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Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Read by Ted Lienhart
Lyman Copeland Draper
The Wisconsin Historical Society was founded in 1846, even before Wisconsin achieved U.S. statehood. The Secretary, Lyman Draper, began in …
Deutsche Nordseeküste
Read by Claus Misfeldt
Hippolyt Haas
Der Geologe und Paläontologe Hippolyt Haas war seit 1888 Professor an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. In seinem Werk …
The Last Voyage of the Karluk
Read by Barry Eads
Robert Abram Bartlett
In August 1913, the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson’s Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–16, became trapped in the ice while saili…