Sentences with phrase «ancient landing place»
Now, as the ship's master, Christopher Jones, eased the Mayflower into its dockage at Rotherhithe, an ancient landing place two miles down the Thames from London that had become a huddle of boatyards, sailors» cottages, and merchants» warehouses, the financial backers eagerly awaited news about the one thing they cared about most: what saleable cargo the ship had brought back from the New World.
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If it gives us a sense that we come from nowhere, that our past is inchoate and our tradition shallow, so that we begin to doubt our own identity and some of the sensitive among us flee to more ancient lands with more structured traditions, it also gives us our openness to the future, our sense of unbounded possibility, our willingness to start again in a new place, a new occupation, a new ideology.
At the very moment when the pre-Colombian world had come to a drastic end, a totally unsuspected irruption took place in 1531 when, in the ancient site of the goddess Tonanzin, a Mestizo woman appeared to announce a new era for «all the inhabitants of this land.»
The list of places where NASA's next Mars rover, due to launch in 2020, could land has been narrowed down to three: Jezero crater, the dry remains of an ancient lake; Northeast Syrtis, which used to host hot springs; and the Columbia Hills, previously explored by NASA's Spirit rover.
The intrepid robotic explorer successfully completed its primary scientific objective when it discovered strong evidence early on in its mission that a place called Yellowknife Bay near its landing site, constitutes an ancient dried - out lake bed which was once filled with drinkable liquid water billions of years ago and could have sustained life — if any were present.
If the Mars 2020 rover is enabled to land in a place where there might be salty water - or ancient salty water - and were to discover evidence of life, perhaps we would accelerate that schedule.
Battle - scarred lands and peoples, ancient powers at war, star - crossed loves and hints of racial and refugee themes give this a solid place on library shelves.»
You can walk in the footsteps of the ancient Mayans and rogue pirates who landed here looking for a place to hide for the European authorities.
Sicily, a land of ancient culture, is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, a blend of history, art and natural beauty to make every place «unique».
Check out the country's most popular places for couples to revel and their best hotels and resorts in this diverse and sultry land of... MORE sun - drenched beaches, turquoise bays, tropical jungles, and cities both ancient and new.
Local indigenous tour guides take visitors through places like Mossman Gorge, where the custodians of the land, the Kuku Yalanji, still have a prevalent, ancient culture to share.
Taking place in ancient Europe, the game's aesthetics fit the dark times that have fallen upon the land, as Thistle must work to free the Animal Gods and save the world.
Shadow of the Colossus takes place entirely within a fantasy world referred to as the Forbidden Lands, a remotely isolated peninsula filled with ancient architecture, canyons, dark forests and grassy regions.
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«In our film visits to faraway lands, we have found that every PEOPLE has a wealth of ancient lore — and every PLACE a...
Ancient Scottish curse placed from afar on the stretch of land now occupied by Heathrow Airport.»
I am writing from the highlands of central India, the most ancient place in an ancient land.
But Blair carries a unique significance: it is a testament to over one hundred years of resistance to the coal industry, which has placed profit over land, human life and the most ancient mountain range on the planet.