• April 9, 2021. Ralph Plaisted at National Archives and Records Administration Pitzl, Gerald Rudolph. "Diary and Log Book of the Plaisted Polar Expedition"...
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  • Plaisted is a surname and occasional masculine given name. People with the name Plaisted include: David Plaisted, American professor of computer science...
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    first complete land expedition to reach the North Pole was in 1968 by Ralph Plaisted, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, using snowmobiles...
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    first undisputed overland expedition to reach the North Pole, led by Ralph Plaisted and including Bombardier's own Jean-Luc Bombardier, reaching the pole...
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  • Charlie Paton Fiann Paul Robert Edwin Peary Yakov Permyakov Eric Philips Ralph Plaisted Fedot Popov Richard Profit Vasili Pronchishchev Maria Pronchishcheva...
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  • August 3, 1958 First to reach North Pole by surface travel (on Ski-Doo): Ralph Plaisted. April 19, 1968 First to reach the North Pole by dogsled: team led by...
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  • at a Heritage auction in 2009. In 1968, American insurance salesman Ralph Plaisted and three companions were the first confirmed expedition to reach the...
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    in polar orbit; eventually returned 22,952 cloud cover photos 1968: Ralph Plaisted and three others reach the North Pole by snowmobile and are the first...
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  • Congo). In 1967, Kuralt and a CBS camera crew spent eight weeks with Ralph Plaisted in his first attempt to reach the North Pole by snowmobile, which resulted...
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  • Australian ornithologist, conservationist, and author (b. 1916) 2008 – Ralph Plaisted, American explorer (b. 1927) 2009 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and...
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    explorations stimulated by the Cold War context. On April 19, 1968, Ralph Plaisted reached the North Pole via snowmobile, the first surface traveler known...
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    USS Skate became the first submarine to surface at the North Pole. Ralph Plaisted and his three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier...
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  • Guthrey, 92, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Christchurch (1968–1971). Ralph Plaisted, 80, American Arctic explorer, natural causes. Evan Tanner, 37, American...
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    starting point for a number of attempts to reach the North Pole, e.g. Ralph Plaisted and others. During the International Geophysical Year of 1957–58, it...
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    "most of the media considered Plaisted's trek more of a stunt than the actual achievement that it was... it was Plaisted, the amateur explorer and insurance...
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  • delivered supplies to a number of notable arctic expeditions, including Ralph Plaisted in 1967 and 1968. He retired from his aviation career in 1972. The Canadian...
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    Owen Brewster (redirect from Ralph Brewster)
    Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888 – December 25, 1961) was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, served as the 54th Governor...
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    Boutelle, Harris M. Plaisted, John G. Utterback, and Samuel Thatcher William D. Williamson, Harris M. Plaisted, Frederick W. Plaisted, and Israel Washburn...
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    Maine, which supported the career of his political nemesis and successor Ralph Owen Brewster. Maine State Senate – 1909–1910 Maine House of Representatives...
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     626–627. "Frederick William Plaisted". National Governors Association. Retrieved March 3, 2023. "Hon. Frederick W. Plaisted of Augusta Sworn In As the...
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  • days later he returned to Albuquerque. That same day, 78-year-old Irving Plaisted, originally from Minnesota, asked Crump for directions. The man let Crump...
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  • in 1872 after failing to win the Democratic nomination. Maine Harris M. Plaisted Greenback January 13, 1881 January 3, 1883 Also endorsed by the Democrats...
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  • (May) Lars Anderson Saucy Romantic Adventures Zarnak 1936 (August) Max Plaisted "The Plunder Plague" (Thrilling Wonder Stories) The Girl with the X-ray...
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  • 1905 Barclay Bailes 79 29 1905–1909 1905 Sam Davison 2 0 1905 1905 Ridley Plaisted 5 8 1905–1907 1906 Frank Abbott 31 4 1906–1907, 1912 1906 Jim Neylan 1...
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    Pintz Nick Pippenger Tomaž Pisanski Gilles Pisier Toniann Pitassi David Plaisted Vera Pless Michael D. Plummer Amir Pnueli Henry O. Pollak George Pólya...
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  • host, author, and former New York State judge and politician Harris M. Plaisted, former governor of Maine Redfield Proctor, former Governor of Vermont...
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    Klara Nahrstedt, Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Computer Science and director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory David Plaisted, faculty at the...
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  • on these foundations belonged to Ebenezer Plaisted, E. Emery, J. Emery, and W. Simpson. The Ebenezer Plaisted house was built sometime before 1800. Just...
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  • of Maine, as was another Civil War general from Bangor, Harris Merrill Plaisted. Cyrus Hamlin, who commanded a regiment of African-American troops, and...
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