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</v:shape><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Elephant","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>The Rocky Mountain Map Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and appreciation of maps and other items of cartographic interest. The Society was formed in 1991 and is based in Denver, Colorado.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Elephant","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Elephant","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#943634'>December 8, 2015 – Vincent Szilagyi<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#943634'>“Myths, Men and Monsters: Exploration and Cartography in Central Africa” </span></h1><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><table class=MsoTableGrid border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse;border:none'><tr><td width=253 valign=top style='width:189.9pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=204 height=211 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D10C0B.40FED0B0"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#943634'>Vincent Szilagyi<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#943634'>5:30 PM at Denver Public Library, Gates Room, Fifth Floor – Open to the Public<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=385 valign=top style='width:288.9pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=383 style='width:287.1pt'><tr style='height:367.5pt'><td width=3 valign=top style='width:2.5pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:367.5pt'></td><td width=373 valign=top style='width:280.1pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:367.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Since the beginning of recorded time, the source of the World's greatest river, the Nile, was shrouded in mystery. Expeditions sent by the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Macedonians, Romans, Arabs, French and others were thwarted by disease, animals, swamps, fierce tribes, pygmies and the blistering desert heat. The survivors of these failed attempts brought back fantastic stories of fearsome monsters, mystical kingdoms and giants. Legends sprung up that the Nile began at the feet of a mountain range so high it scraped the Moon, and so far away it could never be reached. It was not until the 1800s that explorers finally reached the headwaters of the Nile, and the story of what they found and how they got there is as intriguing and engaging a story as any in the history of exploration.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Vincent graduated from the University of Denver in 2013 with Degrees in History, Political Science and Geography. His senior thesis concerned the mapping of Central Africa and the Nile River in the 1850s to 1870s and the impacts this had on the nascent academic disciplines of Geography and Geology. Since 2014 Vincent has worked at the Philadelphia Print Shop West, one of the Nation's premier antique map and print galleries. When he is not working at the shop, Vincent does contract GIS and surveying work for the mining industry on the Western Slope. Vincent collects antique maps of the Nile River, as well as books, maps, and ephemera concerning the Scramble for Africa.<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>