Sentences with phrase «famed sea captain»
Some eight thousand years the Kwakwaka» wakw First Nation settled what is now called Hardy Bay, named after the famed sea captain Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy.
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Twenty two years since the company rose to fame on the back of Donkey Kong Country — a similarly piratical game brimming with bananas, palm trees, and a pirate captain by the name of King K. Rool — the idea that Microsoft and Rare were themselves setting out atop their lovingly rendered sea, chasing tall tales and ghost stories of the developer's golden days as if they were some long - buried, magical treasure was heartbreakingly poetic.
The song tells the tragic tale of John Franklin, the famed British sea captain and adventurer who vanished after setting out in 1845 in search of the Northwest Passage — with that vanishing triggering an astonishing burst of British and American Arctic exploration aimed at least in part at finding him and his crew.