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Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston GCMG KCB (12 June 1858 – 31 July 1927) was a British explorer, botanist, artist, colonial administrator, and linguist who travelled widely across Africa to speak some of the languages spoken by people on that continent. He published 40 books on subjects related to the continent of Africa and was one of the key players in the Scramble for Africa that occurred at the end of the 19th century.

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Harry Johnston

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Hamilton Johnston. Wikisource has original works by or about: Harry Johnston Works by Harry Johnston at Project Gutenberg Full text of Johnston's book British...

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Okapi

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[citation needed] When the British special commissioner in Uganda, Sir Harry Johnston, discovered some Pygmy inhabitants of the Congo being abducted by a...

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Ivy Meeropol

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aide to Congressman Harry Johnston (D-Florida). Meeropol worked as a speechwriter and legislative aide to Congressman Harry Johnston (D-Florida), and then...

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Henry Johnston

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Munro-Butler-Johnstone (1837–1902), British author and Conservative Party politician Harry Johnston (disambiguation) Henry Johnson (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

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Waldorf Astoria New York

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Oscar's Brasserie in late 2015. Sir Harry's Bar, also located in the hotel, is named after British explorer Sir Harry Johnston. The Waldorf Astoria has been...

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Anglo

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delegates of the peace conference. Bern. p. 7. Retrieved 15 July 2013. Sir Harry Johnston, the former Governor General of Central British Africa said after the...

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Northern Rhodesia

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Nyasaland, and in 1890 the British government's Colonial Office sent Harry Johnston to this area, where he proclaimed a protectorate, later named the British...

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British Central Africa Protectorate

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Rhodesia was formed as a separate protectorate with its own Administrator Harry Johnston, who became Sir Henry at the end of his term, was Commissioner and Consul-General...

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Kampala

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behalf of Buganda with Sir Harry Johnston, who signed on behalf of the British government. This agreement with Sir Harry Johnston created new land tenures...

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International Society of Cryptozoology

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unknown to the European scientific community until the English explorer Harry Johnston sent to London an okapi skin which received international attention...

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Hamites

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Ankole and the Bahiru [sic]. In his work The Uganda Protectorate (1902, Harry Johnston claims that the Hamites are "Negroid rather than Negro" and that Negroes...

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Mount Kilimanjaro

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According to English geographer Halford Mackinder and English explorer Harry Johnston, Rebmann in 1848 was the first European to report the existence of Kilimanjaro...

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Viverridae

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57–61. Thomas, O. (1901). "On the more notable Mammals obtained by Sir Harry Johnston in the Uganda Protectorate". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of...

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Flag of Liberia

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Flag of the Republic of Maryland from 1854 to 1857 Flag proposed by Harry Johnston in 1906 Flag of the Armed Forces of Liberia Liberia is subdivided into...

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British diaspora in Africa

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philologist and explorer William Lloyd (1802–1881), Anglican clergyman Harry Johnston (1858–1927), explorer and civil servant Dick King (1813–1871), transport...

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Harry Herron Johnston

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Harry Herron Johnston (January 22, 1888 – October 18, 1970) was an American football and basketball coach. He was the 18th head football coach at Doane...

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