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Speke

American  
[speek] / spik /

noun

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


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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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