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Speke

American  
[speek] / spik /

noun

  1. John Hanning 1827–64, English explorer in Africa.


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"Speke Hall offers a unique insight into Liverpool, Tudor and Victorian society and the Billiard Room is one of the key areas of interest within the historic mansion," he added.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2023

Mr Green said: "We have seen that work really, really successfully in places like Speke, Croxteth, Norris Green, and parts of Liverpool 8."

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2023

Burton and Speke together reached the one that Europeans would call Lake Tanganyika, but only Speke glimpsed the other — Nyanza, a.k.a.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2022

“River of the Gods” is a lean, fast-paced account of the almost absurdly dangerous quest by those two friends turned enemies, Richard Burton and John Speke, to solve the geographic riddle of their era.

From New York Times • May 15, 2022

Speke was strongly convinced that here was the long-sought source of that most mysterious of rivers, the Nile.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.