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Death of Sir Francis Galton, British anthropologist, explorer, eugenicist, statistician, and meteorologist, known for his pioneering studies of human intelligence, for devising the concept of correlation, and for creating the first weather map [more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Death of Sir Francis Galton, British anthropologist, explorer, eugenicist, statistician, and meteorologist, known for his pioneering studies of human intelligence, for devising the concept of correlation, and for creating the first weather map [more]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":124,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/drakes-circumnavigation-google-earth-flyover\/","url_meta":{"origin":1614,"position":0},"title":"Drake’s Circumnavigation: Google Earth Flyover","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"June 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I have just put the finishing touches to a Google Earth Flyover of Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the Globe. 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