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Mountains of the Moon is a 1990 American biographical film depicting the 1857–1858 journey of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke in their expedition to Central Africa, which culminated in Speke's discovery of the source of the Nile River and led to a bitter rivalry between the two men. The film stars Patrick Bergin as Burton and ...
Richard Burton. Actor: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Probably best-remembered for his turbulent personal life with Elizabeth Taylor (whom he married twice), Richard Burton was nonetheless also regarded as an often brilliant British actor of the post-WWII period. Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in 1925 into a Welsh (Cymraeg)-speaking family in Pontrhydyfen to Edith Maude (Thomas) and ...
Cavalerul comandant al ordinului Sf. Mihail și Sf. Gheorghe [*] Sir Richard Francis Burton (n. 19 martie 1821, Torquay, Anglia, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei – d. 20 octombrie 1890, Trieste, Austro-Ungaria) a fost un diplomat explorator, lingvist, orientalist, scriitor, traducător și soldat englez.
Richard Burton. Richard Walter Burton CBE (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh stage and cinema actor. He appeared in more than 40 movies and received 7 Academy Award nominations. He was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. In the mid-1960s, Burton went up into the ranks of the top box office stars [1 ...
The Kasidah. The Kasidah, book-binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1880) is a long English language poem written by "Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî", a pseudonym of the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), a well-known British Arabist and explorer. In a note to the reader, Burton claims to be the ...
During the 19th and 20th centuries, Manuscript 512 was the object of intense debate and instigated many expeditions by adventurers and investigators, notably Sir Richard F. Burton, who published the work Highlands of Brazil in 1869, and Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, who disappeared on one of his "Lost City of Z" expeditions through inner ...
Richard Francis Burton. Sir Richard Burton vanhemmalla iällä. Richard Francis Burton ( 19. maaliskuuta 1821 Torquay, Englanti – 20. lokakuuta 1890 Trieste, Itävalta-Unkari) oli brittiläinen tutkimusmatkailija, kulttuuriantropologi, kielitieteilijä ja kääntäjä, sotilas sekä diplomaatti .
