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Who is David Livingston?

David Livingstone was born in 1813 in Blantare, Scotland. At the age of ten, he went to work in a cotton-spinning factory and bought a primer in Latin with the first money he earned. Despite the exhausting work, he managed to attend night school and also studied a lot at home. When he was 20 years old, he was influenced by the descriptions of missionaries he read in Asia and decided to devote his life to alleviating the fate of people who lived in extreme need and poverty. He went to study at a college in Glasgow and, following the results of his final examinations, was admitted to the London Missionary Society. In London, he also managed to complete his medical education.

In addition to medicine, he studied theology, botany, zoology and astronomy - sciences that were to be useful to him in the future. In 1841, Dr. Livingston arrived in the city of Cape Town and spent the next 30 years of his life traveling along and across the entire African continent. During this time he managed to make many discoveries. Among them, the most significant are the discovery of the mighty Victoria Falls and exploration of the upper reaches of the Congo River. His meager earnings and money from the sale of his books were barely enough for him to equip and finance new expeditions.

Livingston's last journey ended tragically. He was weakened by tropical fever, and the native porters left him alone without food and medicine. The rescue expedition sent under the leadership of N.M. Stanley, managed to find him. Stanley tried to convince Livingston to return with him, but he refused and, barely gaining strength, went west in search of the source of the Nile. On the way, he fell ill with dysentery with complications. His health continued to deteriorate, and on May 1, 1873, Dr. Livingston died.

The Aboriginal helpers who remained loyal to him took care to preserve his remains. They carried the body of a brave traveler across half of Africa and delivered it to the nearest English colony. Then it was transported to England and buried with honor in the cemetery in the famous Westminster Abbey.

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When Zeus, angry with the people of the Copper Age, decided to destroy all life and sent a flood to the earth, the only righteous people who were allowed to escape were Deucalion, the son of Prometheus and the oceanides Clymene, and his wife Pyrrha, the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. Deucalion, on the advice of Prometheus, built an ark in the form of a large box, on which he and Pyrrha escaped during the nine-day flood that destroyed mankind. On the tenth day, the water began to subside and the ark landed on Mount Parnassus, or, as some believe, Mount Etna.

It is also said that Deucalion was informed of the appearance of the earth by a dove released by him. Having descended safely to earth and made sacrifices to Zeus, Deucalion received advice from him on how to revive the human race (according to another version, Themis gave advice). Having wrapped their heads and loosened their belts, Deucalion and Pyrrha were supposed to throw the "bones of the mother" over their heads. Since Deucalion and Pyrrha had different mothers and both had already died by that time, they decided that the deity meant the earth, the universal mother of people, whose bones are stones lying on the river bank. Deucalion and Pyrrha carried out the order.

From the stones thrown by Deucalion, men appeared, from the stones of Pyrrha - women. Deucalion and Pyrrha also had children, among them Amphictyon, famous for entertaining Dionysus and being the first to mix water and wine. However, their eldest son Ellin, the founder of the Greek tribes, is most famous.

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