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Also Known As Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Born June 3, 1910 • Addis Ababa • Ethiopia
Died August 24, 2003 (aged 93) • England

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Sir Richard Burton
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley, detail of a portrait by Sir Hubert von Herkomer; in the City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
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Sir John Franklin
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Mount Everest: 1921 expedition
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