to locate the source of the Nile River. (CNN -- Travel)
"Expedition Africa" For Adventure, Not $ May 27, 2009
"I brought together four great explorers, three men and one woman, and we set them off from Zanzibar, a small spice island in the Indian Ocean where most great African expeditions head off from. "Their mission was to go 1,000 miles west and find the place where Stanley found Dr. David Livingstone and that famous saying, 'Dr ... Stanley, an American journalist, searching for Britain's lost explorer, David Livingstone. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Dr. Multiplatform, AETN Presumes May 18, 2009
On Expedition Africa, History's eight-part series from Mark Burnett Productions, a team of four explorers will look to follow the journey of Henry Morton Stanley and his quest for the "lost" Dr. David Livingstone. And History wants Comcast, Time Warner and Cox subscribers to enhance their sense of the trek from Zanzibar to Tanzania via a host of supporting on-demand and broadband content. (Multichannel News)
• COLUMN: It happened in Hollywood, Idaho May 8, 2009
"Stanley and Livingstone" (1939): Unaccountably, Sun Valley was one of the locations for this African historical epic about British explorer Henry Stanley (Spencer Tracy) and missionary doctor David Livingstone (Cedric Harwicke). Kenya and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) were the others. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
What a Relief It Is Having a Maasai Wedding Planner Apr 17, 2009
Because we have received images of Africa in such grandiose formthrough the explorations of Sir Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke, the adventure stories of David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley, and the safari literature of Theodore Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway, even the animations of Disneythe place takes on mythical proportions. And to see it first hand gives just that impression: of a myth, materialized. (Slate)
Cyber Spying Rampant Worldwide Apr 10, 2009
David Livingstone, author of a report on cyber threats by the London-based Chatham House think tank, said cyber espionage is a problem in all sectors -- businesses, government and individuals. "Anywhere there is attractive intellectual property and anything that is valuable and useful to someone else will be a target," he said. (Click2Houston, TX)
Crisis sparks 33 pct drop in first-quarter M&A Mar 27, 2009
David Livingstone at Credit Suisse, which ranked top for European M&A, said M&A remained highly dependent on the economic outlook. "There's less overall confidence in making strategic moves, and continued dislocation in credit markets. We'd anticipate this situation will broadly continue through the rest of the year," he said. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
ANGEL FOOD: Watermelon's Journey Mar 24, 2009
In the mid-1800s, David Livingstone sighted watermelons in the Kalahari Desert. Fascinated, the great explorer observed that the Bushmen of the region treated them with utmost respect. (India Times, India)
A review of David Grann's 'The Lost City of Z' Mar 18, 2009
David Livingstone, six years lost from the Western world in his search for the source of the Nile, refused to be taken back when at last he was tracked down by H.M. Stanley ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?") and instead he died ill, alone and half-mad. Percy Harrison Fawcett became so convinced that a lost civilization had once flourished in the Amazon that, in 1925, he took his own son on a final expedition into its darkest reaches, where they disappeared almost without a trace. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
National Trust closes properties Mar 7, 2009
Hill of Tarvit Mansion House in Fife will close and the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre will be returned to trustees unless new funding is found ... "Our members and supporters can rest assured that we will only propose closure, or in the case of the David Livingstone Centre, relinquish management of a property, if it is absolutely necessary. "However the Trust is firm in its belief that doing nothing about the affects of the economic downturn is simply not an option. (BBC News -- UK)
Building a Portrait of a Lie in the Brain Mar 5, 2009
Indeed, the ability to fabricate, at least to some extent, is important for normal social interactions and the maintenance of a healthy state of mind [see Natural-Born Liars, by David Livingstone Smith; Scientific American Mind, Vol. 16, No. 2; June 2005. Nevertheless, law-enforcement officials and employers, among others, often want to know whether someone is lying either to cover up a crime or to simply make himself or herself look better. (Scientific American)
Finding the lost city Feb 22, 2009
Fawcett, who was born during the Victorian age of exploration, had trained as a surveyor at the Royal Geographical Society in London, the same place that had helped launch such explorers as Richard Burton and David Livingstone. In 1906, after serving as a British secret agent in Africa, Fawcett had been recruited by Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru to map the interior of the Amazon. (Boston Globe)
Ghana: Celebrating the Afrikan Woman (1) Feb 14, 2009
In 1860 the Scottish missionary David Livingstone reached the old Portuguese stronghold of Luanda. Bare stairs, cells and shackles told of the horrifying recent history here. (allAfrica.com)
