In the long history of religion there have been many pairs of unlikely friends and rivals. One thinks of David and Saul, Peter and Paul, Saints Dominic and Francis. This occurs in modern times also, ...
ON MONDAY, September 5, 1831, Robert FitzRoy was exactly twenty-six years and two months old. Young as he was, he had been in His Majesty’s Navy for twelve years, and before that in the Royal Naval ...
In 1831, the British Royal Navy charged a 26-year-old officer named Robert FitzRoy with the difficult but vital task of charting coastlines around South America, the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean ...
Charles Darwin and his captain Robert Fitzroy witnessed the great earthquake of 1835 in south central Chile. The "Beagle"-Captain's precise measurements showed an uplift of the island Isla Santa María ...
People have been talking about the weather since time immemorial, but it wasn’t until August 1, 1861 that someone finally decided to put his daily predictions into writing. And here’s the really crazy ...
Robert FitzRoy was one of the most gifted naval officers of his or any generation, a brilliant seaman, surveyor and commander of men, and a technical innovator who in different circumstances might ...
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