Sentences with phrase «early explorers who»

But it was Columbus and other early explorers who introduced peppers to a welcoming European market.

That parts of Antarctica have become too warm for Adélie penguins would surely have astounded earlier explorers who suffered so greatly from the cold, and who marveled at the resilience, and eccentricities, of these seabirds.

Not exact matches

Who could have known in those early days, that by 2017, a landscape once loomed over by companies like Microsoft (Internet Explorer) and Netscape (Navigator) would fractionalize and give way to totally new players like Google (Chrome)?

Meyer Lemons get their name from the agricultural explorer Frank N. Meyer who worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the early 1900s and brought this citrus hybrid back from China.

The New Mexican landraces were developed from seeds brought from central Mexico by the early Spanish explorers who settled towns such as San Juan and Santa Fe in northern New Mexico after 1600.

A speedier trip to the outer planets would be a huge advantage, says Green, who thinks a fully funded Europa explorer could launch as early as 2022.

One of the continent's earliest explorers, James Clark Ross — the Englishman who discovered the Ross Ice Shelf — remarked on the stirring sight of Adélies arcing in and out of the water during the migration to their home colonies.

An explorer named Frederick Cook claimed to have gotten there a year earlier — the controversy over who was actually first continues today — but Peary, assisted by fellow Bowdoin alumnus Donald B. MacMillan, documented his trip more extensively, and many historians give his mission the nod.

An illustration of this comes from some early explorers in the U.S. who died after consuming a diet of rabbits.

It was the reaction of many who, earlier this year, saw The Lost City of Z, James Gray's arty period epic about an early - 20th - century British explorer searching for a new civilization in the Amazon.

They are of Cadillac, LaSalle, Marquette and Gabriel Richard, the early French explorers who discovered Michigan and helped found Detroit.

That afternoon we were the only vessel in the Anchorage and we decided to take the hike up to the monument for Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo the early 1500's explorer who was rumored to have died and been buried on one of the Channel Islands.

We were very aware that we were travelling in the footsteps of those that had gone before us - the warring warrior tribes, the explorers, the adventurers and the brave early settlers who had fought their way across the continent, carving this magnificent country out of the wilderness.

Centuries later the Mayan ruins were rediscovered by early explorers and archeologists who found them hidden away in the jungles of southern Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Belize.

Coming upon impressive abandoned cities covered by vegetation in the middle of the jungle caused early archaeologists and explorers to wonder: who built these spectacular cities only to abandon them?

In my backpack is Louise Bourgeois, the Secret of the Cells, revised and expanded for waiting and How to be an Explorer of the World, a Portable Art / Life Museum for walks with my husband who has early onset AIDS / HIV Dementia

(My dad told me about explorer / geographer David Thompson, who traveled through Ontario in the early 1800s and found the water already forming ice in early October — two months earlier than it does now.)