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Not especially keen swimmers, they used their mousing skills to secure passage on world-traveling ships piloted by merchants and explorers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

But some - including rival explorers - have expressed scepticism that this could be a plane, let alone Earhart's.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

"Humans are natural explorers, and with them come their voices, their memories … and their microbes," said Prabal Saxena, a planetary scientist who led the study from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

Not a very imaginative lot, those Spanish explorers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Indeed, he had read so much about Polar explorers that he could name all of them and tell you what each had done.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater


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