In September of 1914, Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton set out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic ...

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“Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and ...

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“His type is as normally average as the hot dog and pop at Coney Island. He is good looking without ...

“The Captain had gone, Commander Peary and I were alone (save for the four Esquimos), the same as we had ...

“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die.” -Theodore Roosevelt Sailing out of the New ...

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“Never confuse movement with action.” Nearly fifty years after his death, Ernest Hemingway remains a ...

Editor's note: Today as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of man's first steps on the moon, our thoughts ...