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See also:PRJEVALSKY [PRZHEVALSKY], NIKOLAI MIKHAILOVICH (1839–1888) , See also:Russian traveller, See also:born at Kimbory, in the See also:government of See also:Smolensk, on the 31st of See also:March 1839, was descended from a See also:noble Cossack See also:family. He was educated at the Smolensk gymnasium, and in 1855 entered an See also:infantry See also:regiment as a subaltern. In See also:November 1856 he became an officer, and four years later he entered the See also:academy of the See also:general See also:staff. From 1864 to 1866 he taught See also:geography at the military school at See also:Warsaw, and in 1867 he was admitted to the general staff and sent to See also:Irkutsk, where he started to explore the See also:highlands on the See also:banks of the Usuri, the See also:great See also:southern tributary of the See also:Amur. This occupied him until 1869, when he published a See also:book on the Usuri region, partly ethnographical in See also:character. Between November 187o and See also:September 1873, accompanied by only three men and with ridiculously small pecuniary re-See also:sources, he crossed the See also:Gobi See also:desert, reached See also:Peking, and, pushing westwards and See also:south-westwards, explored the Ordos and the See also:Ala-shan, as well as the upper See also:part of the Yangtsze-kiang. He also penetrated into See also:Tibet, reaching the banks of the Di Chu See also:river. By this remarkable See also:journey he proved that, for resolute and enduring men, travelling in the Central Asian plateaus was easier than had been supposed. The Russian See also:Geographical Society presented him with the great See also:Constantine See also:medal, and from all parts of See also:Europe he received medals and honorary diplomas. The See also:work in which he embodied his researches was immediately translated into all civilized See also:languages, the See also:English version, See also:Mongolia, the Tangut See also:Country, and the Solitudes of See also:Northern Tibet (1876), being edited by See also:Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Yule. On his second journey in 1877, while endeavouring to reach See also:Lhasa through See also:east See also:Turkestan, he re-discovered the great See also:lake Lop-nor (q.v.), which had not been visited by any See also:European since Marco See also:Polo. On his third expedition in 1879-188o he penetrated, by See also:Hami, the Tsai-See also:dam and the great valley of the Tibetan river Kara-su, to Napchu, 170 M. from Lhasa, when he was turned back by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the Dalai Lama. In 1883–1885 he undertook a See also:fourth journey of exploration in the See also:wild See also:mountain regions between Mongolia and Tibet. On these four expeditions he made collections of See also:plants and animals of inestimable value, including nearly twenty thousand zoological and sixteen thousand botanical specimens. Among other remarkable discoveries were those of the wild See also:camel, ancestor of the domesticated See also:species, and of the See also:early type of See also:horse, now known by his name (Equus prjewalskii). Prjevalsky's See also:account of his second journey, From See also:Kulja, across the Tian-Shan, to Lop-nor, was translated into English in 1879. In September 1888 he started on a fifth expedition, intending to reach Lhasa, but on the 1st of November he died at Karakol on Lake Issyk-kul. A See also:monument was erected to his memory on the shores of the lake, and the Russian government changed the name of the See also:town of Karakol to See also:Przhevalsk (q.v.) in his See also:honour.
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