Sentences with phrase «first voyage»

Researchers at the University of Southampton have captured unprecedented data about some of the coldest abyssal ocean waters on earth — known as Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW)-- during first voyage of the yellow robotic submersible known as Boaty McBoatface, which arrived back in the UK last week.

The trials, which took place in the Aegean Sea in mid-December, represented the vessel's first voyage in open water.

Even if the price tag is a deal breaker for most people, the MA770 is a lofty first voyage into speakers for Master & Dynamic, and one that checks all the boxes in terms of design, audio and ease of use.

Jefferson's Bourbon founder Trey Zoeller has a theory that recreating bourbon's first voyage from 150 years ago could impact the taste and maturation process.

Across the Sea: Europeans Explore the New World Looking for information and activities about the intrepid adventurers who first voyaged to the New World?

Thank heaven it didn't: When humans first voyaged to the moon, they took the world along.»

And Ben joins the crew for an illicit first voyage that goes spectacularly wrong, leaving Victor on the other side, while Reed, Ben, Sue and Johnny emerge with superpowers caused by altered DNA.

The Art Deco style was not limited to buildings on land; the ocean liner SS Normandie, whose first voyage was in 1935, featured Art Deco design, including a dining room whose ceiling and decoration were made of glass by Lalique.

Azamara Club Cruises has just announced the exciting first voyage of the Azamara Quest to Cuba, which arrived at Cuba's Sierra Maestra terminal on 31 March 2017.

That first voyage to Mars, however, would carry cargo but no people.

Its first voyage with the new rotor sail will take place Thursday evening.

But he did one thing right — he transported chile seeds back to Europe after his first voyage, which began the chile conquest of the rest of the world.

Christopher Columbus «discovered» chile peppers in the West Indies on his first voyage to the New World.

Christopher Columbus brought sweet potatoes to Europe after his first voyage to the New World in 1492.

In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed from the Spanish port of Palos de la Frontera on his first voyage in search of a westward sea route to the spice - producing lands of Asia.

by Dave DeWitt Christopher Columbus «discovered» chile peppers in the West Indies on his first voyage to the New World.

Manchester United legend Gary Neville took his first voyage into management earlier this month when he was appointed as head coach at Valencia.

The Schmidts gave Jenkins $ 2.5 million to get started; by 2013, a test craft had completed its first voyage from California to Hawaii, propelled by a 4.6 - meter - tall carbon fiber composite sail.

He had enjoyed excellent health until the age of 41, at the end of his first voyage to the New World.The nature of his illness is only partially known but seems to have involved an intermittent, though relentlessly progressive, arthritis that initially affected his legs more than his arms or hands.

This was borne out by his first voyage in 1768 on the Endeavour with James Cook, who was to observe the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun from the southern hemisphere to help to calculate planetary distances, while Banks collected biological specimens, the first from the South Pacific to be seen in England.

The «Earthrise» photo came to symbolize the leap humans had taken with the first voyage to another world.

South American sweet potatoes became a staple crop in Polynesia at least 500 years before Columbus's first voyage.

The oldest carbonized sample of the crop found by archaeologists in the Pacific dates to about 1000 C.E. — nearly 500 years before Columbus's first voyage.

Yet an arguably more epochal event occurred the previous year, when the crew of Apollo 8 — astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders — embarked on the first voyage to lunar orbit.

Known to humanity since the dawn of history (and to Europeans since their first voyages to the Southern hemisphere) the Magellanic Clouds have remained an enigma to date.

Comet Siding Spring — an Oort Cloud comet that may contain material from the formation of the solar system some 4.6 billion years ago — was making its first voyage through the inner solar system.

NASA's 10th administrator, Sean O'Keefe, said of Webb: «He took our nation on its first voyages of exploration, turning our imagination into reality.

It is not a guarantee to meet the perfect partner on the first voyage.

When you pay more for an automobile than it cost Columbus to make his first voyage to America, that's politics.

Their personal motives for embarking on such a journey, like Darwin's first voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle, remain known only to God.

As the older Nickerson recounts his first voyage as a 14 - year - old orphan looking to work at sea, he struggles to hold back the tears as he remembers the despair the men faced and the atrocities they went through to survive once their ship was decimated by the whale.

After discussing it with others that saw it I came to this conclusion - this would have been a far superior film had it been told from the point of view of the «greenhorn» who makes his first voyage with seasoned whalers as they venture out into the vast oceans in search of whales and their gold - like oil.

«Last Sail, First Voyage» focuses on our villain Blackbeard.

This is our first voyage back to the Altmeri motherland since The Elder Scrolls: Arena, and we arrive as Queen Ayrenn opens up the Summerset borders to foreigners — something we can all safely expect to get a lot of crap about from the haughty natives.

· Christopher Columbus» first voyage to the New World would only take 16 hours and 25 minutes today compared to 2 months and 9 days in 1492 — a 99.02 % decrease in travel time.

The biggest challenge the PVS faced on its first voyage to Tahiti was finding a suitable navigator, as native navigational techniques had been almost completely lost to history.

«Look outside as you speed through,» the conductor tells Cora before she embarks on her first voyage, «and you'll find the true face of America.»

Morris» enthralling saga of the Sephardic diaspora focuses on the crypto - Jews of the American Southwest and their European ancestors, reaching back to Luis de Torres, a converso interpreter on Columbus» first voyage, and featuring several courageous women.

Although I am not quite sure why I applied for the Fellowship I'm looking forward to travelling, although indeed I am not a traveller and my first voyage out to New Zealand when I was nine years old, in 1950, gave me enough experience, I felt, to last a lifetime.

It ended up in the collection of famed naturalist Joseph Banks (who accompanied Cook on his first voyage) and, according to this book, was then given by Banks to his mistress, Mary Burnett a naturalist and gifted botanical artist (who the book jacket bills as the enigmatic «Miss B»)... If you enjoy intelligent historical mysteries you should take a close look at The Conjurer's Bird.

Did you know that Christopher Columbus and some of his ship's crew said they saw a flying ship crash into the sea while on his first voyage to America?

The greatest early surge in gold refining followed the first voyage of Columbus.

Six paddlers, including company owner JP Parrish, took «Ka Makani «O Maha`ulepu» for its first voyage and then dropped an offering in the ocean before returning to shore.

Christopher Columbus encountered magnificent frigatebirds when passing the Cape Verde Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492.

The first voyage begins on June 14 with stops in Italy, France, and Spain.

Although mutiny terminated his first voyage, he succeeded on a later voyage in 1792 in bringing the breadfruit to the Caribbean, but it was not able to replace the plantain as a staple food of the area.

Most historians agree that Long Island was the third island Columbus sailed to during his first voyage of discovery.

There are several excellent museums, notably the Naval Museum, which is housed in a recreation of one of the ships used in Columbus» first voyage to the Americas.