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Article: John Rae
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John Rae 1813-93, Scottish arctic explorer, b. Orkney Islands. A physician in the employ of the
Hudson's Bay Company
in N Canada, Rae made (1846-47) a journey of exploration from Fort Churchill to the Gulf of Boothia, which he described in his
Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea
(1850). In 1847 he joined Sir John Richardson's expedition in search of the lost party of Sir John
Franklin
, the British explorer; later (1851) he commanded a search party that crossed the tundra and explored part of Victoria Island. It was not ...
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Article: John Rae and Thorstein Veblen.(economists)
Journal of Economic Issues;
September 1, 2004 ;
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... ... command of a certain amount of the exertions of other men. --John Rae, Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political ... Theory of the Leisure Class ([1899] 1998) are found in John Rae's Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political ...
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