Exploration
- Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland begin a five-year exploration of the natural history of South America.
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“The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
“Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.”
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“I call her old. She has one family
Whose claim is good to being settled here
Before the era of colonization,
And before that of exploration even.
John Smith remarked them as he coasted by....”
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