Speke
Americannoun
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Middlefield Primary in Speke, Liverpool, opened after the local authority entered a PFI agreement for new school buildings.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2024
The Billiard Room at Liverpool's Speke Hall hosted some leading lights when they visited between 1867 and 1877.
From BBC • Jul. 5, 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
The water he named Speke Bay is on the northeastern side, and where he crossed it about twelve miles wide.
From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler
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