"The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre……" — John Hanning Speke
"The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion."
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11 Quotes by John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Speke has 11 quotes on this site.
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Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are…
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The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.
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So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his…
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I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as…
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Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in…
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Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.
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I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse,…
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In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the…
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My first occupation was to map the country.
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The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in…
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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand…
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The blood corpuscles take up the atmospheric oxygen in the lungs, and the vital chemical process accordingly depends essentially on…
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The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.
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I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric…
— Michael Myers
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The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has changed greatly since fossilized life began on Earth nearly 600 million years ago.…
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This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that…
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Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised
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If every UFO report could be convincingly credited to some conventional astronomical or atmospheric phenomenon, there would be no UFO…
— Don Berliner
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Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric…
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