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Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
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Henry Morton Stanley
Welsh journalist and explorer (1841–1904)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician famous for his exploration of Central Africa and search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Besides his discovery of Livingstone, he is mainly…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
David Livingstone
British colonialist and missionary to Africa (1813–1873)
David Livingstone was a Scottish doctor, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. Livingstone came…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Ujiji
National Historic Site of Tanzania
Ujiji is the oldest town in western Tanzania and is located in Kigoma-Ujiji District of Kigoma Region. Originally a Swahili settlement and then an Arab slave trading post by the mid-nineteenth century nominally under the Sultanate of Zanzibar, the town is the oldest in western…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Lake Tanganyika
Rift lake in east-central Africa
Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is the world's second-largest freshwater lake by volume and the second deepest, in both cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. The lake is shared among four countries—Tanzania, the Democratic…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
November 10
Day of the year
November 10 is the 314th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 51 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)