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Stanley
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United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
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francis edgar stanley
Other meanings
2. noun
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)
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