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source excerpt: Edmund Percival Hillary was born in the small New Zealand town of Tuakau, south of Auckland, the middle of three children of Percival Hillary and his wife Gertrude Clark. Edmund was smaller than his peers (although

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On May 29, 1953, mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set foot atop Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain. They were the first ever to reach its 29,029-foot peak.

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source - NYT - 9/13/22 excerpt: Did bees need to be told about human affairs? Would they have any sort of opinion on the matter? But some beekeepers, backed by folklore historians, say “telling the bees” is a standard pract

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source - “The 10 best famous beekeepers” - The Guardian - 7/4/2014

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link to video trailer Ocean to Sky is a feature length documentary that recounts the experiences of New Zealand’s Edmund Hillary and his friends as they embark on an expedition in 1977 up the entire length of India’s sacred river Ganges

link to * Ocean to Sky* video review

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source - New Zealand History website

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