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Paris Las Vegas
Paris Las Vegas in 2010
Location
Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
Address
3655 South Las Vegas Boulevard
Opening date
September 1, 1999; 18 years ago (1999-09-01)
Theme
Paris, France
No. of rooms
2,916
Total gaming space
95,263 sq ft (8,850.2 m2)
Signature attractions
Risqué de Paris
Eiffel Tower Experience
Notable restaurants
Eiffel Tower Restaurant
Mon Ami Gabi
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
Jean Joho
Owner
Caesars Entertainment Corporation
Renovated in
2010, 2011
Coordinates
36°06′45″N 115°10′20″W / 36.1125°N 115.1722°W / 36.1125; -115.1722Coordinates: 36°06′45″N 115°10′20″W / 36.1125°N 115.1722°W / 36.1125; -115.1722
Website
caesars.com/paris-las-vegas
Paris Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corporation.
The theme is the city of Paris, France; it includes a half scale, 540-foot (164.6 m) tall replica of the Eiffel Tower,[1] a sign in the shape of the Montgolfier balloon, a two-thirds size Arc de Triomphe, a replica of La Fontaine des Mers, and a 1,200-seat theatre called Le Théâtre des Arts. The front of the hotel suggests the Paris Opera House and the Louvre.
The Paris is linked via a promenade to its sister property, Bally's Las Vegas, through which it is linked to the Las Vegas Monorail at the Bally's & Paris station.
Contents
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1 History
2 Film history
2.1 Films
3 Gallery
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
In May 1995, Bally Entertainment, owner of the adjacent Bally's Las Vegas, announced the projects at a shareholders meeting. Paris was designed by architectural companies Leidenfrost/Horowitz & Assoc., Bergman, Walls & Assoc. and MBH Architects. The design architect of the project was Bergman Walls Associates. Herbert Horowitz, Partner of Leidenfrost/Horowitz & Assoc., was executive architect and signed all plans.
Bally broke ground for the Paris Las Vegas on April 18, 1997, and construction began in May on the 24 acres (9.7 ha) parcel. It was built at an estimated cost of $760 million. Original plans for the Eiffel Tower called for a full-scale replica, however that would have interfered with the nearby McCarran Airport and designers therefore reduced it to approximately 1:2 scale. The hotel is 33 stories tall. A unique architectural aspect of the Paris is that the back legs of its Eiffel Tower actually come down through the ceiling into the casino floor.
Paris Las Vegas opened on September 1, 1999, with fireworks being shot from the Eiffel Tower. French actress Catherine Deneuve flipped a switch, turning on all of Paris' lights, including the various crystal chandeliers in the main lobby.
On January 31, 2007, Paris Las Vegas premiered its new show The Producers, headlined by David Hasselhoff. There were reports of friction between the show's producers and Hasselhoff and he announced he would leave May 6 due to other commitments.[2] The Producers refocused on Max, played by Tony Danza. Danza came on as the celebrity actor for the show until The Producers closed on February 9, 2008. Barry Manilow has headlined at the Paris since March 6, 2010.
To counter the 2008–2009 economic downturn, Harrah's focused on marketing its properties to specific segments of the population; as a result Paris is being marketed heavily towards gay and lesbian travelers.[3]
Beginning in 2010, Caesars Entertainment Corporation has begun a series of improvement projects that will see some removal of the Parisian theme. Caesars is beginning to phase out the French greeters around the property, and in early 2010 begun a major remodel project at the front entrance. The project debuted in Spring 2011 and includes a new nightclub dubbed 'Chateau' and the largest Sugar Factory store on the Strip. It was announced in early December 2010 that the hotel's famous steakhouse Les Artisies would close at the end of January 2011 to make way for Gordon Ramsay Steak. The controversial[citation needed] icon's restaurant opened in June 2011.
The Chateau nightclub opened in early March, 2011[4]. The nightclub overlooks the Strip and spans more than 45,000 square feet (4,200 m2) in a two-story, outdoor setting. Outside, guests will find a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) terrace overlooking the Strip with VIP cabanas and three additional bars. During the day, the terrace will serve as a beer garden and restaurant, opening at 10 a.m.[5]
In 2015, Hexx Kitchen & Bar and Hexx Chocolate & Confexxions was opened in the space formerly occupied by the Sugar Factory. Hexx is the first "bean-to-bar" chocolate maker in Nevada.[6]
In 2016, Beer Park by Budweiser opened on a 10,000-square-foot (930 m²) deck overlooking the Las Vegas Strip. It is Las Vegas' first rooftop bar and grill.[7]
Film history[edit]
Films[edit]
In the 2006 miniseries 10.5: Apocalypse, Paris is seen sinking in a massive sinkhole caused by acidic water undermining the underground limestone (barring the Eiffel Tower replica, which collapses while it sinks) along with the rest of the city.
In the 2007 film Resident Evil: Extinction, Paris is seen buried in sand, along with the rest of Las Vegas, several years after a zombie apocalypse. One of the characters climbs the Eiffel Tower replica to escape a horde of zombies.
Lester Nygaard (Fargo) got Insurance Salesman of the Year 2007 Prix there.
In the 2009 film 2012, Paris, along with the rest of The Strip, is destroyed.
In the 2010 animated film Despicable Me, Gru is shown to have stolen the Eiffel Tower replica along with the Statue of Liberty replica from the New York-New York Hotel and Casino.
The Eiffel Tower replica is destroyed by the female MUTO in the 2014 film Godzilla.
Gallery[edit]
Paris Las Vegas in 2006
Panoramic of Las Vegas from the Paris hotel, showing the Bellagio fountain, Eiffel tower at Paris hotel and Caesars Palace in 2006
Paris Las Vegas from across Las Vegas Boulevard in 2006
Paris Las Vegas in 2006
Tower at night in 2009
Paris Las Vegas and Bellagio Fountain show in 2010
Le Boulevard interior in 2012
Interior near gaming floor in 2012
Panoramic image taken from Bellagio, left to right, Flamingo, Bally's, Paris Las Vegas in 2012
Eiffel Tower replica over Paris Las Vegas in 2014
See also[edit]
List of Caesars Entertainment properties
List of casinos in Nevada
References[edit]
Jump up ^ https://skyscrapercenter.com/building/eiffel-tower-paris-las-vegas/14040
Jump up ^ Clarke, Norm (April 10, 2007). "Hasselhoff leaving 'The Producers'". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Jump up ^ Arnold M. Knightly, Nevadan at work: Executive Wants To Ensure Hotel Guests Get Social Cachet For Their Cash, Las Vegas Review-Journal, February 22, 2009, Accessed February 25, 2009.
Jump up ^ "Chateau impresses in star-studded grand opening". Las Vegas Blogs. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
Jump up ^ Amanda Finnegan. "Details released on new Chateau nightclub at Paris Las Vegas". LasVegasSun.com.
Jump up ^ HEIDI KNAPP RINELLA LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL. "Food specialty stores give shoppers close-up experience". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Jump up ^ "Beer Park by Budweiser". Food & Beverage Magazine. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
External links[edit]
Las Vegas portal
Official website
Media related to Paris Las Vegas at Wikimedia Commons
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"Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner" is the seventh episode of the second season of the American mystery television series Veronica Mars, and the twenty-ninth episode overall. Written by Diane Ruggiero and directed by Nick Marck, the episode premiered on UPN on November 16, 2005.
The series depicts the adventures of Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) as she deals with life as a high school student while moonlighting as a private detective. In this episode, Duncan (Teddy Dunn) calls on Veronica to help investigate a subject of child abuse mentioned in his ex-girlfriend, Meg's (Alona Tal) journal. Meanwhile, the Casablancas family splits up Dick Sr.'s (David Starzyk) assets.
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Synopsis[edit]
Veronica and Duncan make out before Logan (Jason Dohring), who is now living there, walks in the door. Logan invites Kendall (Charisma Carpenter) into the hotel room, making Duncan and Veronica uncomfortable. In a Future Business Leaders of America meeting, Cassidy (Kyle Gallner) comes out on top of the hypothetical business contest. Keith talks to new mayor Woody Goodman (Steve Guttenberg), who states his plan to redesign Neptune, and Woody offers to make Keith police chief. Logan meets Veronica in the girls bathroom and asks her to investigate the “witness” to the murder of Felix Toombs, and she agrees. Duncan has searched through Meg’s files and finds evidence that she was attempting to help an unknown abused child between 7-10 years old. Meg babysat constantly, and Veronica and Duncan will have to break into Meg’s house for more evidence.
The Casablancas talk to a lawyer. Kendall has received nothing, and Dick (Ryan Hansen) and Beaver each have a trust fund. Veronica signs up for a babysitting job with one of the people who Meg babysat for, and Gia (Krysten Ritter) invites Veronica over to school. At the babysitting job, the kid’s parents say that they almost let Meg go because of Duncan. Logan appears at the door of Veronica’s babysitting house. Veronica presents information on Logan’s accuser. The boy, Edwin’s, dad starts acting weirdly towards Veronica and hands her Edwin’s drawing of a head coming off a body.
Dick and Beaver’s biological mother appears at their house. Veronica wins the babysitting job from a high-pressure teacher. However, her son is bratty and high-maintenance. Veronica talks to Logan’s witness, Dr. Griffith (Rick Peters), who is a plastic surgeon. Although he seems honest at first, Veronica trails him to a cigar shop. Veronica sees all the signs of emotional abuse when she goes to Gia’s house. Gia “surprises” Veronica with a girl’s night sleepover. Logan ends his friends-with-benefits relationship with Kendall. Kendall tries to seduce Duncan. Veronica meets Gia’s little brother, Rodney, who is extremely anxious. Veronica overhears Woody telling Rodney that he’ll have to tell his mother about him spilling a cup of water on the floor, and the mother leads Rodney to an unknown room. Dick and Beaver, drunk, raid Gia’s sleepover.
Veronica learns from Keith (Enrico Colantoni) that the cigar shop she went into is notorious for drug dealing. Logan tells Veronica that Kendall went into Duncan’s room for a little while. Veronica and Duncan break into Meg’s house. Duncan steals a letter without showing Veronica. Veronica figures out that Meg is actually covering for the child abuse of her sister. Veronica finds Grace Manning locked in a closet. However, Meg’s dad (Geoff Pierson) goes in and fakes that Veronica and Duncan were just breaking in for no reason. Sheriff Lamb (Michael Muhney) arrests Veronica and Duncan but soon figures out that Meg’s dad is the guilty one. After briefly driving away with Veronica and Duncan, he soon lets them go and waits menacingly outside of Meg’s father’s house.
Cultural references[edit]
Many cultural references are made in the episode. They include:[1]
At the beginning of the episode, Veronica and Duncan are watching The Big Lebowski.
Mr. Pope references "What a Diff'rence a Day Made".
Veronica mentions both "Twist and Shout" and a famous scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
One of the teachers quotes the song "The Gambler".
In an email to Wallace, Veronica quotes a famous Juliet monologue.
In a voiceover, Veronica compares her letters to Wallace to Doogie Howser's journal.
Dick and Beaver's biological mother quotes a lyric from "You've Got a Friend".
Gia references "I'm So Excited".
Veronica says that her "Spidey sense is tingling."
Logan quotes part of the iconic line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", spoken by Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind.
One of the girls at the party says that Pretty Woman is her favorite movie.
Dick and Beaver expect there to be Spin the bottle at the party.
Veronica jokingly mentions Winnie-the-Pooh and Goodnight Moon.
Arc significance[edit]
The newly discovered witness to Felix's murder is Dr. Tom Griffith, a plastic surgeon. Logan asks Veronica to prove that Griffith is lying and says that he wasn't the man on the bridge.
Woody Goodman tells Keith of his plan for Neptune, which involves incorporating the wealthy part of the town.
Dick and Beaver's real mother shows up to unlock their trust funds.
Duncan finds a letter in the vent in Meg's room and pockets it.
Sheriff Lamb hints that he was abused by his own father; this is, presumably, his reason for letting Duncan and Veronica go and then returning to the Manning residence. This also marks one of the few times that he immediately takes Veronica seriously when she reports a crime. When cuffing her, he leans forward, to show that he wants her to whisper something in his ear. She then tells him where to look for the secret room.
Music[edit]
The following songs are heard in the episode:[2]
"Pon de Replay" by Rihanna
"The Nth Degree" by Morningwood
"Run" by Air
Production[edit]
Diane Ruggiero wrote the episode.
The episode was written by Diane Ruggiero and directed by Nick Marck, marking Ruggiero's ninth writing credit for Veronica Mars and Marck's sixth directing credit for the show. [3][4] Despite being credited, Weevil (Francis Capra), Wallace, and Jackie (Tessa Thompson) do not appear in "Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner." Among the episode's guest stars are important recurring characters, including Don Lamb (Michael Muhney), Gia Goodman (Krysten Ritter), Woody Goodman (Steve Guttenberg), and Kendall Casablancas (Charisma Carpenter). Ritter noted that her scene in the episode was one of the favorite scenes she filmed."[5] The episode's title refers to a famous line spoken by the character Johnny (Patrick Swayze) in the 1987 coming-of-age romantic drama Dirty Dancing.
Reception[edit]
Ratings[edit]
In its original broadcast, "Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner" received 2.94 million viewers, marking a decrease from "Rat Saw God".[6]
Reviews[edit]
Rowan Kaiser, writing for The A.V. Club thought that the episode was quirky, especially in the scenes involving Veronica's babysitting. On the episode's tone, he added, "And this is fine. This is great, even. Combined with things like Veronica's vision of Lilly in the season premiere, it makes me think that Veronica Mars is moving in a much more metaphorical direction."[7] Television Without Pity gave the episode a "B".[8]
Price Peterson of TV.com gave a glowing review, writing that "Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner" was "[a]nother great episode, with its perfect blend of teenage awfulness (the slumber party), [and] Neptune's seedy underbelly…I mean, what's not to like? But really, the closing sequence in which Lamb arrested and then set free Veronica and Duncan was incredible. One of the more subtle and powerful moments I've seen on any TV show in a while."[9]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner Cultural References". Mars Investigations: The (In)Complete Guide to Veronica Mars. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
Jump up ^ "The Music Of Veronica Mars: Episode 2-7: Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner". Mars Investigations: The (In)Complete Guide to Veronica Mars. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Diane Ruggiero". TV.com. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Nick Marck". TV.com. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Krysten Ritter (Gia Goodman) Interview". MI.net. September 9, 2006. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. November 22, 2005. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
Jump up ^ Kaiser, Rowan (December 2, 2011). "Review: Veronica Mars: "Rat Saw God" / "Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner"". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Veronica Mars Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner Recap". Television Without Pity. November 15, 2005. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
Jump up ^ Peterson, Price (June 30, 2012). "The Veronica Mars Season 2 Dossier: Episodes 5-8". TV.com. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
External links[edit]
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John Hanning Speke
Born
(1827-05-04)4 May 1827
Bideford, Devon, England
Died
15 September 1864(1864-09-15) (aged 37)
Neston Park, Wiltshire, England
Occupation
Military officer and explorer
Arms of John Hanning Speke (1827-1864): Argent, two bars azure overall an eagle with two heads displayed gules (Speke of Whitelackington) with honourable augmentation a chief azure thereon a representation of flowing water proper superinscribed with the word "Nile" in letters gold[1]
John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was the first European to reach Lake Victoria. He is also known for propounding the Hamitic hypothesis in 1863, in which he supposed that the Tutsi ethnic group were descendants of the biblical figure Ham, and had lighter skin and more "European" features than the Bantu-featured Hutu over whom they ruled.[2][3]
Contents
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1 Life
2 Search for the Nile source 1856–1859
2.1 Speke's travels to Lake Victoria
2.2 Return to England and debate over the source of the Nile
3 Second journey to the source of the Nile, 1860-1864
4 Return to London and third expedition
5 Death
6 The source of the Nile is settled, 1874–1877
6.1 Scientific works
7 Eponyms
8 Film
9 Biographies, books and articles about Speke
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
Life[edit]
Speke was born on 4 May 1827 at Orleigh Court,[4] Buckland Brewer, near Bideford, North Devon.[5] In 1844 he was commissioned into the British Army and posted to India, where he served under Sir Colin Campbell during the First Anglo-Sikh War. He spent his leave exploring the Himalayan Mountains and Mount Everest and once crossed into Tibet.
In 1854 he made his first voyage to Africa, first arriving in Aden to ask permission of the Political Resident of this British Outpost to cross the Gulf of Aden and collect specimens in Somaliland for his family's natural history museum in Somerset.[6] This was refused as Somaliland was considered rather dangerous. Speke then asked to join an expedition about to leave for Somaliland led by the already famous Richard Burton who had Lt William Stroyan and Lt. Herne recruited to come along but a recent death left the expedition one person short. Speke was accepted because he had traveled in remote regions alone before, had experience collecting and preserving natural history specimens and had done astronomical surveying. Initially the party split with Burton going to Harrar, Abyssinia, and Speke going to Wadi Nogal in Somaliland . During this trip Speke experienced trouble with the local guide who cheated him and after they returned to Aden, Burton who had also returned, saw that the guide was punished and jailed. This incident probably led to larger troubles later on.[6] Now all 4 men traveled to Berbera on the coast of Somaliland from where they wanted to trek inland towards the Ogaden. While camped outside Berbera they were attacked at night by 200 spear wielding Somalis.[6] During this fracas Speke ducked under the flap of a tent to get a clearer view of the scene and Burton thought he was retreating and called for Speke to stand firm. Speke did so and then charged forward with great courage shooting several attackers. The misunderstanding of this incident laid the foundation of their disputes and dislikes much later. Stroyan was killed by a spear, Burton was seriously wounded by a javelin impaling both cheeks and Speke was wounded and the only one captured, Herne came away unwounded. Speke was tied up and stabbed several times with spears, one thrust cutting through his thigh along his femur and exiting. Showing tremendous determination he used his bound fists to give his attacker a facial punch and this gave Speke an opportunity to escape,[6] albeit he was followed by a group of Somalis and he had to dodge spears as he was running for his life. Rejoining Burton and Herne the trio eventually managed to escape with a boat passing along the coast. The expedition was a severe financial loss and Speke's natural history specimens from his earlier leg were used to make up for some of it. Speke handed Burton his diaries that Burton used as an appendix in his own book on his travels to Harrar. It seemed unlikely that the two would join again and Burton believed that he would not lead an expedition to the interior of Africa, his fervent hope, after this failed journey.[6]
Search for the Nile source 1856–1859[edit]
Routes taken by the expeditions of Burton and Speke (1857–1858) and Speke and Grant (1863)
In 1856, Speke and Burton went to East Africa to find the Great Lakes, which were rumored to exist in the center of the continent. It was hoped that the expedition would locate the source of the Nile. The journey, which started from Zanzibar Island in June 1857, was extremely strenuous and both men fell ill from a variety of tropical diseases once they went inland. By 7 November 1857 they had traveled over 600 miles on foot and donkey and they reached Kazeh (Tabora), where they rested and recuperated among Arab slave traders who had a settlement there. In Kazeh Burton became gravely ill and Speke went temporarily blind as they travelled further west.[6] After an arduous journey, the two arrived in Ujiji in February 1858 and became the first Europeans to reach Lake Tanganyika (although Speke was partially blind at this point and could not properly see the lake).[6] They decided to explore the lake but it was vast and they only could get small canoes from the locals. Burton was too ill to journey and thus Speke crossed the lake with a small crew and some canoes to try to rent a larger vessel from an Arab who, they were told, had a large boat and lived on the west side of the lake.[6] (Lake Tanganyika is over 400 miles long on the north-south axis but only about 30 miles wide.) During this trip Speke, marooned on an island, suffered severely when he became temporarily deaf after a beetle crawled into his ear and he tried to remove it with a knife. Unable to rent the larger vessel from the Arab, Speke returned. The pair were unable to explore Lake Tanganyika properly and they initially misunderstood that a river flowed out of it from the north side. A few weeks later Sidi Mubarak Bombay confirmed via locals that the river flowed into the lake; however, since neither man actually saw this river, this remained a source of speculation.[6]
Speke's travels to Lake Victoria[edit]
They had also heard of a second lake to the north-east, and in May 1858, they decided to explore it on the way back to the coast. But Burton was too weak to make the trip and thus stayed in base camp when the main caravan halted again at Kazeh.[6] Speke went on a 47-day side trip that was 452 miles up and down in which he took 34 men with Bombay and Mabruki as his captains[6] and on 30 July 1858 became the first European to see Lake Victoria and the first to map it.[7] It was this lake that eventually proved to be the source of the River Nile. However, much of the expedition's survey equipment had been lost at this point and thus vital questions about the height and extent of the lake could not be answered easily. Speke's eyes were still bothering him and he only saw a small part of the southern end of the lake and his view was blocked by islands in the lake so he could not judge the size of the lake well. However, Speke did estimate the elevation of Lake Victoria at 4000 feet by observing the temperature at which water boiled at that level.[6] (This lake's being substantially higher than Lake Tanganyika did make it a more likely candidate for the source of the Nile.[citation needed])
From the beginning, the relationship of Speke and Burton was one of opposites; Burton considered Speke inferior linguistically and a less experienced traveler in remote regions (which was partially true) but Burton himself appears to have been jealous and far less able to relate to the safari caravan to keep the expedition motivated and moving (a vital factor as they were completely dependent on their safari crew).[6] While Speke enjoyed hunting and thus provided the caravan with meat, Burton was not much interested in such pursuits. Burton was appointed the head of the expedition and considered Speke the second in command, although the pair seemed to have shared the hardships and labors of the journey pretty much evenly. Once it became clear that Speke might have found the source of the Nile the relationship deteriorated further. Why Burton did not journey back to Lake Victoria with Speke to make a better reconnoitre of the Lake after Speke returned to base camp in Kazeh is unclear. Burton was incapacitated and had to be carried by bearers but this had been true for a great deal of the trip.[6]
While Speke and Burton were instrumental in bringing the source of the Nile to the wider world and were the first to record and map this section of Africa, the efforts and labors of Sidi Mubarak Bombay and Mabruki were instrumental in discovering the lake.[6] Bombay was captured as a child near Lake Nyasa by slave traders and was sold to Indian merchants on the coast of Africa who took him to Sindh.[6] Thus he spoke Hindustani and after his master's death he sailed back to Zanzibar where Speke and Burton met and hired him.[6] Both spoke Hindustani, which greatly facilitated the travel in the interior as Bombay spoke several native languages beside Swahili. Speke was much attached to Bombay and spoke highly of his honesty and conscientiousness. Bombay's efforts in dealing with hostile tribes, interpreting and keeping the safari crew on track was a great help to the expedition.[6] Less is known of Mabruki, the other caravan leader, but he was later known as Mabruki Speke,[6] and like Bombay became one of East Africa's great caravan leaders and was also a member of the Yao tribe like Bombay. Because of Speke's recommendations both Bombay and Mabruki served on Henry Stanley's 1871 expedition to find Livingstone.[6]
Return to England and debate over the source of the Nile[edit]
On 26 September 1859 the return journey from Kazeh was started with 152 porters; both men had to return as their military leaves were coming to and end although Jeal[6] contends that they could have extended the trip by asking for an extension as their clear mission statement of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) was to find the source of the Nile. The expedition had lost a great many people [6] through desertions, disease and hostilities but in Kazeh, on the return journey, Mabruki had recruited local porters. Again Speke and Burton suffered from severe illnesses and had to be carried in a litter (machilla) by the porters some of the way. Once Speke and Burton were back on the coast they went by ship to Zanzibar and then traveled to Aden. When back at the coast Burton had written a letter to Norton Shaw of the Royal Geographical Society (which had partially sponsored the journey) in which Burton enclosed a map of Lake Victoria made by Speke and wrote "there are grave reasons for believing it (the map) to be the source of the principal feeder of the White Nile."[6] Once in Aden, Burton was not granted a medical certificate to travel and thus Speke left on HMS Furious and arrived in England on 8 May 1859. Burton was not far behind and he arrived on 21 May 1859.
Now further disagreements developed; Burton maintained that they had promised each other in Aden not to make public announcements till they both were back in England and Burton accused Speke of a breach of promise by publicly claiming the source of the Nile was found on their trip. Burton now turned against the theory that Lake Victoria was the source of the Nile (and now said the river flowing out of the north side of Lake Tanganyika was the source) and thus also reversing himself from the position he took in the letter to Norton Shaw. In that same letter to Shaw, Burton had also stated that Speke would present his findings to the RGS as he was prevented from traveling as he was in poor health and would be in England a short time after Speke.[6] For a detailed discussion on this see pages 105–111 of Jeal's book.[6] Jeal concludes that Burton's claim of a promise from Speke to not go to the RGS was improbable. The jealousies and accusations between the two men got ever greater, further inflamed by their respective circles of friends and people who stood to gain from the feud such as book publishers and newspapers. Burton was still extremely weak and once he appeared in front of a committee of the RGS he was not able to make a convincing case for his leading a second expedition to settle the outstanding matters about the Nile. The rift widened, and perhaps became irreversible, when Speke was chosen to lead a subsequent expedition instead of Burton.[8] The two presented joint papers concerning the expedition to the Royal Geographical Society on 13 June 1859.[9]
Second journey to the source of the Nile, 1860-1864[edit]
Together with James Augustus Grant, Speke left Portsmouth on 27 April 1860 and departed from Zanzibar in October 1860. The expedition approached the lake from the south west but Grant was often sick and was not able to travel with Speke much of the time. As during the first trip, in this period of history, Arab slave traders had created an atmosphere of great distrust towards any foreigners entering central Africa, and most tribes either fled or fought when encountering them as they assumed all outsiders to be potential slavers.[6] Lacking a great deal of guns and soldiers, the only thing the expedition could do was make peace offerings to locals, and both men were severely delayed and their supplies depleted by demands for gifts and passage fees by smaller local chieftains. After numerous months of delays Speke reached Lake Victoria on 28 July 1862, and then travelled on the west side around Lake Victoria but only seeing it from time to time; but on the north side of the lake, Speke found the Nile flowing out of it and discovered the Ripon Falls.[6] Whilst being at the court of Muteesa I, the Kabaka (or King) of Buganda, the local kingdom, who treated Speke with kindness, he was given two girls of about 12 and 18 out of the entourage of the Queen Mother. Speke took a serious liking to the elder, Meri, whom he fell in love with, according to his diaries (which were redacted when they were published as books later).[6] While Meri proved loyal to Speke and fulfilled her task at being a "wife" as commanded by the Queen Mother, she showed no emotional attachment to Speke, and this left Speke heart-broken because he sought a relationship of mutual emotional feelings. Speke spent several months at the court of Mutesa and when he had given up winning Mere's heart, tried to arrange a better relationship for Mere with another man, without success it seems.[6] Finally, given permission by Mutesa in June 1862 to leave, Speke then travelled down the Nile now reunited with Grant. Because of travel restrictions placed by the local chieftains, slave raiding parties, tribal wars and the difficulty of the terrain, Speke was not able to map the entire flow of the Nile from Lake Victoria north. Why he did not make more efforts to do so is not clear, but the enormous hardships of the journey must have played a large role.[6] By January 1863 Speke and Grant reached Gondokoro in Southern Sudan, where he met Samuel Baker and his "wife". (Her name was Florence von Sass and she had been rescued by Baker from a slave market in Vidin during a hunting trip in Bulgaria.)[6] Speke had expected to meet John Petherick and his wife Katherine at Gondokoro, as they had been sent by the RGS south along the Nile to meet Speke and Grant.[6] However the Pethericks were not there but on a side expedition to trade ivory, as they had run out of funds for their expedition. This caused some hard feelings between Pethrick and Speke, and Baker played into this so he could assume a greater role as an explorer and co-discoverer of the Nile. Speke, via Baker's ship, then continued to Khartoum from which he sent a celebrated telegram to London: "The Nile is settled."[10] Speke's expedition did not resolve the issue, however. Burton claimed that because Speke had not followed the Nile from the place it flowed out of Lake Victoria to Gondokoro, he could not be sure they were the same river.[11] Baker and Florence, meanwhile, stayed in Gondokoro and tried to settle the flow of the river from there to Lake Victoria by travelling south. They eventually, after tremendous hardships, such as being racked by fevers and held up by rulers for months on end, found Lake Albert and the Murchison Falls.[12]
Return to London and third expedition[edit]
Speke and Grant now returned to England where they arrived in June 1863 and were welcomed as genuine heroes.[6] This did not last long in Speke’s case however; disputes with Burton, who was relentless in his criticisms and a very compelling public speaker and gifted writer, left Speke’s discoveries in less than an ideal light. Speke had also committed to write a book for John Blackwood which he found hard and time consuming as he was not naturally a gifted writer.[6] He failed to give a good and full report to the RGS for many months and thus in effect was not defending his positions of discovery. In addition Speke had a public dispute with the Pethericks who had by and large acted according to their RGS instructions but Speke had felt they had not.[6] All this led Roderick Murchison, president of the Royal Geographical Society, to start disliking Speke and a third expedition, led by Speke, was becoming less likely as it would have to be funded by the people Speke was now not on good terms with.[6] It appears that just as Burton had overplayed his hand after the first trip Speke now did the same. Now the RGS asked that a public debate should be held between Speke and Burton to try and settle the Nile.[6]
Death[edit]
A debate was planned between Speke and Burton before the geographical section of the British Association in Bath on 16 September 1864, but Speke had died the previous afternoon from a self-inflicted gunshot wound while shooting at Neston Park in Wiltshire.[13] A contemporary account of the events surrounding his death appeared in The Times:
Speke set out from his uncle's house in company with his cousin, George Fuller, and a gamekeeper, Daniel Davis, for an afternoon's shooting in Neston Park. He fired both barrels in the course of the afternoon and about 4 p.m. Davis was marking birds for the two guns who were about 60 yards apart. Speke was seen to climb onto a stone wall about 2 feet high: for the moment he was without his gun. A few seconds later there was a report and when George Fuller rushed up Speke's gun was found behind the wall in the field into which Speke had jumped. The right barrel was at half-cock: only the left barrel was discharged. Speke who was bleeding seriously was sensible for a few minutes and said feebly, "Don't move me." George Fuller went for assistance leaving Davis to attend him; but Speke survived for only about 15 minutes, and when Mr. Snow, surgeon of Box, arrived he was already dead. There was a single wound in his left side such as would be made by a cartridge if the muzzle of the gun—a Lancaster breech-loader without a safety guard—were close to the body; the charge had passed upwards through the lungs dividing all the large blood vessels over the heart, though missing the heart itself.
An inquest concluded that the death was accidental, a conclusion supported by his only biographer Tim Jeal,[6] though the idea of suicide has appealed to some.[14] Bearing in mind, however, that the fatal wound was just below Speke's armpit, suicide seems most unlikely. Burton, however, could not set aside his own strong dislike of Speke and was vocal in spreading the idea of a suicide, claiming that Speke feared the debate.[6] Speke was buried in Dowlish Wake, Somerset, the ancestral home of the Speke family.[8]
The source of the Nile is settled, 1874–1877[edit]
In 1874–1877, Henry Stanley mounted a new expedition and took a boat along the entire shore of Lake Victoria; he established that Lake Tanganyika and the Nile were not connected in any way, and he explored the headwaters of Lake Edward. It was now proven that Speke had been right all along, and that the Nile flowed from Lake Victoria via Ripon Falls and Murchison Falls to Lake Albert and from there to Gondokoro.
It was in later years, however, that other explorers found that Lake Victoria is not the southernmost source of the Nile, rather it is the Kagera River that flows from the highlands of today's Rwanda and Burundi into the Lake across the Kagera Region of today's Tanzania.
Scientific works[edit]
Much of Speke's Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile is a description of the physical features of Africa's races, in whose condition he found "a strikingly existing proof of the Holy Scriptures."[2] Living alongside the negroes, Speke found a "superior race" of "men who were as unlike as they could be from the common order of the natives" due to their "fine oval faces, large eyes, and high noses, denoting the best blood of Abyssinia" – that is, Ethiopia.[2][15] This "race" comprised many tribes, including the Watusi (Tutsi). Speke described their physical appearances as having retained – despite the hair-curling and skin-darkening effects of intermarriage – "a high stamp of Asiatic feature, of which a marked characteristic is a bridged instead of bridgeless nose".[2][16]
Eponyms[edit]
Two species of African reptiles are named in his honor: Speke's hinge-back tortoise, Kinixys spekii; and Speke's sand lizard, Heliobolus spekii.[17] There is also the sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii).
Film[edit]
The film Mountains of the Moon (1990), starring Scottish actor Iain Glen as Speke, related the story of the Burton-Speke controversy, portrayed as having been unjustifiably incited by Speke's publisher to stimulate book sales.[18][19]
Biographies, books and articles about Speke[edit]
An obelisk dedicated to Speke stands in Kensington Gardens, London
Burton, Richard Francis (1872). "Captain Speke". Zanzibar. London: John Murray.
Grant, James A. (1864). A Walk Across Africa (London)
Harrison, William (1984). Burton and Speke (St Martins/Marek & W.H. Allen).
Jeal, Tim (2011). Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (Faber & Faber, London).
Llyod, Clare (1985). The Travelling Naturalists. Study of 18th Century Natural History — Includes Charles Waterton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Seebohm and Mary Kingsley.
Maitland, Alexander (1971). Speke (1971) (the only full-length biography).
Moorehead, Alan (1960). The White Nile (1960)
Sparrow-Niang, Jane (2014). Bath and the Nile Explorers: In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Burton and Speke's encounter in Bath, September 1864, and their 'Nile Duel' which never happened (Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath) ISBN 978-0-9544941-6-2
Wisnicki, Adrian S. (2008). "Cartographical Quandaries: The Limits of Knowledge Production in Burton’s and Speke’s Search for the Source of the Nile". History in Africa 35: 455-79.
Wisnicki, Adrian S. (2009). "Charting the Frontier: Indigenous Geography, Arab-Nyamwezi Caravans, and the East African Expedition of 1856-59". Victorian Studies 51.1 (Aut.): 103-37
See also[edit]
Speke's gazelle
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.2104, Speke of Jordans
^ Jump up to: a b c d Gourevitch, Philip (1999). We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories From Rwanda. Picador. ISBN 978-0-312-24335-7.
Jump up ^ John Speke: Race Theory
Jump up ^ Rogers, W.H. "Buckland Brewer", 1938, p.53
Jump up ^ BBC Historic Figures
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am Jeal, Tim (2011). Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-27777-3.
Jump up ^ Kollmann, Karl Paul (1899). The Victoria Nyanza. The Land, the Races and their Customs, with Specimens of Some of the Dialects. Translated by Henry Arthur Nesbitt. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
^ Jump up to: a b "Speke, John Hanning". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Jump up ^ Burton, R. F.; J. H. Speke (13 June 1859). "Explorations in Eastern Africa". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Blackwell Publishing. 3 (6): 348–358. doi:10.2307/1799169. JSTOR 1799169.
Jump up ^ Galton, Sir Francis; Spottiswoode, William; Markham, Sir Clements Robert, eds. (1863). "Twelfth Meeting, Monday Evening, 11 May 1863". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London. London: Royal Geographical Society. 7 (3): 108–110.
Jump up ^ Burton, R. F. (14 November 1864). "Lake Tanganyika, Ptolemy's Western Lake-Reservoir of the Nile". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Blackwell Publishing. 9 (1): 6–14. doi:10.2307/1799295. JSTOR 1799295.
Jump up ^ Dorothy Middleton, ‘Baker , Florence Barbara Maria, Lady Baker (1841–1916)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 Sept 2015
Jump up ^ Roy Bridges, Speke, John Hanning (1827–1864) (subscription or library card required), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006. Accessed 15 August 2008.
Jump up ^ Sly, Nicola (2010). A grim almanac of Somerset. Stroud: History Press. p. 32. ISBN 9780752458144.
Jump up ^ Journals of John Hanning Speke
Jump up ^ John Hanning Speke: Encyclopædia Britannica
Jump up ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Speke", p. 249).
Jump up ^ "Mountains Of The Moon". Cinema de Merde. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
Jump up ^ "Relocating Burton: Public and Private Writings on Africa". The Journal of African Travel Writing. University of North Carolina. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Hanning Speke.
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Speke, John Hanning.
Works by John Hanning Speke at Project Gutenberg
The Discovery Of The Source Of The Nile by John Hanning Speke
First Footsteps in East Africa by Richard Francis Burton
Works by or about John Hanning Speke at Internet Archive
Selected Bibliography of Works by John Hanning Speke.
Burtoniana.org has facsimiles of all of Speke's books, pamphlets and journal articles freely available online, as well as his (corrected) DNB entry, obituary and inquest report from The Times, and several portraits and photographs, together with material on his companion James Grant and the complete works of his former friend, Richard Francis Burton.
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