Happy Birthday, NGS!

by Alan Mairson on January 13, 2010

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January 13, 1888: Thirty-three explorers and scientists gathered at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC, to organize "a society for the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge."


The National Geographic Society turns 122 years old today.

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≡  Founders @ the Cosmos Club via National Geographic—Deutschland

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