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At the moment of the unveiling of the Peary Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, on April 6, 1922. On the platform from right to left: The Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes; William Howard Taft, the Chief Justice of the United States, who was President of the United States when the North Pole was discovered, and upon whose recommendation to Congress the explorer was created Rear-Admiral; the Ambassador of France and Mme. Jusserand, Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, President of the National Geographic Society; the President of the United States and Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Robert E. Peary, Dr. E.W. Nelson, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, and Rev. Dr. Charles Wood. Partly concealed by the flag (at the right) is Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. [Rear Admiral Robert Perry (1856-1920), Arctic explorer, first to reach the North Pole (1909).] At the moment of the unveiling of the Peary Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, on April 6, 1922.  On the platform from right to left: The Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes; William Howard Taft, the Chief Justice of the United States, who was President of the United States when the North Pole was discovered, and upon whose recommendation to Congress the explorer was created Rear-Admiral; the Ambassador of France and Mme. Jusserand, Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, President of the National Geographic Society; the President of the United States and Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Robert E. Peary, Dr. E.W. Nelson, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, and Rev. Dr. Charles Wood.  Partly concealed by the flag (at the right) is Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy.  [Rear Admiral Robert Perry (1856-1920), Arctic explorer, first to reach the North Pole (1909).]
 
The Secretary of the Navy voicing the nation's appreciation of the achievements of Rear-Admiral Robert E. Peary. Discoverer of the North Pole (1909). The Secretary of the Navy voicing the nation's appreciation of the achievements of Rear-Admiral Robert E. Peary.
 
The Peary Memorial unveiled by the explorer's daughter.  On one of the several expeditions to the Far North when Mrs. Peary accompanied her husband, Marie Ahnighito Peary, affectionately known to the American public as the Snow Baby (now Mrs. Edward Stafford), was born, within the Arctic Circle and nearer the North Pole than any other white child.  Her brother, Robert E. Peary, Jr., stands at her left.  All the continents are carved in low relief on the granite globe. 
 
View of the Peary Memorial looking northward toward the amphitheater. View of the Peary Memorial looking northward toward the amphitheater.
 
Imperialism in Asia. Map of European, American, and Japanese colonial possessions in Asia at the start of World War I in 1914. Spheres of influence. Japan, Korea, Siam, Formosa/Taiwan, French Indo-China (Indochine), Burma, Malay, Nepal, India, China, Ceylon, Philippines, Mongolia, Sakhalin Island. Imperialism in Asia.  Map of European, American, and Japanese colonial possessions in Asia at the start of World War I in 1914.
 
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