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1863) 1905 Élisée Reclus, French geographer and author (b.

1878) 1968 Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (b.

1928) 1977 Karl Ristikivi, Estonian geographer, author, and poet (b.

1887) 1973 Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (b.

His younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, was famous as a geographer, naturalist, and explorer.

1904) September 24 Josué de Castro, Brazilian writer, physician, geographer and activist against hunger (b.

Heinrich Harrer ( 6 July 1912 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author.

Yi Fu Tuan (Traditional Chinese 段義孚, born 5 December 1930) is a Chinese U.S. geographer.

Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen (5 May 1833 6 October 1905) was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist.

Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist.

4th century BC), was a Greek geographer and explorer from the Greek colony of Massalia (modern day Marseille).

It was George Kimble, the geographer, who said that, The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.

A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.

There is a well known painting by Johannes Vermeer titled The Geographer , which is often linked to Vermeer's The Astronomer .

Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (December 6, 1869 June 2, 1928) was a Finnish and Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer.

Wladimir Peter Köppen (, Vladimir Petrovich Kyoppen ) (September 25, 1846 June 22, 1940) was a German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist.

What got you to be, at the same time, a mechanical engineer, a geographer and a mathematician and so on, a physicist?

Xavier Muñoz, geographer and president of the Caué Amigos (Caué Friends) Association of S.Tomé e Príncipe based in Barcelona, wrote in 2008

Fleury gave the king an excellent education, and the king was also taught by renowned professors such as the geographer Guillaume Delisle.

Élisée Reclus ( 15 March 1830 4 July 1905), also known as Jacques Élisée Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist.

The geographer Yaqut al Hamawi expressed the traditional hypothesis that the name is an alternate Arabic feminine version of karbalah soft earth .

Geographer João Humberto Camelini from the Brazilian State University at Campinas analyzed the case in an interview on the website Instituto Humanitas Unisinos

Mamluk rule In 1226, Arab geographer Yaqut al Hamawi said of Jericho, it has many palm trees, also sugarcane in quantities, and bananas.

The earliest recorded mention of Dubai is in 1095 in the Book of Geography by the Andalusian Arab geographer Abu Abdullah al Bakri.

Al Maqdisi, the Arab geographer, wrote in 985 that, the water of Jericho is held to be the highest and best in all Islam.

Pliny, also a geographer, located them in the desert near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.

However, this great geographer also contributed to the Paleogeography through his work The climates of the geological past which is considered the father of Paleoclimatology.

Alfred Weber (30 July 1868 2 May 1958) was a German economist, geographer, sociologist and theoretician of culture whose work was influential in the development of modern economic geography.

Obotrite confederation The Bavarian Geographer, an anonymous medieval document compiled in Regensburg in 830, contains a list of the tribes in Central Eastern Europe to the east of the Elbe.

According to geographer and Cuban Comandante Antonio Núñez Jiménez, 75 of Cuba s best arable land was owned by foreign individuals or foreign (mostly American) companies at the time of the revolution.

Piri Reis ( or Muhyiddin Pîrî Bey also known as Hacı Ahmed Muhi Aldin Piri Reis being a military rank) was an Ottoman admiral, geographer, and cartographer born between 1465 and 1470.

Geographer and São Paulo based blogger Martina Sanchez concluded that Brazilians need to understand that nature follows its course, its cycles and phases, and the only alternative left for humans is to adapt

José Maria da Silva Paranhos, Jr., Baron of Rio Branco (April 20, 1845 February 10, 1912) was a Brazilian diplomat, geographer, historian, monarchist, politician and professor, considered to be the father of Brazilian diplomacy .

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt ( September 14, 1769 May 6, 1859) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 1835).

Friedrich Ratzel (August 30, 1844, Karlsruhe, Baden August 9, 1904, Ammerland) was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term Lebensraum ( living space ) in the sense that the National Socialists later would.

The early days of the Islamic era saw the construction of the city of Ayla, which was described by the geographer Shams Eddin Muqaddasi as being next to the true settlement, which was lying in ruins close by.

Teodoro Sampaio may refer to Teodoro Fernandes Sampaio (1855 1937), Brazilian engineer, geographer and historiographer Teodoro Sampaio, Bahia, a municipality in the state of Bahia, Brazil Teodoro Sampaio, São Paulo, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

The problem of redefining Europe was finally resolved in 1730 when, instead of waterways, the Swedish geographer and cartographer von Strahlenberg proposed the Ural Mountains as the most significant eastern boundary, a suggestion that found favour in Russia and throughout Europe.

The literary critic Fredric Jameson and the geographer David Harvey have identified postmodernity with late capitalism or flexible accumulation , a stage of capitalism following finance capitalism, characterised by highly mobile labor and capital and what Harvey called time and space compression .

For geographer Eli Alvez Penha, author of the book, Relações Brasil África e Geopolítica do Atlântico ( Brazil Africa Relations and the Geopolitics of the Atlantic ), the ecological and cultural similarities means there is a good ecological match between Brazil and the African continent.

In the 1530s, the geographer Zeigler of Strasbourg proposed the theory that the creatures fell out of the sky during stormy weather (also featured in the folklore of the Inupiat Yupik at Norton Sound), and then died suddenly when the grass grew in spring.

It is the work of the famous geographer William Morris Davis who not only made important contributions to the establishment of discipline in his country, but revolutionized the field to develop geographical cycle theory which he proposed as a paradigm for Geography in general, although in actually served as a paradigm for Physical Geography.

Among the foreign scholars invited to work at the academy were the mathematicians Leonhard Euler, Anders Johan Lexell, Christian Goldbach, Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, Nicholas and Daniel Bernoulli, botanist Johann Georg Gmelin, embryologists Caspar Friedrich Wolff, astronomer and geographer Joseph Nicolas Delisle, physicist Georg Wolfgang Kraft, historian Gerhard Friedrich Müller and English Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.

In 1467, Huerter returned to Faial on a new expedition, supported by the Duchess, who ordered men and women of all conditions, as well as priests to convey their religious orders, in addition to ships loaded with furniture and utensils necessary for the land and construction of houses, and she sent them for two years, everything they cared for subsistence (as quoted by German geographer, Martin Behaim in his text Globo de Nuremberga).