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Noun: Stanley  stan-lee
  1. Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
    - Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands
     
  2. United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
    - Francis Edgar Stanley

Type of: adventurer, artificer, discoverer, explorer, inventor, journalist, journo [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Stanley, New Brunswick

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