Speke
Americannoun
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Anyone who was driving in the area near Speke Road on Tuesday and may have dashcam footage relevant to the investigation has also been urged to contact police.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
The terraced home on Upton Green, Speke, is now an Airbnb and is owned by Ken Lambert, who got in touch with the museum.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2024
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
And now she conceived the idea of competing for the suffrages of posterity with Burton and Livingstone, Speke and Baker.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
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