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Old 06-21-2015, 06:49 PM   #56 (permalink)
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Ok, thanks for the info.
Things that never happened:-
Strictly speaking, David Livingstone didn't discover the Victoria Falls. The local Africans had known it was there all the time. When they took him to see Mosi-oa-Tunya ("the smoke that thunders"), he just renamed it and spread its fame elsewhere. To my mind, that's not discovering in the true sense, the way Madam Curie discovered radium.
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